Asian_Geographic_Issue_4_2017

The king of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, has been king for less than a year, inheriting the crown on the death of his father, ...

Another tiny monarchy, perched on the northern shore of Borneo, Malaysia is – to give it its full name – the Nation of Brunei, t ...

Emperor of the Rising Sun { JaPan } The world’s oldest continuous hereditary monarchy is in Japan. Emperor Akihito, the reigning ...

62 The current emir of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan IMAGE © GETTY IMA ...

SOPHIE IBBOTSON is an international business consultant and founder of Maximum Exposure Limited. She is also the author of five ...

IMAGE © ZUNAR cover story ...

Te x t Mangai Balasegaram Pens Under Pressure Malaysian cartoonist Zunar’s drawings often ridicule controversial laws like the S ...

above Ai Weiwei’s “Forever” sculpture. The artwork refers to a brand of bicycles mass- manufactured in Shanghai since 1940 that ...

below Artist and dissident Ai Weiwei’s piece called S.A.C.R.E.D. – an installation that gives viewers a very literal look at his ...

68 One of Badiucao’s cartoons showing a VPN (virtual private network) as a ladder to help Internet users “scale the Great Firewa ...

recent political turmoil – military intervention, the king’s death and street protests. Manit Sriwanichpoom, who uses photograph ...

and threatened the artist, and demanded that he remove some of his cartoons, which they deemed “offensive” for insulting their l ...

“I believe that in a country where artists, designers, cartoonists and satirists have been censored, arrested and charged in cou ...

WITH AN ESTIMATED 100 MILLION SHARKS SLAUGHTERED EVERY YEAR, WE TAKE A LOOK AT HOW COUNTRIES’ PRACTICES AND POLICIES ARE IMPACTI ...

participants had given up shark fin within the previous three years. This signals a gradual cultural shift away from the traditi ...

But can countries counter the overfishing of sharks? Many nations have implemented restrictions on the trade of certain endanger ...

DATA SOURCED FROM WWF, THE HUFFINGTON POST notably for larger companies who acquire the majority of catches: “If commercial fish ...

Even then, implementation is not always effective: Six out of the 20 nations have no breakdown of shark species when they are la ...

recording shark data with Harmonised System (HS) Codes (developed by the World Customs Organization and used to classify goods g ...

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