Asian Geographic - April 2018

Here, women care for the home, which is shared with livestock. Toilets might be next to animal pens. Clothes aren’t always spotl ...

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01 A village classroom. Few Yi send their children to school, and those that can afford it often prioritise the education of boy ...

CLAUDIA XIAOLI LEE is a fellow in Applied Photography (FRPS) of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The Taiwanese p ...

Medical practitioners across the ancient world often came up with novel remedies to heal people’s ailments – resulting in a mix ...

This traditional Chinese therapy was believed to cleanse the body of trapped waste and bring fresh blood flow to sore and stiff ...

Myanmar, despite the Buddha’s encouragement to abstain from intoxicating substances, is home to a dizzying array of homemade alc ...

HOW TO: DIY RICE WINE Rice wine has always been beloved across Asia, with every country boasting a signature spirit Other Cultur ...

Strands of red and yellow thread sway in the wind as they dry on clotheslines along the roadside. Qur’anic verses blare over spe ...

above At the Raksha Bandhan festival, sisters often tie an ornate kalava on their brother’s wrist for spiritual protection Kalav ...

As the saying goes, beauty is pain. The forebears of the formulas on today’s makeup market were some truly unusual ingredients – ...

NECK Perfumes were made from flowers like lilies, lotuses and chrysanthemums. People also burned incense candles in their bedroo ...

The shepherds of the Himalayas are just over a decade into a new tradition built on rocky foundations, for the rare fungi they h ...

A Layap cleans and prepares harvested cordyceps for sale. One kilo can command up to USD42,000 ...

A heaving storm lashes at the bent backs of 200 hopefuls as they scrabble at the earth. Crawling on all fours under pouring skie ...