Asian Geographic - April 2018

LESTER V. LEDESMA is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has been showcased in the Chobi Mela Festival of Light, the Sin ...

PHOTO © RAM PAUDEL feature | RAUTE Bir Bahadur Shahi, one of the oldest Raute in the community, holds his little grandchild. Rau ...

Kings of the Dwindling Forest Nepal’s last hunting tribe subsists on primates as their main meal, a menu choice that’s quickly s ...

God said to set the screaming monkey free – Text and Photos Ram Paudel at least, that’s what the Raute hunters believe. Though t ...

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feature | raute Raj Bahadur Shahi, a Raute hunter, poses in traditional clothing ...

ï Kitap Shahi dons the colourful jewellery typical of Raute women ...

feature | raute pRE 17Th cEnTURy The Raute claim to be descended from a prince of the Sahi Thakuri kingdom 1981 The Nepal govern ...

After a successful hunt, the butchered animal is divvied up among specific social groups What’s the best way to trick a langur i ...

At harvest time, farmers owning nearby rice and corn fields offer a special deal to their hunter neighbours: Every monkey killed ...

RAM PAUDEL is a Nepalese photographer based in Germany. He has a degree in photography and media from Bielefeld University, and ...

PHOTO © JEREMY MEEK PHOTO © SINGAPORE BOOK COUNCIL AND BEN CHIA The writing and publishing industry in Singapore received a boos ...

Citizens of 80 countries – including China, Singapore, Japan, India and Indonesia – will now be able to enter Qatar visa-free an ...

A typical courtship in modern Metro Manila might feature texting as much as any other smartphone-loving Asian city, but its olde ...

DATA SOURCES: FILIPINOS TODAY, JUSTIN CABALES, RABINDRANATH POLITO, INQUIRER, FLORENTINE AGUILAR, ASIAN JOURNAL USA, PHILIPPINE ...

Precious Conventions Mongolia boasts a unique blend of traditions born of the country’s varied environments: the steppe, the des ...

A caravan of nomads in Mongolia’s Uvs province ...

Its winters are among Earth’s coldest, and the massive summer dust storms offer scant respite. Nothing much grows on these barre ...

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But camels aren’t completely desert-proof, and females only give birth to one calf every second year (after a 13-month pregnancy ...