Asian Geographic - 08.2018

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08 Early-rising customers get watches repaired at a shop. Though huge malls now boast upscale brands, locals still prefer old-ti ...

ROBERT LIE is an Indonesian travel photographer and an Artiste Federation Internationale de L’Art Photographique (FIAP). His awa ...

MOST POLICIES DECIDED VIA VOTING Member states must HELP ONE ANOTHER during national disasters and terrorist attacks The EU Sing ...

ASEAN Founded: 1967 Member States: 10 Population: 634 million GDP: USD2.8 trillion Growth rate: 5.3% Main Trading Partners: Chin ...

Rife with symbolism, coloured with meaning, few things characterise a nation’s self-image as richly as its national flags and fl ...

Myanmar Flag: Designed 2010 The yellow stands for unity, green for agriculture, and red for courage. A white star symbolises uni ...

To get a drink the way you like it at the Epic Arts Café – a coffee spot amid farms and colonial French architecture in sleepy K ...

lEft Epic Encounters performers rehearse a scene from Come Back Brighter, choreographed by a Khmer dancer abovE Students with di ...

Video games have long dominated screens across Asia, but their inclusion in this year’s Asiad have transformed this humble form ...

2018 E-sports are announced as a demonstration event at the Asian Games in Indonesia. Six titles confirmed 2008 The Internationa ...

If you’re a thief, you don’t ring up law enforcement, promise a share of the loot, and compliment their work. But that’s exactly ...

Named after Sabah’s first governor and gazetted in May 2016 – following 13-year-long negotiations with stakeholders, including 8 ...

Remember seeing an elephant with tusks so long they kissed the ground? Probably not. These majestic specimens and their precious ...

35 Woolly mammoths – the Ice Age giants that capture our imagination in movies and books – live on today in the rainforests of S ...

Of the 45 nations competing in the quadrennial Asian Games, only nine have borne the honour – and the cost – of hosting the worl ...

1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 cost of the games: 2026 USD842m (Nagoya, Japan)* 2022 No estimate available (Hangzh ...

Downtown of the Vietnamese capital. It’s early morning, but there’s already a commotion: vendors being chased off the pavement b ...