Asian Geographic - 08.2018

Today’s barbers might be ex-soldiers or unemployed Vietnamese scraping a living together, but they share the same humble beginni ...

HERITAGE While top athletes duke it out in Jakarta stadiums, Indonesia’s agrarian backwaters have their own versions of sport en ...

PACU JAWI: (Fast bulls) West Sumatra, Tanah Datar regency WHEN: 11 months a year, one month in each of 11 sub-districts WHERE: 3 ...

A few days after that, the news reached Malacca that the English were going to Java to fight. About two or three months after we ...

ILLUSTRATION ADAPTED FROM SHUTTERSTOCK bear the smell of durians. A moment later he called the Sepoy, who was guarding the door, ...

NATIVE NARRATIVE Indonesia’s lingua franca defies the odds. Instead of selecting the vernacular of its Dutch colonisers or a maj ...

above Indonesian dancers perform the caci, a traditional dance from Labuan Bajo, Flores left Two women from Praing village fetch ...

feature | aSian gameS Playing for Power The words “Asian Games” most often conjure up images of athletes engaged in daring sport ...

A performance at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea ...

Politics and sports will always mix. Te x t Rachel Genevieve Chia Photos various contributors Or, at least, that’s one view Indo ...

PHOTO © JOSE DURAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ...

1913 The Far Eastern Championship Games (FECG) is formed and gains Olympic support 1934 FECG is dissolved. The Western Asiatic G ...

1970 GANEFO is dissolved over hosting issues. Indonesia is reinstated in the Asiad 1973 China is admitted into the Asian Games F ...

Sukarno then went on to create the short-lived Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) to directly challenge the Olympics. The ...

above Japanese players celebrate their gold medal baseball win at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima Chinese representation at th ...

Despite its more humble beginnings, the Asian games has grown to become the region’s biggest and most prestigious sports meet, s ...

ILLUSTRATION ADAPTED FROM SHUTTERSTOCK China has the highest number of gold medals to date: 1,355 India and Japan are the only t ...

Sepak takraw – also known as kick volleyball – has always been a regular feature of the Asian Games. Its origins are hotly conte ...

“The sport... aims to promote and foster a spirit of camaraderie, friendship and unity among athletes and officials” Abdul Halim ...

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