In the early hours of Tuesday morning, 19 men and women were stabbed to death, and 25 others wounded, in the Tsukui Yamayuri-En centre for disabled people in Sagamihara near Tokyo, Japan. The...
My mother never forced me to speak Cantonese. Despite spending the bulk of my childhood in Seattle and then Texas, my mother feared for my English. While she continued to speak to me in Cantonese...
For many years China has exploited the billions of dollars worth of mineral and oil deposits in Tibet with complete disregard for the local environment and areas of religious significance. Meanwhile,...
For many westerners living in Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula has long been referred to as the “Dark Side”. Across the harbor from more “expat friendly” neighborhoods on Hong Kong Island —...
It is hard to believe that more than a year has passed since the 1MDB scandal, in which nearly a billion dollars went missing from a Malaysian state-owned development company and, allegedly, turned...
Entire generations of families imprisoned. Food so scarce that starvation is barely a week away. Actions, words, even beliefs monitored by guards in tall watchtowers, fingers itching over the...
When Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, was elected as President of Indonesia in late 2014, the world was enthralled. He was expected to be different — the first President in the nation's...
Even as you read this article, any information I can offer is already becoming obsolete. India is one of the fastest-growing ecosystems I have ever seen and it would be foolish of me to try to...
Stephen Chow’s movie, The Mermaid, has reached rather mythic box office proportions. As of Saturday, March 5th, this weird and whimsical rom-com eco-parable (don’t forget slapstick physical...
Graphic Journalism is emerging as one of the most compelling ways to talk about an urgent issue: migration. From Persepolis to Vietnamerica, authors are creating stories where the political history...
