Is gentrification killing Kowloon?
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 —...
Category: Asia
It’s time to act on the media crackdown in Malaysia
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...
The Invisible Holocaust: North Korea’s Horrible Mimicry
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...
Indonesia’s drug obsession is only making things worse
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...
India’s blooming tech scene is no red-headed stepchild
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...
The Mermaid’s US Distributors Ignore This International Blockbuster
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...
How A New Generation of Graphic Novels Are Portraying Migration
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...
London Film Festival 2015 Dispatch 1: Der Nactmahr, Live From New York & Sunrise
“Der Nactmahr’s” early swimming pool set piece exerts an audacious ear drubbing of sub-bass pressure, a sonic bombardment of ultra-sleek techno that threatens to strobe the viewer out of their...
Review: Attack On Titan
In the live action adaptation of the popular manga series “Attack On Titan” the scraps of flesh that make up the last surviving members of humanity have been cowering in fear behind three...
Indian Summers: An Indian Downton Abbey?
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...