The Seventh Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
The seventh annual Asia House Festival of Asian Literature – still the only Festival in the UK celebrating the writing of Asia and Asians, from the Eastern Mediterranean to the …
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Sabah Under Siege
18 March 2013 With Malaysia’s general elections hotly anticipated, the one issue that has grabbed Malaysians’ attention is the siege in Sabah. It has also been the main point of …
Read MoreChina Looks to Eurozone to Bridge Urban Rural Divide
As the Chinese economy become increasingly finance led, an unprecedented influx of rural dwellers are flocking to urban centres. However, lax bureacracy and apathetic legislation has meant that many of …
Read MoreFukushima’s Uncertain Legacy
Two years later and shock waves from Japan’s 2011 triple calamity are still being felt by the residents of Fukushima, the latest of which relate to predicitons of a huge …
Read MoreLondon-Educated Author Wins Man Asian Literary Prize
It was announced yesterday in Hong Kong that Malaysia’s Tan Twan Eng is the winner of the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize, currently the most prestigious prize awarded to fiction …
Read MoreCheaper Cost of Living is the Ultimate Measure of Success
Nations, poor or rich, are trying to evolve an optimal economic system through the hit and trial method. If socialism was consigned to the dustbin of history along with the …
Read MoreFind Inner Zen at Vitality 2013
Spring clean your life with the Vitality Show 2013. With exhibitors and experts from the worlds of health and nutrition, beauty, fitness, wellbeing and the biggest day spa the show …
Read MoreAre China’s Woes Masking Wider Asian Pollution?
Amidst recent reports of incredibly high rates of pollution in Chinese cities, especially Beijing, other Asian cities’ pollution levels are being heavily overshadowed. In fact, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Ulaanbaatar, …
Read MoreTwo Years on, Japan Remembers
This Monday, people in Japan and around the world will take time to pause to reflect on one of the most shocking natural disasters in recent memory, the Great East …
Read MoreWorries for Luxury Fashion Industry After Blow to Pashmina Supply
Unusually high levels of snowfall in the Indian Himalayas have killed almost 25,000 pashmina goats. This significant drop in population could be a genuine concern to world luxury retailers, as …
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