AGI Magazine
Hong Kong’s pro-China chief executive Leung Chun-ying has faced the first significant threat to his mandate this month, having been forced to back down over controversial education reforms. In the …
Read MoreWhile the citizens of the Czech Republic still dominate in terms of consumption per capita, the increasing popularity of beer among Chinese drinkers has seen them emerge at the top …
Read MoreAlong with the appointment of Aung San Suu Kyi this April after it held its first parliamentary elections in more than 20 years, Burma has seen a dramatic lift in …
Read MoreWith the country’s largest underworld organisation, the Yamaguchi-gumi, fast approaching its centenary year, Japan’s yakuza criminal fraternity finds itself and its activities under ever increasing pressure. ncreased levels of scrutiny …
Read MoreHaving attracted more than 220 million views on YouTube, the music video for Korean rapper Psy’s latest single ‘Gangnam Style’ has become a genuinely global pop-cultural phenomenon and catapulted its …
Read MoreWith an increasingly diverse range culinary options at our fingertips, sushi need not be the only option for an Asian influenced lunch break. For Londoners in particular, opportunities to expand …
Read MoreIn Asia, especially among the ever expanding middle classes, it seems golf has become the new religion, where a new set of TaylorMade clubs are cherished just as much as …
Read MorePhuket and Ko Samui may take all the plaudits but for a true essence of Thai beach life, it is little known Ko Lanta that ticks all the right boxes. …
Read MoreOn his second collaboration with Tate, Kashmir born artist Raqib Shaw, presents a short animation, seed of the “Forgotten Forests of Xanadu”, a reference to the summer capital of the …
Read MoreThe tit for tat demonstrations by Chinese and Japanese activists over the ongoing sovereignty dispute of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands are representative of a deeper historical and ideological divide between the …
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