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Zoroastrianism: A Persian Religion
Text by Khushi Makasare
One of the world's oldest religions, Zoroastrianism might slowly be fading into obscurity.
The Dadar Parsi Colony in Mumbai, India is home...
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4 Asian Countries On the Road to Green Cars
Paving the way to fossil fuel-free roads in Asia
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The Gold Trap: How COVID-19 is pushing Filipino children into hazardous...
By Marielle Lucenio
The Philippines had been making slow progress in its long fight against child labour, but the pandemic reversed the gains that had...
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Alternating Currency: The Currency Collages
(text & photos C. K. Wilde)
WHY cut up money? The original idea of currency collage came from Marshall Weber’s seminal show The United States of Americana in San Francisco in 1990. In 1995, money collage was introduced to me in college in a class on non-static forms. Marshall Weber’s...
Discover the Philippines – Bohol + Coron
The upcoming Hot Soup School Challenge will see a group win a four-day trip to the Philippines!
Here’s just an outline of what the winners can anticipate with this packed itinerary:
BOHOL, THE PHILIPPINES
The students who win will get the opportunity to explore some of the most beautiful hotspots in Bohol....
Photographer Spotlight: Aulia Erlangga
Food Category February 2021 Winner, taken in Jemaja Island, Province of Riau Islands, Indonesia, by Aulia Erlangga, captioned “Salted fish is the main economic commodity for people in small islands in remote areas of Indonesia. Abundant marine products must be preserved in order to have economic value because inter-island...
Homeless, not Shameless
How Japan’s broken economic state destroyed the middle-class haven (Text by Kara Kandarakis and photos by Michael Kandarakis)
It was January 10, 2001 at exactly 7pm. The outdoor thermometer on a high-rise building read -2DegC – an unusually frigid winter month for January in Tokyo that year. Matsui watched the...
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Palm Progress
Can palm oil plantations and endangered rainforests really coexist? One conservationist says yes.
Text and images credit: Nathan Sen
The island of Borneo, divided among Malaysia,...
Above the Water: Sea Science
Text by Benjamin P.Horton
340 MILLION people are at risk of flooding from sea-level rise by 2050.
We know that rising sea levels affect every coastal...
The Gold Trap: How COVID-19 is pushing Filipino children into hazardous work
By Marielle Lucenio
The Philippines had been making slow progress in its long fight against child labour, but the pandemic reversed the gains that had...
A culture of silence blunts the impact of a new Vietnamese law against sexual...
By Trang Vu
Vietnam’s new labor law requires employers to put in place mechanisms to prevent and penalize sexual harassment in the workplace. But Vietnamese...
Who Peels Your Garlic: Inside Manila’s Informal Economy
By Geela Garcia
The garlic peeling industry in Baseco, Manila renders Filipino women among the least visible, worst paid, and most dispensable part of...
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The Uniquely Southeast Asian Sport of Sepak Takraw
Sepak takraw may have been around since the 15th century, but it’s no forgotten relic. Find out more about the history of this fast-growing sport – and its bid for Olympic recognition
