ASIAN Geographic Celebrates Cheetahs!
It's 4 December - Happy International Cheetah Day!
These beautiful, fast creatures are racing against extinction. Today, we'd like to bring awareness to the world’s...
ASIAN Geographic magazine is going through a rehaul!
In 2019, ASIAN Geographic is celebrating 20 years of bringing Asia to the world, and we have an exciting lineup ahead in 2020. Our...
Outstanding Brand of Asia Feature – How Tiger Balm Sprints Into The Hearts of...
One of Asia's outstanding brands featured in the new Asian Geographic collector's edition No. 138 Issue 5/2019, is the Tiger Balm, a brand of over...
Camera Brands in Asia
ASIAN Geographic works closely with camera brands and photographers alike, and in our latest issue we go through the different camera brands - including...
Asia in Numbers
Asia is known for its busy ports and tourist traffic. In our latest issue is an extensive infographic showing Asia's busiest airports and its...
Along the Karakoram Highway
By Choong Ching Teo
Atop the world’s highest border crossing.
One of the world’s most scenic mountain roads lies in the heart of the Asian continent,...
Little-known Facts About the Mobile Phone Industry
Text Rachel Kwek
Beyond the latest models and increasingly impressive phone specifications, what more is there to the gadget that has captured the imagination of...
5,000 Years of Pepper
THE pepper belongs to the Solanaceae family, from which we have also acquired the tomato, the potato and the eggplant. The variety of peppers...
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Asia’s Sweet Success: The History of Ice Cream in Asia
by Selina Tan
The concept of a frozen dessert is one that goes back thousands of years. By pouring a mixture of salt and ice over containers of liquid syrup, the Chinese were creating a rudimentary form of ice cream as long ago as 2000 BC. The resulting frozen product...
The Pyramid of Gunung Padang
Megalithic site in Indonesia could be the oldest in the world
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PeruGunung Padang is once again making headlines as the first pyramid in Southeast Asia and the oldest megalithic site in the world.Recent discoveries as deep as 90 feet found the hill-pyramid to contain...
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
(Photo: Graphicaartis/Corbis)
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon has captured the imagination of historians worldwide for centuries. Yet, its existence remains a debate as years of digging have turned up nothing about the lost Gardens.First described in a book called Babyloniaca by a Chaldean priest named Berossus in 280 BC, the...