The Silent Epidemic
Sixty percent of the world’s diabetic population is Asian. And yet, many people don’t understand the dangers of this disease – and how to prevent it.
Love Without Boundaries
They sound like customs that belong to a forgotten culture of an ancient community. The Mosuo people do not traditionally marry, but engage uninhibitedly in consensual relationships with different and often multiple partners
Qusbegi: The Lord of Birds
Text and images by Bryan Chan and Marija Savic
Fitted in an enormous cowhide coat and a colourful peaked hat ringed with fur, the qusbegi...
China’s Attempt at Mitigating Plastic Waste
Text: Sitaraah Joshi
Imagine looking over an endless sea of overcrowded, cluttered waste. Such is the plight of the heaps of rubbish that have been...
Beras – Splendour of a continent
Text & Photos by Jon Ramlan
Rice is life to the people of Asia; as Asians, we all know that. We also know that it...
Bali’s Friendly Fire Wars
Come Nyepi, Perang Api – a traditional fiery ritual to banish old wrongs – is all the rage in remote villages
Are You a Wood Baby? – The Making of the Wood Person
Article extracted from Asian Geographic Issue 02/2020 (141)
Text: Shreya Acharya
When it comes to personality types, the archetypal wood baby is “the pioneer” –...
Spiritual Skin
For centuries, indigenous tattooists working across Asia have marked human skin with powerful designs and symbols in their quest to signal ethnic identity and render the body sacred. Carried through life and onwards into death, these marks of humanity testify to an ancestral legacy that is in danger of gradually fading away.
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