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With North and South Korea fielding three joint teams in this year's Asian Games, we take a look at the significance of the initiative...

Visionaries who believe in making the world a better place and have made efforts to do so

José Jeuland's  latest photography exhibition, "Longevity Okinawa" was officially opened amid huge fanfare at Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on April 19. A series of...

Over the centuries, martial arts have travelled far beyond their places of origin and become some of the greatest sports ever devised. In contemporary...

(text & photos: SOPHIE IBBOTSON & MAX LOVELL-HOARE) WHEN IT COMES TO WINEMAKING, the French are the new kids on the block and New World...

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” –...

Driving through the streets of the commuter town of Rawang, 30 kilometres north of Malaysia’s capital city Kuala Lumpur, Azlina Jamaluddin is more than eager to challenge any criticism of polygamous marriage. A born-again Muslim and self-proclaimed “working woman”, the 48-year-old dentist ascribes her professional success and personal growth to polygamy. “I can work, I have more time for myself and I don’t need to take care of my children all the time, as the other wives share the childrearing responsibilities with me,” she shares.

When the government created the city-state’s first hawker centre in 1971, resettling disparate food vendors into a single, well-managed facility, no one could have predicted the peculiarly Singaporean obsession that would ensue.