Photographer Spotlight: Akshay Upadhya
Landscape Category January 2020 Winner, taken in Uttarakhand, by Akshay Upadhya
As ASIAN Geographic’s annual Images of Asia (IOA) 2020 Photo/Videography Competition looms closer, submissions...
Photographer Spotlight: Mohd Nazri Sulaiman
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Photographer Spotlight: Zon Hisham
Street/People Category January 2020 Winner, titled “Zen It Out”, by Zon Hisham Bin Zainal Abidin, in Sabah, Malaysia
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Invasive Mussel Species Found In Asia For First Time
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Text Rachel Genevieve Chia
Amar Sharma might not...
Photographer Spotlight: Jophel Botero Ybiosa
Wildlife Category May 2020 Winner, Jophel Botero Ybiosa, taken in Batu Caves, Malaysia
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Sidewalk sacrifices
The 7th lunar month sees incense and food left on sidewalks in Asia, but experts and Taoist believers cannot agree on why or how the practice came to be.
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