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   Ancestors

   A thin glaze of steely clouds frosts the sky. Leaves, like shriveled claws, scratch along the pav...

   Vietnam Kim Fay

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   Vietnam's new crop of paper offerings for ancestors

   Mod-cons for the dead a sign of good life in modern Vietnam...

   Vietnam AFP/Frank Zeller

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   High Rise Apartments for the Dead

   Not only the living but also the dead are housed in high rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong. W...

   China MaryLou Driedger

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   The T'boli Tribe of South Cotabato.

   More than 40 different ethnic groups can be found in the Philippines. There are 18 tribal groups ...

   Philippines Ronald de Jong

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   History of Malaya…How It All Began

   Positioned between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, Malaysia has long been the meeting p...

   Malaysia Doreen Cheong

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   The Tran Family Home

   The Tran Family Home, 21 Le Loi Street, Hoi An One hundred ninety-five years ago, in 1802, the Tr...

   Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

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   The last Tribes of Mindanao, Badjao, the Sea Gypsies.

     Badjao or Bajau means man of the seas, this tribal group is known as the Sea Gypsies becau...

   Philippines Ronald de Jong

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   Film Review: The Rice People

   Rice. The staff of life for nearly all of Asia. Pristeen in its snowy simplicity, yet so complex ...

   Cambodia Celeste Heiter

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   Feeding Hong Kong's Hungry Ghosts

   The Hungry Ghost festival is celebrated in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Chin...

   Malaysia / Singapore / China AFP/Chitra Panjabi

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    Water Puppet Performance: The Program

    A water pond framed by a gold filigreed pagoda is visible as the audience enters the space, as is...

    Vietnam Lisa Spivey/Albert Wen

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    Angkor, from dream to memory

      All civilisations rise and fall but at Angkor the remains of the great days of the ancient...

    Cambodia Dianne Sharma-Winter

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    Happy Lunar New Year! Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

    Happy Lunar New Year! Chuc Mung Nam Moi!Send a free eCard to celebrate Tet.

    Vietnam ThingsAsian

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    Songkran Festival or Thai New Year

    Songkran, or the Thai New Year, is still the most important of all the Thai festivals and holidays.

    Thailand Randy Gaudet

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    Water Puppet Performance

    Many readers and travelers may have already seen a performance or heard about it. We have chosen ...

    Vietnam Lisa Spivey

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    South Kalimantan: The Land of a Thousand Rivers

    My last thought before sleep was that the calling-drum suspended from the rafters would fall on m...

    Indonesia Leslie Nevison

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    The John Bull Brahmin

    Review of Paul Theroux's Sir Vidia's Shadow, his memoir of VS Naipaul.

    India Kenneth Champeon

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    Mindanao, The Ancient South.

    Southern Mindanao, a region that is surrounded by epics, legends, folk tales, mysteries, mytholog...

    Philippines Ronald de Jong

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    Ma'Daerah Turtle Sanctuary

    * * * Ma'Daerah Turtle Sanctuary, Malaysia, Aug 19, 2004 - A turtle named Henry headed for the So...

    Malaysia AFP/Lawrence Bartlett

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    The Colorful Process to Monkhood

    Experience some aspects of monk life...

    Thailand Exotissimo

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    Legend of the Chinese Zodiac

    In my family, we have a dog, an ox, a rat, a tiger, and two dragons! When such a varied bunch sit...

    Malaysia / Singapore / China Audrey Lim

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