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   A cult of body and beauty develops in post-war Iraq

   Iraqis have profited from the lifting of sanctions after the US-led war by discovering the pleasu...

   Iraq AFP/Beatriz Lecumberri

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   Devdaasis

   Sometime around 250 A.D., a man called Vatsayana wrote Kamasutra , a crafty little compilation of...

   India Nabanita Dutt

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   A Critical Look Back at The Beach

   In recent times, Alex Garland's book The Beach , and the movie inspired by it, have probably draw...

   Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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   Whale Worship in Phan Thiet: Cau Ngu, Nghinh Ong and the Van Thuy Tu Temple

   In the sleepy fishing town of Phan Thiet, Vietnam, ancient rites of whale worship take place in t...

   Vietnam Adam Bray

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   Wong Kar-wai's 2046

   * * * It was a film some cynics suggested would never be finished. But after four years in the ma...

   China AFP/Neil Western

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   Kangaroo Café Hops Out to Halong Bay

   Hanoi's popular Kangaroo Café has something new on the menu that's even bigger than its hefty ha...

   Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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   A Ride with Destiny

   It is 1975. The Pan Am flight circles low around the Indonesian Island of Bali, as it makes its' ...

   Indonesia Samantha Coomber

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   Of Mysore, Maharajas And Magnificence

   The author visits Mysore, city of sandalwood and ancient palaces, and ex-capital of a kingdom tha...

   India Graham Simmons

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   Film Review: Big Trouble In Little China

   When the earth quakes and the thunder crashes and the pillars of heaven shake, there's only one m...

   China Will Raus

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    Your Own Private Tutor: The Ancient Civilization of Vietnam

    Do you find certain Vietnamese concepts a bit hard to grasp? Do you feel confused by such non-wes...

    Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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    A Skeptical Impressionist: Charles Buls and His Siamese Sketches

    A review of Siamese Sketches , Charles Buls, trans. Walter E. J. Tips, [White Lotus, Bangkok, 199...

    Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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    Astro Boy goes to Hollywood

    Hong Kong-based animation studio Imagi launches its modern 3D take on the "Astro Boy" story...

    Japan AFP/Mathew Scott

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    Tagore's Total Vision - I

    An essay on Asian Nobellian, Indian Rabindranath Tagore.

    India Kenneth Champeon

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    Cambodian Dreams Deferred

    Review of David Chandler's "A History of Cambodia", Silkworm Books, 1998.

    Cambodia Kenneth Champeon

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    It ain't Hollywood, but North Korean cinema only has room for one star

    * * * PYONGYANG, April 4, 2005 - In North Korea's version of Hollywood, there is only room for on...

    Korea, N AFP/Karl Malakunas