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   Hong Kong's Street Sweepers

   The city of Hong Kong employs nearly 4000 street sweepers a day. They are a unique part of the Ho...

   China MaryLou Driedger

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   Chinese Teens Respond To Amy Chau's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

   Amy Chau has gained international attention since an excerpt from her new book Battle Hymn of the...

   Singapore / China / Taiwan MaryLou Driedger

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   Turning plastic junk into 'green' gold in Taiwan

   Recycling plastics waste in Taiwan...

   Taiwan AFP/Amber Wang

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   Learning from Durian

   Developing a taste for this Asian delicacy brings to mind philosophies to more fully appreciate y...

   Vietnam / Thailand Adam Bray

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   Youth in ruin: the other side of Angkor

   Each year an ever-increasing stream of tourists arrive in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the small town tha...

   Cambodia Donald Gilliland

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   Homelessness in Japan

   I have come across homeless people in my travels in Japan. I have seen the tent communities in To...

   Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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   The Street Children of Delhi

   Looking for a unique eye opening tour in Delhi? A guide from the Salaam Baalak Trust will take yo...

   India MaryLou Driedger

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   A Sensory Assault

   Delhi assaults the senses. Take an early morning stroll through down town Delhi and be prepared t...

   India MaryLou Driedger

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   Renovation work may prove Indian emperor built Nepal monastery

   KATHMANDU, Feb 10, 2003 - Ancient artefacts unearthed during renovation work on Nepal's second-ol...

   Sri Lanka / Nepal / India AFP/Shusham Shrestha

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    A Book as Green as Its Cover: Environment and Bioresources of Vietnam by Dr. Cao Van Sung

    In rapidly modernizing Southeast Asia it sometimes seems that all the environmental news I hear i...

    Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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    Bogor Botanic Garden Kebun Raya Bogor

    My experience in the world class botanical garden, Kebun Raya Bogor, is varied. Just like Indone...

    Indonesia victor wong

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    Have Mountain Museum, Need Everest Exhibits

    POKHARA, Nepal, May 23, 2003 - Lonely and forlorn, desperately seeking exhibits -- that's the pit...

    Nepal AFP/Bryan Pearson

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    The City of Cats

    Kuching in Malay means cat. Thus Sarawak's state capital is known as the City of Cats. To pay hom...

    Malaysia Heng Wah

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    Culture shock: Getting a Chinese driver's licence

    On taking China's written driver's licence exam...

    China AFP/Pascale Trouillaud

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    Confucius Says

    Growing up in a so-called Western society, I was taught that what followed the clause "Confucius ...

    China Kenneth Champeon

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    Cannons, Chapels and Fine Cuisine: Macau's Historic Pousada de Sao Tiago

    In the course of my travels I've spent the night in all kinds of odd places. I've camped in the n...

    China Steven K. Bailey

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    Sapporo's Art Parks

    Sapporo is Japan's 4th largest city and one of the newest as development only began in the 1800s....

    Japan Asian Images John Lander

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    The wetter the better: Thailand's Songkran festival

    Imagine this scene: scads of Clampett-like hillbilly families crammed into the back of pickup tru...

    Thailand Donald Gilliland

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    Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and Madame Ten Percent

    A foreigner helplessly lost in an Indonesian cultural theme park...

    Indonesia Victor Wong

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    Christmas in Hong Kong

    I've lived in Hong Kong for six years and people from North America always ask me "How do you cel...

    China MaryLou Driedger

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