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   Hoi An Hoard, Part One - The Excavation

   During the 15th century, off the Hoi An coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea, a trading vessel...

   Vietnam Kim Fay

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   Hoi An Hoard, Part Two - The Collection

   When divers finally finished their job of excavating a fifteenth-century shipwreck off the Hoi An...

   Vietnam Kim Fay

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   Hoi An Hoard, Part Three - The Theories

   When 244,000 pieces of porcelain were finally excavated from a shipwreck off the Hoi An coast of ...

   Vietnam Kim Fay

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   Legs and Labia: The Sculpture of Luo Xu

   His work has been described as erotic, powerful, surreal and even profane. He is enamored - some ...

   China Joshua Samuel Brown

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   Sticky Rice

   After living in Asia for three years I thought I had tried every kind of rice dish imaginable. La...

   Laos MaryLou Driedger

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   Asia Civilization Museum: Where History and Culture Merges

   Culture of Today's Singapore From the earliest inhabitants that roam the Malay Peninsula during t...

   Singapore Ee Lin Wan

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   Palace Redux

   At the Dalat Palace guests become part of a comfortable illusion; they are characters in a drama ...

   Vietnam Robert Tompkins

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   100% Vietnamese Elegance

   St. Joseph's cathedral in Hanoi is a popular meeting-place for locals and tourists alike. There's...

   Vietnam Elizabeth Briel

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   Shipwrecks Off the Coast of Vietnam

   1617 - Nuestra Senora De Loreto A Spanish galleon lost off the coast of northern Vietnam, in the ...

   Vietnam ThingsAsian

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    A Mansion Restored...

    This was a chance meeting that touched me beyond words. The impressions were etched deep in my mi...

    Malaysia Audrey Lim

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    The Floating World

    An essay on the geisha, drawing on two books on the subject - Liza Dalby's Geisha and Lesley Down...

    Japan Kenneth Champeon

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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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    Ranau Rhapsody Sumatran Sojourn

    Secreted within the Marching Mountains of southern Sumatra, the serene volcanic Lake Ranau remain...

    Indonesia Philip Game

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    Ichimame. Apprentice geisha.

    Correspondent Daniel Rook meets trainee geisha Ichimame whose Internet blog is giving a rare insi...

    Japan AFP/Daniel Rook

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    Shopping Mumbai

    Shops in Mumbai take in both ends of the market - and you can go home with luggages full of good ...

    India Nabanita Dutt

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    Miyagawa, Takayama: A Morning By the Crystal River

    She was impressed, amazed and fully in the flow of life. A novice traveller to Japan described h...

    Japan Sze-Leng Tan

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    Riverine Bangkok

    Thais call Bangkok Krung Thep, City of Angels"; the name dates from 1782, after the original capi...

    Thailand Robert Tompkins

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    Remains of ancient royal citadel found in Vietnam

    Construction of Vietnam's new parliament building in Hanoi has been halted after archaeologists d...

    Vietnam AFP/Vu Quynh

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    Raise the Red Lantern

    It was by the light of the full moon and thousands of silk lanterns that I first saw Hoi An, one ...

    Vietnam Susan Storm

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    The Silkworm

    I am writing about the silkworm. In my travels in Japan, I had seen the remnants of silk farms. W...

    Japan Stefan Chiarantano

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