The series is a period drama and tells the story of Dasiyah, or Jeng Yah, the daughter of a kretek (clove cigarette) mogul in the 1960s as she tries to come up with a new kretek…
Seeing the vast mountainous landscape of Xinjiang from the sky while on the flight in from Guangzhou had already given me a favourable early impression of this land at the heart…
Many mosques around South Asia have a lot of history attached to them and are not just a place of prayer, but also a tourist attraction. Here is a look at 5 of them.
The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, is recognised as the largest and best-preserved ancient architectural complex in China.
Singapore’s own acrobatic circus, the Circus of Altrades, thrilled spectators at its first feature show recently. The Straits Times takes you behind the scenes to see the…
The extra-large family – the product of their late patriarch’s polygamy – numbers nearly 200.
The writer says the caretaker government's decision also goes against the very spirit of why Pakistan was born — a place where a minority, once under threat of persecution,…
Every day, underground marketplaces on Telegram hawk live animals to people in Singapore who want them as pets.
Animals that attract tourists to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park are also straying into farmlands and wiping out crops at the park’s border.
When the existence of an entire people is denied, when their humanity is denied again and again and again, when they are simultaneously cast as non-existent and terrorist — we…