Thai foodies splutter with anger as Kaeng Som named among world’s worst dishes
Kaeng Som is made from a paste of shrimp and shallots, its sharp sweet-sour flavour coming from the addition of tamarind and sometimes lime juice.
Culture
Over 100 South Korean Buddhist tourists to walk for 1100 km on 43-day pilgrimage
The tourists will visit Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India and subsequently move to Nepal.
Folk activities held across China to celebrate Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, fell on February 5 this year.
Vietnam’s Hoi An restores heritage for longer life
Built in the 18th century, the one-storey wooden structure house has sheltered eight generations of the family of Thai Quan Thang.
Feeling festive in Lunar January
From North to South Vietnam, thousands of festivals are being held to welcome the New Year and pray for health and happiness.
Floods, drugs and cultural patrimony: Tackling antiquities trafficking in Pakistan
Pakistan is a repository of relics, an archive of antiquities that is the envy of the world. And yet, its treasures have been trafficked, its heritage horse-traded and its past…
South Korean court denies temple’s ownership of statue stolen from Japan
While the Japanese temple asked that the seized statue be returned, the statue has been kept by the South Korean government after the South Korean temple laid its claims.
Speaking in sync: Addressing the chronic decline of the Indonesian language in Australia
The number of Australian students participating in Indonesian-language programs has hit a historic low, and many Australian researchers have voiced concern that this trend could…
Tourism’s return to Cambodia’s ‘Killing Fields’ brings jobs back
Choeung Ek, once a peaceful orchard, became the site of the most well-known of the Khmer Rouge killing fields. Up to 20,000 men, women and children were murdered here, many after…
Customs worth celebrating
Members of this Miao ethnic group are easy to recognise due to the hairstyles of their women, featuring a headpiece shaped like a pair of horns.