Combining broken tea bowls help heal Kanazawa potter’s broken heart
A Kanazawa potter has been fusing together fragments of tea bowls, which were shattered during the massive Noto Peninsula Earthquake, from three generations of artists — his…
People
Nature and nurture: This urban farm in S’pore has a very special mission
Grace Mission, founded in 2012 by Pastor Andrew Choo and his wife Grace, aims to provide jobs and therapy to people with autism and other special needs.
Korean adoptees embark on journeys to find roots
Struggling to find where they belong, South Korean adoptees say the experience of meeting “like-minded people” in the Korean adoptee community is important.
‘Cambodia’s Hidden Scars’ final book highlights healing after atrocities
The series provides an in-depth analysis of the idea that human rights violations, armed conflict, and war cause psychological and psychiatric outcomes, using the Kingdom’s…
Birth of a Braille book
With more than 17 million visually impaired individuals in China, Braille books serve as a crucial pathway for the community to receive education, acquire skills and understand…
Sand, shoal and struggle: A perilous passage through Bangladesh’s Padma river
What used to be a straightforward trip now takes up to two hours, with the hot sand making the journey even more challenging.
A ‘drifting’ postbox for letters to people who died in the 2011 Japan Earthquake kept running
So far, the postbox has received more than 1,000 letters saying such things as: “I wish I could meet you in my dreams” and “I always think of you.”
Prone to fire and fresh air problems, people figure out life in a Jakarta slum area
While the minimum standard of adequate living is a bit more than 7 square metres per person, on average, there are 17 Jakartans living to each 1 sq m of the city.
Malaysian illustrator Tuan Nini, based in Romania, shares her art journey
Nini, 37, currently resides in Bucharest, Romania, where she has lived for the past 18 years since she moved there to pursue a fine arts degree at the Bucharest National…
Pakistan-born Korean Anna Kim is so much more than ‘super rich’
Anna Kim is visibly Pakistani, speaks Korean fluently, was a traditional Korean clothing model but wore Pakistani outfits throughout the latest reality show she was a part of and…