Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Rising
On February 24, Phagmo Dundrup, a Tibetan farmer in his early twenties, committed the ultimate act of protest, setting himself on fire in the monks’ debating area of Chachung monastery in Tsoshar...
View ArticleDebunking Panorama Paranoia: North Korea Tour Leader Simon Cockerell
Last week BBC caused a furor in international media when word got out that its reporter John Sweeney, posing as a PhD student, entered North Korea undercover with a group of students from the London...
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Aida Makoto: Far-Sighted Visions of Near-Sighted Japan
Since his highly provocative Monument for Nothing exhibition opened at Tokyo’s prestigious Mori Art Museum last November and ran through this March, Japanese artist Aida Makoto has been generating...
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Saving the Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Outside the village of Mes Aynak, in eastern Afghanistan's mountainous Logar province, a burgeoning Buddhist center once flourished. In its heyday, this Silk Road hub thrived on trade between the...
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Saving the Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Outside the village of Mes Aynak, in eastern Afghanistan's mountainous Logar province, a burgeoning Buddhist center once flourished. In its heyday, this Silk Road hub thrived on trade between the...
View ArticleKim Ki-hoon: South Korea’s Cram School King
The Wall Street Journal recently told the story of Kim Ki-hoon, a South Korean “rock-star” teacher who rakes in an eye-popping $4 million annually to tutor kids after school. This exorbitant salary is...
View ArticleProject Inspire 2013: Empowering Women Worldwide
Over the weekend on Singapore’s INSEAD campus, the Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard co-organized the Project Inspire 2013 Grand Finals, an event that showcased a wide range of exciting...
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Mahendraparvata: Cambodia’s Archaeological Rebirth
In the popular imagination, Cambodia calls to mind two polarizing images: Angkor Wat and the nation’s bloody recent history under the iron-fisted rule of dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. As the...
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Shark Finning: Appetite for Extinction?
A trip to the fishing docks of Kesennuma City, Japan, is not for the squeamish. With assembly line efficiency, men clad in industrial overalls oversee a process that begins with an early morning mass...
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