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Finding Harmony Between Humans and Elephants
….How one non-profit organisation is encouraging alternative crops to reduce human–elephant conflict in Thailand.
Text Sarah Eichstadt
When elephants enter her farm, Roengrom “Rom” Amsamarng runs...
Travel and Adventure
Science
Climate Change: A Collaborative Reversal
One of the greatest and most devastating crises of this current generation - climate change, is happening much quicker than we feared. According to...
Culture
Thailand’s Hill Tribes See Their Last Days
As elders pass on and youth surrender to the tide of modernisation, the once-proud villages who lived off the land are surrendering their diligently preserved traditions for basic food and healthcare
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Explosive Beauty
Land Escapes: the mesmerising lines, curves and outlines of Japan's volcanic landscapes that embody the flow of time, according to Goto Aki
Text: Rachel Genevieve Chia
Since 1993, Goto Aki has journeyed to 53 countries and regions in his travels around the world. His project, “Land Escapes”, extracts the flow of time...
Asian Geographic Images of Asia Monthly Competition October 2021 Winners and Finalists
Winners of Images of Asia Monthly Competition October 2021
From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: “Sadly Endangered” by Graeme Guy ; “Bales Of Hay In The Padi Field” by Chen Chit Chuang ; “Old Traditional Coffee Shop” by Chen Chit Chuang ; “Cruising over Golden Sunset” by Desmond Ngu Chien Yew...
Once a Fishing Village
Located within the northwestern islands off the Philippine province of Northern Samar, the Biri Islands are home to a small fishing village plagued by a history of illegal ornamental fish trade, massive shark finning operations, and the occasional dynamite and cyanide fishing by the local fishermen. In recent collaboration, the government and locals have collaborated to transform the island into a conservation paradise.
Herbs Under Pressure
Text by Satya S. Tripathi
The Vital use of herbs
Asian herbs have been a source of nutrition and vital medication for millennia. But the extinction of crucial herb species caused by human activity is rupturing this healing fabric of life.
Asia's ancient civilisations have been using indigenous herbs for more than...
Current Affairs
Observing The New Uzbekistan
Central Asia's most populous nation Uzbekistan was voted for their leader. Around 20 million Uzbeks are eligible for an election on 9 July at...
Palm Progress
Can palm oil plantations and endangered rainforests really coexist? One conservationist says yes.
Text and images credit: Nathan Sen
The island of Borneo, divided among Malaysia,...
Above the Water: Sea Science
Text by Benjamin P.Horton
340 MILLION people are at risk of flooding from sea-level rise by 2050.
We know that rising sea levels affect every coastal...
The Gold Trap: How COVID-19 is pushing Filipino children into hazardous work
By Marielle Lucenio
The Philippines had been making slow progress in its long fight against child labour, but the pandemic reversed the gains that had...
A culture of silence blunts the impact of a new Vietnamese law against sexual...
By Trang Vu
Vietnam’s new labor law requires employers to put in place mechanisms to prevent and penalize sexual harassment in the workplace. But Vietnamese...
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The Road to Independence: Burma (1945 – 1962)
From the 1962 Democracy Protests, through the 1974 U Thant Crisis, the 1988 Uprising, and the 2007 Saffron Revolution, to the 2021 Spring Revolution, Myanmar has fought against the whims of its military leaders and suffered at the hands of the army. To make sense of the tumultuous events of the past six decades, we must understand the complex politics and power struggles that have dominated this country once known as Burma.
