It was once home to the famous rich dynasties that ruled over with an iron-fisted power. Even today, it houses the famous forbidden palace, a touristic site for people from all walks of life. Today, it is home to hundreds…
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Dear God, have mercy on Japan
The Samurai warriors, a penchant for KitKat, transportation infrastructure, Tokyo’s sky-rocketing buildings, the enchanting pagodas, the Sushi, the suicide forest and, infrastructural and engineering might- Japan’s got so many positives. After all, it also happens to be the land of…
Here’s enough proof to suggest why South Korea is so chill, especially at the work-place
There may have been several assurances of peace being in the Korean peninsula- finally a hope against hope- but it seems, there’s no dearth in assurances of peace at Korean workplaces. It’s not even a promise, it’s an existential reality.…
Watch out: Protesting may set your hair on fire all thanks to China
We know it for being a manufacturing lord. We also know it to be dabbling rather successfully into making its own version of America’s Hollywood. And above everything- we understand it to be a rising power in the undeniably important…
Anlong Resort: Is this the World’s Most Beautiful Tourist Centre?
Few other countries are as polarised as China. In the modern age, it is seen from the perspective of multiple viewing points. Critiqued for being a totalitarian state where the pupil has less of a say in front of an…
To discourage kids from sleeping in class, a school in China installed cameras to monitors students
In a bizarre development from a country that often seems bizarre in its surge to push the envelope, a high-school in China actually ended up installing a camera inside its classrooms to monitor students round the clock. This is strange,…
Why has Singapore been chosen for hosting North Korea and US talks
With the recent events in the Korean peninsula, it seems that a watershed moment has been reached in the long history of discord between North Korea and South Korea. Where are the placards, banners and rabble-rousers now who raised vitriolically…
Japan’s missing children: the population figures emote a sad trend
At the mere utterance of the word Japan, you are reminded of a rainbow of diverse achievements. It is both- heritage and a tradition. The shogun culture of the past is always unputdownable. And so is the the tradition of…
China Opens A Humongous $7.9 Billion Movie Hub
There’s no culture quite like the movie culture. It’s as simple as that. The world doesn’t exactly know to what extent China and United States enjoy a bi-lateral relationship but here’s what is known. Today, it could be said that…
Why the Korean unification flag matters and the conflict it brings Japan?
A flag. A symbol of a solemn entity and a decoration of an officially recognised territory, isn’t it? An instance that warrants grins on faces, chuffed hearts, proud feelings and flexing of arms. A flag. The all-encompassing indicator that of…
A kiss that may have compromised a career: Japan boy band member Yamaguchi in centre of a storm
You are hot, successful and famous. And above everything- you are part of a cultural phenomenon in a country where pop culture is worshipped. Your fan-following, as expected, is immense. Among your globe-trotting fans are obviously women. Young girls- if…
Why Is China Worried About North Korea? Could There Be Some Insecurity?
The last when North Korea and South Korea interacted jointly and in amiable terms was perhaps when they weren’t a divided entity. It was a time where the duo had been a singular geographical body known as Korea. Interesting would…
Bangladesh Booming! What’s Led To A Stormy Rise Of An Underrated Sub-Continental Economy?
Natural disasters didn’t hurt its spirit, poverty didn’t mar it’s ability to fightback and the world’s largely opaque understanding of its culture and realities did little to dissuade Bangladesh from regrouping with its cerebral, inwardly bound talent and a collective…
As North Korea & South Korea Patiently Await Historic Summit, There’s Reason To Be Cautious, Warns US
It was back in 1945 that what had formerly been a united country found to it’s dismay a division of lands and geographical boundaries. Korea- hitherto ruled by Japan till 1945 would be divided in two separate identities. On the…
Nabi Tajima, 117, world’s oldest person from Japan is no more
A country that has the world’s most most alluring culture, rightly described in popular ethos as the land of the rising sun, a progressive economy that hasn’t witnessed an alarming downward spiral since the Second World War and also home…
Here’s Why The Sensitive Pulitzer-Prize Winning Rohingya Picture By Danish Siddiqui Is Making News
There are despairs and then they are big despairs, rather cause of despairs. What would you call the Rohingya crisis? Pain and suffering on both sides- Burma and Bangladesh- but the critical eye and sympathetic stares from an entire world.…
Dusted in obscurity, can Leonard Foujita make a comeback to public consciousness?
Perhaps it won’t be wrong to say that even to this day, the free-flowing breeze in the midst of Montparnasse carries a whisk of confusion: what happened to one of its most intriguing figure who added to the Parisian allure?…
For China, Bullet Trains Are A Real Boon! Here’s Why?
For a country whose speed at multiplying its economic wealth and overall rate of progress is nothing less than a tracer bullet, it is hardly a surprise that China is home to some fascinating developments in the ambit of the…
The Singapore Tourism Board had an awesome response to a Time Out survey that ranked it 31; as an unexciting city
It appears that one of the biggest surprises, rather shocks of 2018 is here. Recently, Time Out magazine made public the result of an extensive survey it had carried out on the lines of “City Life Index”. As a basis…
Taliban States 70 Per Cent Of Afghanistan Is Under Its Control! What Is Going On?
The Taliban are ruling and in fact have been ruling over Afghanistan with an iron fist. This is, despite repeated attempts by United States, Britain and other western powers to defeat the tormentors in the Central Asian country. At present,…
A Lost Chinese City Known As Sanmenxia with Several Underground, Caved Homes Surprises Media
For some interesting reason, one that can’t exactly be explained, China is always making news. When not for its staggering economic strength or its myriad touristic adventures, it’s the foreign policy of China and its attitude toward other Asian nations…
North Korea Has Threatened To Boycott The Winter Olympics. But Why?
There might be an odd day or two that could be dubbed as blessed in man’s version of hell, but there just can’t be a single day or normality in North Korea. Not even a full week had passed since…
Singapore Is Set To Tighten Its Noose Around Those Who Commit Crimes In 2018
Apart from being one of the stellar economies in south-east Asia and garnering a lot of praise from the west that describes it as the ‘gateway to Asia’ there is still a great deal more about Singapore that needs to…
The Strange Case Of North Korea’s Cheerleaders
North Korea and South Korea do not always interact. But when they do, it’s always sporty and dare one say, some fun too, whether or not, Kim Jong Un likes it or not. So recently, when the two countries forgot…
Japan PM Shinzo Abe Expresses Grave Concern About North Korea Going Nuclear
It is not always that Japan feels threatened by a nation. Not since the Second World War has Japan experienced such a looming crisis from any of its neighbouring countries- be it China or any other- as it is feeling…