During my recent jaunt to Qatar, my first time in the Middle East, I was intrigued by the amount of Asian faces I saw throughout my trip. No, not mixing about on the street scene so much, but more in the order of daily interaction with those in service positions. According the Philippine Embassy in …
Author: Justin Calderón
Justin Calderón is the founder of Mint Position, an SEO-focused content marketing agency that produces and ranks web content using journalistic-quality research. He is also a veteran journalist, and his byline has appeared in the BBC, CNN, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, GlobalPost, the Bangkok Post and more. Justin speaks Mandarin and Spanish.
Malaysia & Thailand: The Odd Couple
Over the past few years I have spent extended periods of time on both sides of the Thai-Malay border living in the two neighboring countries that bisect the Malaysian Peninsula. Sitting up my last night in the garment factory/townhouse I have been lodging at on and off in Bangkok for the last month before heading back …
Cambodia: Phnom Penh 6 years on
Six years have past since I last visited Phnom Penh on that sultry Halloween day in 2006, and, like myself and personal point of view, much of the city has undergone a noticeable amount of change. When I wrote about the dusty Cambodian capital last, I painted a picture of a place rife with "machine …
Myanmar: Yangon property prices surpass LA and Dubai
The dilapidated city of Yangon, Myanmar's commercial center, which is plagued by brown outs and derelict infrastructure, is becoming a surprisingly hot property market, as I reported on August 14 for Inside Investor. Ironically, the city's shortcomings -- as well as the privatization of previously government-owned estates -- are actually a major contributor to skyrocketing …
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