If you ask Tin Mg Win, the landslide win seized by Myanmar opposition party the National League for Democracy (NLD) on November 8th’s general election is too early to celebrate. The 83-year-old former general manager at Yangon’s AC Martin, a US architecture firm, recalls the last time the NLD came out victorious at the ballot …
For many, the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan is more likely to conjure up images of a medieval “Game of Thrones” realm than of tech-infused modernity. Set high above the snow lines, the nation is ruled by a Dragon King, remote and steeped in old world traditions of monastic asceticism. The government is still largely …
Continue reading The Thunder Dragon goes digital (Bangkok Post)
The ‘sacred’ story of the Philippines’ former strongman Ferdinand Marcos, as told through a bizarre museum in his home province, where he is still adored. Outside of the Marcos Museum and Mausoleum, beneath a soaring verdant canopy, skinny pushbike tricycle drivers listlessly chatter away the day. They are more consumed by their conversation …
Continue reading History is how you read it: the Marcos Museum (Southeast Asia Globe)
When Marc walks out of his Makati neighborhood, a cramped warren of squat slum dwellings in West Rembo, the view he sees could not be more contrasting to where he has just come from. His neighborhood’s crumbling cranny – too narrow to be marked on maps; too populated to be free of cars – empties …
Continue reading Manila’s Tale Of Two Cities: Where Rich And Poor Coexist
You wouldn’t be able to tell it by looking at newspaper headlines, but China is not the largest fear of the Philippines – the real danger is much more natural. Climate change is the top-of-the-mind fear of Filipinos, a recent survey by Pew Research Center revealed. And, indeed, it should be. The archipelago nation is …
Justin Calderón 