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Chain-smoking karang guni guy pushes his bike on the leftmost side, along the double yellow lines as taxis slither...

By Stephanie Chan

BLACK AND YELLOW pit vipers lazed in durian trees, sleepy and fat under the Penang sun. Visitors to Mr...

By Damyanti Biswas

IN RETROSPECT, IT was inevitable. But I know now there couldn’t have been a better place to have a...

By Candice Chung

THE PHRASE ABI NAKO has fascinated me since moving to Davao where I’ve had to make sense of the...

‘MY MUM IS pretty devastated about it, you know,’ my friend says. ‘She completely trusted this man and then...

By Elaine Laforteza

STUART PICKS ME up from the train station. Because we are in the country, everything is close by so...

By Michele Lee

‘WASN’T AH MA your hero? Didn’t you write about that somewhere?’ Robert asks, eyes locked ahead onto the black...

By Lian Low

NEARLY SEVENTEEN YEARS after the fall of Suharto’s totalitarian New Order regime, Indonesia is a different nation, and many...

By Okky Madasari

FOR GENERATIONS, THE Ghost languished in the garden of my nenek’s house. If you’ve ever been to Sungai Rokam,...

By Ted Mahsun

THE PARSIS OWNED a lot of Karachi at Partition. They still owned a little of it.‘You can’t have the...

By Shandana Minhas

In 2013, there were 319,325 migrant workers in Hong Kong. About half were Indonesian and nearly all were women....

By Nicholas Wong

WHEN GARETH EVANS visited Saigon on his way to London in 1968, it wasn’t exactly a common travel route,...

By Sheila Ngoc Pham