Fishing in Troubled Waters

Argument - In Asia and in Italy

Andrea Berrini
Jul 18th, 2014

My few weeks back in Milan have been long enough to give me a rough idea of what is happening in my country (and the West, in general), after about two years absence in China and eastern Asia. There have been loys of surprises, but what has surprised me most is how my friends have changed.

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Andrea Berrini
Italy
Last blog date: Jul 18th, 2014

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Selfie, Unselfie, Poetic Selfie

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Jul 15th, 2014

Tammy Ho reveals all on the Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year - 'selfie'

 

 

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Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Hong Kong
Last blog date: Jul 15th, 2017

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Two Poems

Thunderstorm Warning

Java Hustings

Michael Vatikiotis
Jun 17th, 2014

Indonesia elects a new President on 9 July. In Jogyakarta, the support of the Goddess of the Southern Seas is vital.

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Michael Vatikiotis
Singapore
Last blog date: Oct 18th, 2016

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The Burden of Beasts

Melody Kemp
Jun 13th, 2014

Asia risks extinction for the animals of Africa and Asia in exchange for ivory and the imaginary powers of penis and horn.

 

 

 

Last year, I heard a poaching in Salamanca.

The intense, beautifully chiselled British artist Asher Jay projected a series of stills onto a huge screen in the meeting hall. The evocative photos accompanied a soundtrack recorded in Africa of the innocuous short pops that represented shots from automatic weapons used by poachers when they dropped an African bull elephant.

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Melody Kemp
Laos
Last blog date: Oct 10th, 2015

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Tiananmen Massacre - 25 Years On

Tiananmen Square Massacre: 25 Years On

Justin Hill
Jun 4th, 2014

1989 was a year of change: the Soviet army pulled out of Kabul; Solidarity was allowed to contest elections in Soviet Poland; Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest; and I turned eighteen.

That was a year for me when old certainties of home and family fell away.  Apparently I was not going to die before I got old, and as Motorola introduced the MicroTAC Personal Cellular Telephone, it seemed that it was at least theoretically possible to have a phone conversation without standing under the stairs, as my mother listened through the open kitchen door.  

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Justin Hill
United Kingdom
Last blog date: Jun 4th, 2014

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Dog City

Michael Vatikiotis
May 24th, 2014

Michael Vatikiotis and Cod Satrusayang consider the implications of this week's coup in Thailand.

 

 

 

 

 

Thailand, May 22nd 2014

 

They arrive to sounds of trumpets and cheering
With tanks and planes and muted jeering.

Staring at the end of a rifle, we were told to unite.
We saluted, praised him, sang patriotic songs into the night.

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Michael Vatikiotis
Singapore
Last blog date: Oct 18th, 2016

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