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  • April 14, 2020

    Bangkok’s Coronavirus Songkran

    April 4, 2020

    Bangkok in the Age of Covid-19

    March 2, 2020

    Life Speeding Up Along Yangon’s Slow Circular Train Line

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    Japan’s Itsukushina Torri Gate: History Now Under Wraps

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    Sakura Season: When Japan Springs to Life

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    Kimono Style Lives on in Japan

Bangkok’s Coronavirus Songkran
Bangkok’s Coronavirus Songkran
April 14, 2020 In Blog Thailand No Comment

Songkran – the Thai New Year – is normally a joyous, water-soaked, three-day party. But that was before Covid-19. In 2020, Songkran has been canceled, the legal holidays revoked, the water-spraying forbidden, alcohol banned and an overnight curfew imposed. The result are ghostly quiet streets and train stations.

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Bangkok in the Age of Covid-19
Bangkok in the Age of Covid-19
April 4, 2020 In Blog Thailand No Comment

Thailand didn’t impose its national 10 p.m-4 a.ml curfew until April 3, but Bangkok’s streets and subways looked as if it had already taken effect a day before.

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Life Speeding Up Along Yangon’s Slow Circular Train Line
Life Speeding Up Along Yangon’s Slow Circular Train Line
March 2, 2020 In Blog Myanmar No Comment

A first trip to Yangon necessitates visits to its historic pagodas. But the best way to see the “real” Yangon is spending a half-day (or more) traveling the Yangon Circular Line.

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Japan’s Itsukushina Torri Gate: History Now Under Wraps
Japan’s Itsukushina Torri Gate: History Now Under Wraps
July 22, 2019 In Blog Japan No Comment

For 851 years, an O-torii Gate has stood as the portal to Japan’s sacred Itsukushima Island. But, for the foreseeable future, the current version will be covered in tarp and scaffolding, making this a good time to review the history of the vermillion gate to what today is known as Miyajima Island.

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Sakura Season: When Japan Springs to Life
Sakura Season: When Japan Springs to Life
July 21, 2019 In Blog Japan No Comment

As anyone who has lived or visited there knows, Japan has five seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Sakura Season.

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Kimono Style Lives on in Japan
Kimono Style Lives on in Japan
April 25, 2019 In Blog Japan No Comment

It has been 150 years since Japan’s emperor ordered his citizens to dress in western style, but the kimono refuses to die. Even today it retains a powerful hold on the Japanese heart and mind. (50 Photos)

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The New Vang Vieng: Laos’ hedonistic hotspot pivots  ecotourism, older tourists
The New Vang Vieng: Laos’ hedonistic hotspot pivots ecotourism, older tourists
February 12, 2017 In Blog Laos No Comment

Welcome to the new Vang Vieng, a kinder, gentler version of one of S.E. Asia’s most infamous hotbeds of hedonism. Like a Hollywood starlet, this ramshackle blotch with jagged mountains and a languid river lived fast and died hard. But it’s back, with an all-new image.

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From Slum to Sensation: Hanoi’s ‘Train Street’
From Slum to Sensation: Hanoi’s ‘Train Street’
April 2, 2019 In Blog Vietnam No Comment

Thailand may have the Maeklong Railway Market, but it has nothing on Hanoi’s Ngo 224 Le Duan, better known as “Train Street”. Before Instagram, this narrow Old Quarter alley bisected by an twice-daily rail line was a slum. Now it’s a sensation.

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The Slowest Race in Asia: The Cigar Smoking World Championship
The Slowest Race in Asia: The Cigar Smoking World Championship
March 28, 2019 In Blog Thailand No Comment

Some call it the “slowest race in the world”: The Cigar Smoking World Championship is a test of how slowly and delicately one can burn through a cigar and, for the uninitiated, is quite a sight to behold.

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Hong Kong’s Retail Revolution
Hong Kong’s Retail Revolution
March 23, 2019 In Blog China Hong Kong No Comment

Just crowned again this week as the world’s most-expensive city (along with Paris and Zurich), Hong Kong has always had the reputation of being a rich place. So it was a bit shocking to see how much the city has gentrified in the 22 years since the U.K. returned it to China – and I last visited.

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