Category: Article
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Why is Singapore so militarised?
Singapore has a number of notable elements. There’s the grey business of the skyscrapers, the glitzy consumerism of the shopping complexes, and the bright colours of the tourist magnets like Sentosa and the Gardens by the Bay. It seems unexpected, then, that another notable feature is the number of military sites. There was one just…
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How much Korean cultural influence is there in Thailand?
In the midst of Bangkok’s teeming ecosystem of adverts, all over the walls of the metro and infesting the huge shopping centres, something occurred to me. Thai people can have a wide range of skin tones, but the people grinning and holding up products in the adverts were exceptionally pale. This could be attributed to…
