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The Year of Living Dangerously

Film Review: The Year of Living Dangerously

Directed by Peter Weir in 1982, The Year of Living Dangerously is a compelling political drama th...

Indonesia Celeste Heiter

Vietnamese refugee Hai Yen Huynh (R) poses with her daugther Fay Lynn (L) during a tour at Galang island, Riau, Indonesia.

Tears and joy as ex-Vietnamese boat people revisit camp

PULAU GALANG, Indonesia, April 3, 2005 - Tien Tran knelt at the grave of her husband, tears strea...

Indonesia AFP/Ahmad Pathoni

My golf caddy in Bali was an invaluable asset.

Seeing Bali Through Sunlini's Eyes

The caddies on the Nirwana Golf Course in Bali are experts at golf but they can teach you so much...

Indonesia MaryLou Driedger

Tandoori Love

Asian Films Play "I've Got a Secret" at San Jose'sCinequest 2009

Each year, ThingsAsian features reviews of all the Asian and Asia-related films entered for compe...

Indonesia / Japan / China Celeste Heiter

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Indonesian porn law threatens Papua traditions

A new anti-pornography law criminalising all works and "bodily movements" deemed obscene and capa...

Indonesia AFP/Aubrey Belford

South Sulawesi House in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and Madame Ten Percent

A foreigner helplessly lost in an Indonesian cultural theme park...

Indonesia Victor Wong

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Traditional Chinese Medicine in Indonesia

Chinese medicine stores retain their lure in Indonesia...

Indonesia AFP/Victor Tjahjadi

Sunset, Sengiggi Beach.

Lombok -- Flowersongs And Desperation

With trepidation, we boarded the rickety, two prop, forty-four seat Fokker 27 that was supposed t...

Indonesia Robert Tompkins

Sunset over Lake Ranau

Ranau Rhapsody Sumatran Sojourn

Secreted within the Marching Mountains of southern Sumatra, the serene volcanic Lake Ranau remain...

Indonesia Philip Game

Pagong's exclusive kimono silk shirt with vintage flower design

Silk Buying in Asia

Buying silk in Kyoto, Yogyakarta, Kuching, Chiang Mai and Hanoi is fun.

Indonesia / Vietnam / Malaysia victor wong

traditional dessert of Indonesia: kolak

The Traditional Delicious Desserts of Indonesia

Being a sweet-tooth, I have always been obsessed about all kinds of desserts from around the worl...

Indonesia Sandra Lilyana

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War-weary Asian nations offer new treats for tourists

War-weary Asian countries are planning new treats for travellers in a bid to cash in on a "peace ...

Indonesia / Cambodia / Sri Lanka AFP/Mel Gunasekera

River Rafting

South Kalimantan: The Land of a Thousand Rivers

My last thought before sleep was that the calling-drum suspended from the rafters would fall on m...

Indonesia Leslie Nevison

Me in front of a tree strangled by the vine Phytocrene macrophylla

Bogor Botanic Garden Kebun Raya Bogor

My experience in the world class botanical garden, Kebun Raya Bogor, is varied. Just like Indone...

Indonesia victor wong

South Pacific

Film Review: South Pacific

Stationed in the South Pacific in the proximity of a Japanese island stronghold, the troops invol...

Indonesia Celeste Heiter

Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter in Paradise Road

Film Review: Paradise Road

Film Review: Paradise Road by Celeste Heiter How silent is this place The brilliant sunshi...

Indonesia / Malaysia / Singapore Celeste Heiter

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Bali's new-age yogis

Bali profits from business of soul-searching, spiked recently with the publication of Elizabeth G...

Indonesia AFP/Angela Dewan

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Charles Baker's Drunken Oriental Junket

An NPR interviewer once asked writer David Sedaris why he had left New York and moved to Paris. H...

Indonesia / Thailand / Japan Kenneth Champeon

Curiosity Kills the Cat

Roads Taken...At Cinequest 2007

This year's Asian entries in the 17th annual San Jose Cinequest Film Festival all seem to focus o...

Indonesia / Vietnam / China Celeste Heiter

Aproaching Lake Toba on the switchback road south from Medan.

TOBA, TOBA, TOBA

Clouds of clove-scented cigarette smoke, diesel fumes, second-hand air: it takes a few gusts of f...

Indonesia Philip Game

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