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Transcending Tragedy at Cinequest 2010

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Now in its 20th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held each year in San Jose, Calif., presents a global smorgasbord of independent films by visionary filmmakers.

Destinations: India | Tibet | Singapore | Uzbekistan
Topics: Culture | People | Religion | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | Art | Ancient History
"I would not want to waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum" Frances Willard - 1893

Vientiane on bended knees

Lee Alvin - oldyonfoldy [801]

A colorful journey on 20" wheels, across the land of a thousand smiles into the land where time moves slower. A rich experience of meeting people, and sampling the tapestry of cultures and history that Vientiane offers. Truly charmed!

Destinations: Malaysia | Indonesia | Indochina | Singapore | Vietnam | Cambodia | Laos | Thailand
Topics: Travel | Adventure | 20th Century History | Ecotourism | Food | Architecture
The construction of homes remain unchanged. Reeds and Bamboo are used in the construction. The floor is mud caked into somewhat of a rigid structure, which serves as sleeping quarters

An Unexpected Visit to the Original People of Kerala

Yehuda Kovesh - cochinjew [237]

The Forest Dwelling Tribal People of Kerala are a distinct group of people, living in their world, as they have done for thousands of years. In the current rush to modernize unevenly in an India,...

Destinations: Malaysia | Burma | Singapore | Vietnam | India | Cambodia
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | 20th Century History | Traditions | Art | Culture | Food | People | Nature | Ancient History | Architecture
Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter in Paradise Road

Film Review: Paradise Road

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Film Review: Paradise Road by Celeste Heiter   How silent is this place The brilliant sunshine filters through the trees The leaves are rustled by a gentle breeze A wild and open space By shrubs...

Destinations: Malaysia | Indonesia | Japan | Singapore
Topics: People | Literature | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War

No Blood For Rubber

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644]

Review of Jonathan Marshall's To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War, University of California Press, 1995.

Destinations: Singapore | Japan | Vietnam
Topics: Economy | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
Dani village in the Kurulu area, Baliem valley, Papua Barat, Indonesia

Baliem valey's mummies

Carlo Ottaviano Casana - cocasana [40]

Wim Tok Mabel's mummy held by one of his descendant. Apparently the mummy is 362 years old. Wim Tok Mabel was a "big man" and everybody in the valley wanted his advices. Even nowadays somebody is...

Destinations: Malaysia | Indonesia | Singapore | Hong Kong | Mekong River | Cambodia | Laos | Burma | Indochina | Maldives | Thailand
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | 20th Century History | Art | Photography | People | Religion | War & Conflict | Ancient History | Animals | Traditions | Ecotourism | Culture | Food | Working Abroad | Architecture

Singaporean Chinese or Chinese Singaporean?

Diana Tan - dtan [1,370]

Singapore is a hardly noticeable dot on the world map. To those who know Singapore it is but a thriving modern and cosmopolitan city. Its government is known for having the highest level of honesty...

Destinations: Singapore
Topics: Culture | People | 20th Century History | Traditions

Historical Hill

Helen Conway - hconway [954]

The steps were cut into the hillside. They were steps up which I might ordinarily have been able to saunter. And the hill was not that high. But Singapore's equatorial climate was in full force and I...

Destinations: Singapore
Topics: Travel | 20th Century History
The Sultan of Johor signing the agreement to "rent" Singapore to the British. In the photo is (from left to right) Tengku Ali (Sultan Hussein's son), Sultan Hussein (Sultan of Johor), Major William Farquhar, Temenggung Abdul Rahman (another claimant to the Johor throne) and Sir Stamford Raffles.

Images of Singapore

Ee Lin Wan - eelin [4,107]

Images of Singapore is an interactive museum situated in Sentosa Island. To merely describe it as a museum is a great injustice. With its lively 3-Dimension wax figurines, interactive features...

Destinations: Singapore
Topics: Culture | 20th Century History
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