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Asia briefing
Cambodia keeps politics in the family, South Korea get equal, and Japan gets green vending machines
Cambodia keeps politics in the family, South Korea get equal, and Japan gets green vending machines
A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.
Cambodia's embrace of capitalism, congestion busting Chinese-style and election watch Laos.
New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.
Urban farming in Japan, Korea's mission to put its cuisine on the map, and farewell to to Cambodia's "bamboo" railways.
Japan's dapper finance minister is style leader this issue. Plus elections in Cambodia and cruising around Asia.
Monday 5 December
The director of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was in Phnom Penh the other day, for the biggest international meeting that Cambodia has probably ever held.
Africa's first high-speed rail network, Cambodia's "bamboo" railway upgrade and China's ambitious aviation plans.
We report on an urban farming project at Osaka train station, the first verticle farm in Singapore and the sad fate of Cambodia's colonial and "new Khmer" buildings.
Tuesday 10 May
There was a whopping great elephant in the room at last weekend’s annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta. Though the region’s leaders spoke, as they do, about peace and co-operation…
Friday 20 January
Back in the mid-noughties, I used to laugh when people said that Singapore was expensive.
Friday 6 August
The Industrial Designers Society of America’s annual International Conference brings some 600 designers, engineers and professional thinkers from around the world to Portland this weekend.
How the citizens of Phnom Penh can expect to stay dry next monsoon, plus India's plans to put people in space and Indonesia's ambitions to become a green-transport pioneer.
American cigars, Japanese micro sites and innovative Irish forest technology
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