Saturday, 27 February 2010

PEOPLE

CONNIE VENERACION
When you walk the streets of Singapore, prowl the malls or ride in the train, it isn’t unusual to overhear conversations in Filipino. There are, after all, about a hundred thousand Filipinos in Singapore.
AWANG GONENG
A Malaysian author remembers the people who lived where the land met the sea, before Trengganu became Terengganu.
MARCK RIMORIN
A well thought-out strategy on urban farming may help rebuild the lives of flash flood victims.
EDWIN KOO
Overnight, more than two million in the "Switzerland of the East" find themselves homeless in their own country as the Pakistani government wages an all-out war against the Taliban.
MARK B. JACOBS
A volunteer group hopes pen pals will help break down barriers between India and Pakistan.
MELANIE HILARIO
With a Wall Street address and wisdom beyond his years, Mohammed Omar Faruk tells asia! how business can take care of the world.
CARMELA MENDOZA
We are made of stories. We recount them, understand them, remember them, and live them.
CHIA MING CHIEN
For three people, with more than 75 years of martial arts training between them, the fighting arts have transformed into music, movement and meditation. Chia Ming Chien traces their journeys.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
If the Nazis won, Hitler might have proclaimed their new empire Iran.
LEE HAN SHIH
Her birth name may embody the communist spirit but she has proven a capitalist  through and through. Meet Wendi Deng Murdoch, the woman behind the world's most powerful media mogul.