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English may be widely spoken here, but a conversation is still going to make no sense, if you don't know some of these terms.
The asia! team
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For returning Indians, a must-read to ward off culture shock. To everyone else, this will help you scratch the surface of this country that charms and frustrates anyone who dares venture forth.
AMREEKANDESI
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They fled the bloodshed and political turmoil. But for Bangladeshis who have come home, there is a huge challenge ahead of them.
SALEEM SAMAD
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Decades after the end of colonisation, it remains embedded in the culture of the colonised. Case in point: the English in India.
JADED16
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After a two-hour flight, the writer wakes up to the Taiwanese capital and its many quirks.
JOSE DALISAY, JR.
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Violence, drugs and weapons. Life in Down Under's glitziest city may not be that different from that in the jungles of Burma.
HLA OO
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Violence, drugs and weapons. Life in Down Under's glitziest city may not be that different from that in the jungles of Burma.
HLA OO
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The Good Friday night procession at St Joseph's Church is one of a kind in Singapore.
JEROME LIM
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Shanghai may have recently announced a one-dog policy to curb its canine population, but it’s throwing open its doors to certain rodents.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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Will you get married in a McDonald’s? Some couples in Hong Kong, well, they do.
SUZIE LEUNG
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What makes a home? To one child, it’s of a leaky roof, a scary outhouse for a toilet and the sound of cock crows at the break of dawn.
YVONNE LEE
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Check it out before you check into it. That seems to be the moral of this traveller's tale.
VEIALU
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This has to be the oldest petrol pump in Singapore. But where is it?
VICTOR KOO
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Children are exempt from the mandatory helmet law in Vietnam, which has one of the highest rates of traffic deaths in the world.
MARTHA ANN OVERLAND
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Chasing thrills and spills, I took the Loop-the-Loop roller coaster in Bangkok – where my spectacles flew off.
JEROME LIM
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