BROWSE COUNTRIES/ TERRITORIES
Food and Recipe
Stroke or Stir-fry?
Dog owners in China have become an economic and social force to be reckoned with these days. But therein, too, lies the risks. theasiamag.com investigates.
The News Sampler Menu, May 4, 2009
Fresh this week is our Super-Size Asian menu, as we present the Asian countries that have been graded on various international rankings! Comes free with the world's favourite beer. (Well, sort of.)
- SAMPLERS
- Outside Asia
- Japan
- Iran
- South Korea
- Philippines
- Middle East/West Asia
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- North Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Definition: Culture
- Economy and Economics
- Food and Recipe
- Social Injustices and Poverty Report
- Society, Class and Division
- About Elly
- Asghar Farhadi
- cloning
- Film Festivals
- films
- Islamic extremism
- Leisure
- OECD
- rankings
The elixir of youth
Forget Botox. When it comes to preserving their looks, Asians have always turned to the Indian Pennyworth.
SPAM, I am
While Melanie Hilario keeps her Spam consumption a secret, she embraces other Spam-eaters as culinary siblings.
INSTANT NOODLES
Everything on instant noodles in theasiamag.com's Cheat Sheets.
Feeding the hungry giant (Part 2 of 2)
How will China, a nation with 22% of the world’s population but with only 9% of the world’s arable land, continue to feed her people?
A wet and salty treat
"Daddy, what are we having for dinner?" we asked. My mother was in the hospital and my eight-year-old brother, my father, and I were on our own for food. What could three people who did not know how to cook, cook? We’d never made anything more than simple sandwiches.
How Wen Jiabao likes his noodles
Fearing political unrest due to runaway inflation, China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has made scapegoats out of noodle makers.
If you knew ramen like I know ramen
Around 300 AD the Chinese made wheat flour noodles. They never patented the idea and the humble noodle travelled east to Korea and Japan with the spread of trade and Buddhism.
Vegan? Here, have some leaves
Does eating a special diet mean that you have to take your kitchen with you in a cabin bag? It is time for people with specific food requirements to stand up and be counted.
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- Conservation of the Environment
- Definition: Culture
- Economy and Economics
- Food and Recipe
- Geopolitics and Strategic Relations
- Health and Body
- Of Government and Politics
- Religion and Practices
- Social Injustices and Poverty Report
- Society, Class and Division
- Unrest, Conflicts and Wars
AT A GLANCE A quick insight to the top stories
A tale of two terminals
Instant noodles rule the world!
Nano car. Big questions. (Part 1 of 2)
"The West Wing": Season Eight, unscripted
The elixir of youth
Death by mining - A Third World affair
A tale of two bronzes
Chasing the sun
SPAM, I am
Life, unscripted
India's silent gender cleansing
Bhutan: Weaving a future
Fight of the moon goddesses
The wretched act of animal release
A flare-up over going solar
Disappearing deity
Villages jump on the Internet Bus
Bridging the digital divide
Does communication save lives?
Singaporeans rise to the occasion
Flight of the Kiwi
Crossing the Muslim-Buddhist divide for love
Singing to read
Fascinating Asia by Rail
10 Eco-Myths Busted
Another Point
From Jerusalem to the West Bank