I don't know why this photo resonates vis-à-vis this post, but it did. It doesn't matter if they're locals or immigrants -- more...

Sometime around 1916, my great-great grandfather converted to Islam.  Five generations later, nobody in the family knew about it. It wasn...

國破山河在 I have a hankering to learn the oud.  I don't know if it has to be an oud exactly. I'd be perfectly happy with a saz or a kanu...

The photo suits the post and you already know why Two days ago, Donovan Smith wrote a fantastic column on Ma Ying-jeou's entrée into th...

Don't ask how Taiwan should cross the red bridge. Ask whether. Much fuss was made of a recent study in the Journal of Contemporary China...

Everybody seems to think that I'm a fan of Uncle Roger (British-Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng). I suppose this is because I live in Asia, ...