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CHINESE NEW YEAR
/ by OnAsia Photographers. Over the New Year holiday in China, millions and millions of people will travel from work to home or to visit relatives. It's the largest human migration in the world. Chinese communities will be celebrating everywhere; from Hanoi to San Francisco, from Taipei to Washington D.C. Firecrackers, feasting,...
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YEAR OF THE TIGER
/ By OnAsia Photographers. It's the Year of the Tiger, the Metal Tiger to be precise. According to Chinese astrology, the Tiger symbolises courage and protection of the household. This year’s Metal Tiger will apparently add a little backbone and resolve for positive achievement during the coming months. OnAsia has some great images...
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RUSSIAN CIRCUS FINDS NEW HOME IN CHINA
/ By Susetta Bozzi. Ten years ago Galina, the manager of a Russian circus that had fallen on hard times, made a bold decision and moved the circus to China. There she met the survivors of another circus, also in dire straits, based in Sichuan Province which was later destroyed by the violent earthquake in 2008.“ In Russia the...
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THE WORLD’S HOTTEST CHILI
/ by Jerry Redfern. It’s the king of chilies; so hot that villagers in the highlands of Northeast India use it to keep wild elephants at bay and Indian defence researchers have experimented with them as a non-lethal way of quelling riots. About a thousand times hotter than your average chili, it goes by many names, King Cobra...
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POST OLYMPIC BLUES
/ by Susetta Bozzi. It feels and looks a bit like post-party blues. After the glitz of the Beijing Olympics, many of the grandiose structures that hosted the games now lie eerily quiet. Stadiums that became architectural icons synonymous with Beijing’s US$ 43 billion Olympic extravaganza stand like solemn museum pieces, reminders...
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SURFIN' SWAMIS
/ by Sanjit Das. Move over California. Make way for India’s surfing swamis, the shaven-headed beach bums who combine the thrill of riding ocean waves with yoga, meditation and Hinduism. Here amidst the palm trees of Mangalore, just an hour’s flight south of Mumbai, the tunes of the Beach Boys have been replaced with chants of...
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TAKING THE EARTH'S TEMPERATURE
/ by Graham Crouch. The United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that by 2035 the glaciers that feed the great rivers of Asia will dry up causing famine and wars over water. The Ministry of Environment in India has denied that the glaciers of the Himalayas are receding abnormally fast, undermining...
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A TOUGH LIFE BEHIND A GLAMOUROUS FACADE
/ by Jae-hyun Seok. By night Abegail is a bikini clad go-go dancer working in the infamous red light area of Angeles City in the Philippines. By day she is just another mother struggling to care for and feed her two children. Just 20 and a single mum, Abegail must find enough money to clothe, feed and eventually educate her...
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ANIMAL SLAUGHTER AT NEPALESE FESTIVAL
/ By Tom Van Cakenberghe. EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Hindu worshipers slaughtered more than 12,000 buffaloes and a large number of other animals in a mass sacrifice to the Hindu goddess Gadhimai in Bariyapur village south of Kathmandu. Members of the local Dalit community, untouchables according to Hindu caste system, then...
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