Content tagged with “asia” under “The Interesting List”

“ For a couple of decades, there was a bus service from London to Calcutta, India. It took almost two months. ”

“ Scam call center operating from East Asia hold victims’ passports and keep them in debt bondage, while presenting themselves – and even internally operating – as legitimate businesses. ”

“ It gets so cold in Siberia, that you can repair a ship’s hull by letting it freeze in a river, then cutting out the ice around it. ”

“ An building catering to the diamond trade in India has surpassed the Pentagon to become the largest office building in the world. ”

“ A South Korean company is bottling water from the demilitarized zone between North and South, claiming purity because that land has been uninhabited for almost 70 years. ”

“ There is an area of the Sahara desert that no country will claim because it would require affirming a border which would exclude more valuable land. So it belongs to no one. ”

“ The Cambodian language is notoriously hard to type. So the speakers just…don’t. ”

“ Over a hundred years ago, Chinese immigrants settled in the Mississippi Delta. Their descendants still live in the Deep South. ”

“ Lots of novel viruses keep coming out of China because of unique factors that cause a wide variety of animal species to come into close physical contact. ”

“ The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has a mustache that reminds Koreans of Imperial Japanese leaders. This has upset some Koreans. ”

“ A family lives in the decaying ruins of a hunting lodge in India, claiming they are royalty, and demanding their land back. How much of the story is true? ”