Content tagged with “asia”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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? ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ The Orient technically means anything east of Europe – basically, Asia. It comes from the Latin ‘oriens’ which literally means ‘east.’ In the Western world, we have traditionally associated it with the Far East (again, relative to Europe) counties, such as Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. ”

“ This is a covered litter – essentially an enclosed chair or couch suspended between poles which is carried by at least two humans, while they walk. It’s either carried on the shoulders, or by hand at the waist. Historically, it was used to carry people of importance in Eastern Asia. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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