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This Country Is the Happiest Place in East Asia—and It Has Incredible Street Food, Beautiful National Parks, and Bubbling Hot Springs
Taiwan was named the happiest country in the World Happiness Report 2025. The island country stood out with strong marks in perceived and actual benevolence. In Taiwan, travelers can experience ...
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In Museums and the Market, ‘South Asia’s Moment Has Come’
From headline-grabbing sales to institutional exhibitions, South Asian art is in the spotlight of the global art world.
Opinion
Minorities in South Asia: Three founding fathers and their shattered hopes
Great visionaries like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Jogendranath Mandal, and Dhirendranath Datta once envisioned inclusive nation-states — India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh respectively — where minorities ...
Southeast Asia water festivals begin, but earthquake recovery blunts Myanmar’s celebrations
Several Southeast Asian countries are kicking off their annual water festival holiday, an occasion for merrymaking during ...
The Economist3d
Why Asia’s love affair with gold persists
As a result, Asians’ fondness for gold is often attributed to cultural reasons. But India and China are culturally very ...
The Economist3d
The biggest bugs in the new gold rush are Asian
As a result, Asians’ fondness for gold is often attributed to cultural reasons. But India and China are culturally very dissimilar, and South-East Asian countries would chafe at being lumped in with ...