A growing number of Japanese women are giving up on their male counterparts, and taking a gamble that looking abroad for love will bring them the qualities in a partner that seem rare at home.
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Orientalism is a powerful idea in Western culture. It has associations with being strange, foreign, representing the Other. It conjures up images of an ancient society, filled with squinty-eyed inscrutable men with long queues, willowy …

Speech delivered by: Arnold Clavio of GMA7
As part of my investigative work on the current situation of our youth in the country today, I met Sheila, then a promising 16-year old high school student. After …

Speech delivered by: Francis Kong
It seems that our country is very confused. We seem to have our priorities mixed up. It has been observed that while the rest of the world is breaking records in …

Speech delivered by: Dr. Cielito F. Habito
When I entered government service, I had to shed my “economist hat” and become more holistic in my approach in looking at our country’s development. In a sense, our …

Doors of National Culture Center in Beijing, rumors and disputes about which long were tearing the audience, have opened for the premier show in front of selected audience: government officials, construction workers and VIP guests.

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During the International Invitational Boxing Tournament held in Beijing on 17-22 November, not many fans showed up and Chinese athletes didn’t get any medals, despite quite big number representing national team. That confirmed the fact …

Charice Pempengco, a native of the Philippines is a young singer who achieved fame through YouTube when one of her fans posted her jaw dropping videos.
Charice Pempengco started joining singing competition in the Philippines when …

Western men and Asian ladies seem to have special attraction to each other that does not exist between western ladies and Asian men, or western men and African ladies. Sometimes referred to as “yellow fever”, …

“In a culture that idolizes sons and dreads the birth of daughters, to be born female comes perilously close to being born less than human”, the Indian government conceded in a recent report by its …

Experiencing Hanoi Firsthand
It was October of 2006 when we went to Hanoi. We planned this trip a few months back. With anticipation, I looked forward to traveling to this city with only a vague idea …

Many studies have already been conducted on Asian women in the labor markets. Basically, the studies deal with their conditions in their places of work, the dynamics of the family left behind and how these …