Article Archive for December 2009
The new year is just around the corner and so TheAsianWomen wishes everyone a blessed and prosperous new year. Here in Asia, only a few countries celebrate Christmas but almost all Asian countries enjoy the …
The old term Indochina, in its wider sense, is highly appropriate for mainland Southeast Asia, which is very much a zone of transition between India and China. Physically it is a region of north-south-trending mountain …
Evolution has taken place in the music scene, and we’re only bound to go further.
In the 1990s, the music scene was only beginning to heat up. Most of the bands’ focus was to …
Making it in the music scene is more than a matter of ‘dreams come true.’ History tells us that from the early rock formation to the digital age, the musicians are only one part of …
Albay music scene. My first encounter with it, I remember, was when my friend Ahmad, the front man of The Pepsi Paloma Experiment, told me that the person who had just passed by us used …
You wake up one morning and discover you need a new coffee maker. In the old days, you would have to run down to a shopping center and spend a lot of time doing comparison …
Coffee has become one of the most socially popular drinks in the civilized world over the last millennium. Today, there are countless choices one has to choose from when deciding what type of coffee maker …
The Filipino brand of resilience is peculiar. It is incomprehensible to many and not a few view it as grotesque. Yet, it has an attraction that leaves the heart of a sharp observer light and …
Enter any major bookstore in Manila today—except for the posh ones that exclusively cater to the “A” market—and you will find a few shelves, if not an entire section, packed with small, slim volumes of …
Passing away several years ago in her New York apartment at the ripe old age of 106, the late Madame Chiang Kai Shek’s circumstances at the time of her death were a far cry from …
The number of liberated Asian women has increased tremendously over the past decade. Globalization has triggered the liberation of Asian women from too much conservatism and gave way for Asian women to assert their rights. …
