Topic: Southeast Asia
A traditional form of weaving by Bedouin women and a healing prayer sung by Peru's Huachipaire people were added Friday to UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage" in need of preservation.In all, envoys on Indonesia's resort island of Bali this week picked 11 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jesmyn Ward won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for "Salvage the Bones," about a poor Mississippi family confronting Hurricane Katrina, while Stephen Greenblatt took the nonfiction prize for "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern."Ward, ...
In the fantasy world created by Philippine publishing giant Precious Hearts Romances, the men are rich, sexual promiscuity and homosexuals are taboo, and the story always ends happily after 128 pages.The ultra-cheap local versions of Mills and Boon novels are the country's ...
The longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize was announced Monday, with Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, heading an Indian-dominated field.Six titles by Indian authors were named on the 10-strong list vying for Asia's answer ...
Johanna Skibsrud wins Canadian literature award for novel about Vietnam war veteranJohanna Skibsrud, the daughter of a Vietnam war veteran who wrote a fictional book about a veteran, has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards.Skibsrud won the Scotiabank Giller Prize ...
It was here that Le Ly Hayslip spent her formative years, and forms the setting for "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. In "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places", the reader learns the plight of the Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War ...
Maps offer a wonderful plethora of ideas and inspiration for even the most basic of authors. Could a map of the North East in the 1930's been the inspiration of one of the great masters of horror, Howard Phillip Lovecraft? While it's ...
So you are writing a book? However, if you are going to write a book, you need to have some sort of plan, and some focus that you are going to go with to write your book. Are you going to write ...
, or Mun ma gub kwam mud or It Comes Out of the Darkness ) is a 1971 Thai science fiction musical action drama film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol , about an invasion by extraterrestrial beings in Thailand. It was the first ...
Tree of Smoke is a conflict in Vietnam and must try to overcome the confusion of war. Johnson, a poet, ex-junkie and adventure journalist, has written a book that by the end wraps around you as tightly as a jungle snake. " ...
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WORLD TRAVEL.- SOUTHEAST ASIA
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