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Cantonese Flirting: Innocent Words, Dirty Meanings

If you don’t speak Cantonese, flirting in Hong Kong sounds almost aggressively innocent. People ask if you’ve eaten, whether you’re tired, if you’re free...

‘Forgotten Lives’: When Seniors Die Alone

In Singapore, a city often praised for efficiency, safety and social order, a quieter and more unsettling phenomenon has been growing in the shadows:...

Third Gender: Recognition Without Respect

In a country where gender has long been treated as destiny, the legal and social standing of transgender persons in India sits at a...

Inside Thailand’s Hidden Naturist Movement

In Thailand, a country globally branded through images of sexual permissiveness yet governed by deeply conservative public norms, the idea that nudity could be...

The Women of Balibago Red-Light District

Balibago wakes up late and goes to sleep even later. By mid-afternoon, when the heat over the province of Pampanga begins to soften, the...

If Intimacy Has Nowhere to Go

“Love on a Sunday schedule” is not a metaphor in Hong Kong. For many Filipina and Indonesian domestic workers, it is a precise description...

When Europe Profited From Trafficked Chinese Girls

In the shadowy underbelly of Asia’s most prosperous colonial ports, a gendered trade flourished long before the term “human trafficking” entered law books or...

The Treaty That Asian Male-led Governments Fear

When the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, better known as CEDAW, was adopted by the United Nations General...

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