Across Cultures

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, call...

One element of my intercultural coaching is talking about the mistakes that I have made in foreign lands. Here's one: In Thailand, the c...

People decide with or without the facts - if you don't get out there and paint your paradigm, someone'll paint it for you. My what? ...

Ich glaube, ein Feldforscher sollte so wenig wie nur möglich in Erscheinung treten. Der beste Feldforscher, den ich kenne, ist meines Eracht...

On Sunday, 19 April 2009, the author J.G. Ballard, 78, who grew up in Shanghai in the 1930s, died after a lengthy illness. Here are some exc...

Do I trust Fox News ? Of course not. Does anybody? What about Asia Times Online (ATol) ? More likely but, well, it is probably not a good id...

A few weeks ago, I decided to spend some days on Ko Samet, an island about three hours by bus from Bangkok. After my first night, I fled to ...