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Study abroad, neoliberal education, and lockdown students
I’m putting this together for my students at the University of the Philippines Open University who missed our video conference this term. A friend had suggested I teach at UPOU after returning from my studies abroad. I said yes to one semester, while working for an American newswire and hustling for commissioned international projects. A […]
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That Day I Arrived in London
The day I arrived in London in 2018, nobody was around to welcome me at the airport, unlike most times I landed in a new home. In Singapore, it was my sister who was at the gates to hug me. In California, there were three relatives. In Aarhus (Denmark), our landlady was waiting outside the […]
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Shooting Memories, Robert Frank’s Street Photography, and Why I’m Not on Instagram
The California that is exhausted of how the political situation has impinged on private lives, but recently managed to surpass the United Kingdom as the fifth largest economy in the world.
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Asia’s Dragon Rises
By 2025 global political power will shift towards the east. As of 2018, super power China and other major powers have the strongest influence in Asia. In seven years, the world’s most powerful states will be in Asia. If you want to see where the center of global political economy is heading, look east. In 2018, […]
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GDP Per Head in Three Asian Powers Catches Up With Europe’s Big Three
In 2013 Singapore overtook the United States in GDPPC for the first time, and continued to stay above it in 2014.
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Who Will Fill the Wine Glass After Brexit?
On a Wednesday evening, a middle-aged Englishman enters a wine shop on St. John Street in Clerkenwell, London with an empty bottle. Anne-France Leray takes the bottle with a smile, refills it from an oak barrel taller than them and wraps it gently with craft paper before putting it in a paper bag.
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Four Reasons to Go on a Safari in Your Lifetime
The world is enormous and there are so many things to see and do that sometimes itcan be a little overwhelming. There are some things I’ve always wanted to do, and have managed to tick off my bucket list, like parasailing in Boracay, and others that are still on my list that I hope to […]
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If Only We Knew How to Save a Life
Anthony I wish I could say that I was a hardcore fan of Anthony Bourdain. That chef with lovely lines on his face, sinewy arms covered in tattoos, and a wild crown of silver hair. I wish I could say I had read his Kitchen Confidential and watched every episode of Parts Unknown. But sadly, […]
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Russian and the Rain
Spring. I was in search of a new house and saw one advertised online. After texting the owner, I walked for an hour under the drizzle-rain combo toward a house at the south side of the UC Berkeley campus. When I arrived, there seemed to be a mistake: neither the house nor its rooms were […]
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