Living in Asia
World Heritage in Danger — India, Pakistan and the Philippines
The World Heritage List includes 890 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage that the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. This list includes 689 cultural, 176 natural and 25 mixed properties in 148 countries. On this list are 31 properties that the World Heritage Committee feels are in [...]
Exploring the Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water in the world. It is even bigger than the Great Lakes in the United States or Lake Victoria in East Africa. This water is located where South-Eastern Europe meets Asia. The Caspian Sea is 1,030 km long, and has a minimum width of 196 km and maximum width of 435 km. Its coastline makes up about [...]
The Best Aquariums of Asia
Underwater World Singapore This aquarium features about 2,500 animals of about 250 different species from around the world. The tanks feature bright corals, rays, sharks, turtles, and hundreds of fishes. This aquarium even offers opportunities to dive and swim with some of the sea creatures! Siam Ocean World Bangkok, Thailand This great [...]
World Heritage in Danger
The UNESCO World Heritage List includes 890 sites around the world that the World Heritage Committee considers ‘have outstanding universal value.’ This means that although they may be important to the heritage of the local residents, they are also significantly important to world heritage. One of the advantages to living overseas is the [...]
Christmas in Asia: South Korea and the Philippines
South Korea About 50% of Koreans are Christian. The other 50% are Buddhist, and they do not celebrate or care about the holiday. Korean Christmas is celebrated differently, depending on the individual. Some go out and do charity work, while others just spend time with their family. Many Koreans have adapted to the Western custom of having [...]
The South China Sea
One of the major seas of Asia is the South China Sea. It exists south of mainland China and Taiwan; west of the Philippines; northwest of Malaysia and Brunei; north of Indonesia; and east of Vietnam. Other countries that lie on this sea include Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. This body of water takes up about a million square [...]
Buddhism Around Asia
Buddhism originated from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, in the region of what is now Nepal and northeastern India, about 26 centuries ago. Buddha, in translation, can mean "the enlightened one" or "the awakened one." Siddhartha went around teaching people how to become enlightened themselves, not trying to indoctrinate anyone directly to his [...]
