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I recently watched Resident Evil, and with news of an outbreak from Russia, I went looking for interesting content and found the origin of “Quarantine”.
Did you know that before humans had Monopoly, chess or the board games we play today, the ancient Egyptians were already playing one 5,000 years ago?
Sigiriya, the palace in the sky, is one of Sri Lanka's most famous World Heritage sites, built atop a rock more than 200 metres high.
Bo bi kuay (无米粿) originated in the Teochew area of Guangdong, China. The name literally means “kuay with no rice”, whatever the filling.
Siam and China had traded for centuries, but Chinese began settling in Thailand in large numbers in the late Qing dynasty.
Chicken rice comes from Wenchang on Hainan, an island in southern China.
To my Thai-Chinese friends: have you ever wondered whether your grandparents' migration stories are part of one of history's biggest migrations?
It started when I was wandering around Kinmen Island on Google Street View and came across an interesting roundabout called Badalouzi (八達樓子).
To my Thai-Chinese friends: have you ever heard stories about your grandfather when he was young?
How did people court each other in the old days, before apps like Tinder, Omi or CMB? I'm sure everyone has wondered!
When we talk about ‘British’ culture, it is impossible not to think of “drinking tea”.
If you have studied world history since ancient times, you will be familiar with a theme that appears again and again in the historical record.