Majestic Hotel Melaka lobby. Image © Mike Aquino, used with permission. When European colonists were in charge of Southeast Asia’s capitals, they built clones of their own cities back home,…
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ActivitiesSoutheast Asia’s Former Colonial Outposts
Tourists walking through Kampong Glam, Singapore. Image © Mike Aquino, used with permission. The Europeans who steadily took over Southeast Asia in the 16th century were only the most recent…
ActivitiesSurprising Cities for Meetings
Singapore’s Changi Airport. Image © Mike Aquino The MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, and Exhibitions/Events) situation in Southeast Asia is rapidly changing in surprising ways. As the world’s attention turns to…
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Pie tee. Image © Mike Aquino The Peranakan people could only have come from Southeast Asia. Descended from the ancient intermarriage between visiting Chinese traders and women from the Malay…