We are the world

It turns out that Israel really is like any other country - a mess

Hard astern, skipper!
Gavin Menzies casts off on another Chinese voyage of historical fancy. Next up: How Zheng He captured the Loch....

How the Buddha survives
Amid glorious illustrations, moving evidence of the sutras' continuing relevance

By the gas pump's red glare
A timely and fascinating survey of global oil's role in lubricating economies, politics and war

A fitting tribute to the crafts of Indonesia
In Indonesia, a country made up of 17,000 islands, a population of 230 million and a number of ethnic....

The man 'Time' magazine named Person of the Century is a topic as big as the universe

Richard Russo, the sage of upstate New York, explains six decades in a life that never graduated from high....

Teenagers in or out of love should make a date with this issue. It offers updates on all the entertainment....

On civil society
Focusing on "the experience of the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI)", this volume....
A tribute to the tusker
As India's pachyderm population declines, there's a nostalgic yearning for the long-lost mystique of....
Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....

Chronicles of a rich heritage
Joop Ave shares his passion for Indonesian handicrafts in his new coffee-table book
Symbolism Decoded
A new book by a former National Museum volunteers unlocks the secrets behind the motifs of Chinese art
A City of Contrasts
An art historian takes a long, hard look at the Venice of the East in a new cultural guide
'Dead' writer talking
Author Peter James, whose tales of a fictional British police detective sell in the millions, is quite at ease....

Richard A Engelhardt
Background: Unesco regional adviser for culture in Asia and the Pacific and coauthor of the recently published....
John Whitehead
Background: director of the British Council in Thailand