Payment for ecosystem services
Thinking about conservation in economic terms.
Trop Picks: Orientalist science
Victorian botanists thought that orchids were "decadent" because they produced so many seeds but no progeny.
The sacred grove
On indigenous conservation practices.
Passions of the cut sleeve
A love story.
A primer for scientists: How to win friends and influence people
The challenges of effective science communication.
Red scare
What’s old is new again.
Trop Picks: Darwin’s orchids
Darwin, orchids and intelligent design.
The Line: Do immigrants reduce social capital in a society?
Get your subaltern take on the issues of the day, while you do your ironing or whatever.
Can China project soft power through its film industry?
Two film scholars discuss China’s film industry.
Lessons from an earlier global age
What Islam can teach us about globalization.
Lotus silk: Ahimsa in action
A non-violent alterenative to mulberry silk.
The great escape
Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha at brunch.
If Hong Kong can’t, then who can?
Even in a global city, globalization works for a select few.
The Line: Chinese immigration in Southeast Asia
Exploring lessons from other histories of immigration.
Whither Asia in the era of Trump
What does the new president bode for the US-Asia relationship?
How one Asian filmmaker deals with the censors
An interview with Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong.
Abundance vs. scarcity
An interview with Min Xuan Lee and Karen Yeo of Singapore’s Playmoolah.
An education
Around Asia, elites are rethinking what it means to be “educated.”
Sticky (it-to-the-Man) Rice
Rice of resistance.
The Line: Are we hardwired for tribalism?
Get your subaltern take on the issues of the day, while you do your ironing or whatever.