Culture

On All Saints’ Day, Philippine mountain town honours dead with fire

Relatives burning pinewood sticks next to the graves of loved ones as part of a tradition called Panag-aapoy (”to light a fire”) in Sagada, the Philippines.

New slang in Japan has an unlikely source: South Korea

Thanks to the success and influence of South Korea’s cultural exports, the Korean language is seeping into Japan’s youth culture.

Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society moves to new campus in Bras Basah-Bugis arts district

PM Lawrence Wong at the new campus of Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society on Oct 31.

After Louvre heist and string of thefts, Europe’s smaller museums are on guard

Paintings by Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were stolen, then recovered, from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum in Mamiano, Italy.

3 dead as ‘fairy chimney’ rock spires collapse at tourist site in Turkey’s Cappadocia

Turkey’s Cappadocia region is home to exquisite rock formations known as “fairy chimneys”.

Field Notes from Tokyo

The enduring intimacy of writing by hand in digital Japan

Kengo Hirose, 21, opened the by-reservation-only Mechanical Pencil Museum in Kyoto. It displays rare, discontinued models from the 1960s to 1980s.

Letter From Washington

Young Chinese Americans are rallying around a fading Chinatown. Why?

Zhu Simin (right), who was born in China and moved to the US, tending to her Chinese tea booth at the Mid-Autumn Festival night market at Washington, DC’s Chinatown Park in September.

What if cultural understanding were taught at uni, rather than assumed?

Students in Return Of Return, the SMU production that gave rise to the undergraduate course Choreographing the City-State: Dance and Multiculturalism in Singapore.

Forum: Social and reading hub can also host performing arts programmes

From dance to clean-air shelters: How South-east Asians are turning haze anger into action

A woman in traditional South Sumatran wedding clothes dancing in a burnt out forest near Palembang, Indonesia, as part of a performance art piece by art collective Jaga Api.

E-paper

Newsletters

Podcasts

RSS Feed

About Us

Terms & Conditions

Personal Data Protection Notice

Need help? Reach us here.

Advertise with us

中文版 (beta)

MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.