Letter From The Bureau

Letter From Kuala Lumpur

Step away from the malls to find the soul of KL’s historic city centre

A construction worker during restoration work on a heritage building facade at Medan Pasar in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 13.

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.

Letter From Cambodia

Uprooted by war, displaced Cambodians build new life in Waiting Village

Sun Samnoeun, who lost her house and land in the Thai-Cambodian border conflict, with her husband and children at their temporary home set up by the Cambodian government for those displaced.

Letter From Tumpat

400km overnight run for Kelantan breakfasts in KL

Eager customers choose from a selection of packed Kelantanese breakfasts and kuih at Gerai Makene eatery, the biggest buyer of Kelantanese food in the Klang Valley area.

Letter From Kuala Lumpur

Sweating in KL: Inside Malaysia’s growing Hyrox fixation

Hyrox veteran Chan Kheng Fai pushing 125 kg during a training session at MORPH KLGCC in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 14.

Letter From Guizhou

That matcha in your cup? It probably didn’t come from Japan

The Gui Tea plantation is one of the largest matcha farms in China’s Guizhou province, which is known as the matcha capital of China.

Letter from Jakarta

Indonesia’s cinema boom is finding audiences in unexpected places

Inside a 31-seat micro-cinema located on the second floor of a minimarket in Gading Serpong, Banten, on the outskirts of Jakarta.

Letter from Shanghai

From Genshin Impact to Arknights: What drives China’s mobile games industry?

Fans of various mobile games such as Arknights dressed up for the Hypergryph Carnival held in Shanghai in August 2026.

Letter from Phu Quoc

The next Bali or Jeju? Vietnam’s biggest isle aims to become a ‘global island destination’

The Venetian Canal inside the Grand World Phu Quoc entertainment complex.

Letter From Yamagata

Why the Japanese are ‘drifting away’ from their most sacred grain

Rieko Nakaba, director of the Yamagata Integrated Agricultural Research Center Paddy Rice Research Institute, examines a crop.

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