Saturday, February 20, 2010

Irresistible South East Asia: That Luang - Vientiane, Laos

The people of Laos believe, that Pha That Luang was built in the 3rd century as an Indic Temple. It consist of three levels which upon closer look, reveals a different characteristics of encrypted Buddhist scriptures. ... If i happen to feature an already featured content at bisean, I'm sorry but I'll try to be as different as possible. Contents of the blog will feature most of the Philippines and Thailand. Other South East Asian nations will still be covered though. ...

Friday, February 19, 2010

Mesotherapy » Mesotherapy

Mesotherapy has been used in France and other European countries since the middle of the 20th century to treat conditions such as obesity, hair loss, sports injuries, and certain diseases of the circulation. It has only recently caught ...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Daily News: Cambodia's Fortunes Ebb And Flow Along The Mekong

The Khmer once ruled a vast kingdom that covered not just Cambodia but parts of Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, too. The empire had its capital at Angkor, near the present-day city of Siem Reap in northwest Cambodia. ... Invading armies also came up the Mekong in an effort to conquer the Khmer kingdom in the 12th century, a story told in the bas reliefs at Angkor's Bayon temple. Pyyoak says the Champa, or Cham, came up the Mekong from the south, from what is now Vietnam, ...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

aiyatheydidnt: Photo essay: Welcoming the Year of the Tiger

The number of wild tigers is thought to have dropped from 100000 at the beginning of the 20th century to fewer than 3000 today. In September, the World Bank and Russia will hold a summit on tiger conservation in Vladivostok, .... 20, 2010, a Buddhist monk plays with a young tiger at Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The monastery and its monks are dedicated to conservation and what has become a wildlife sanctuary for tigers. ...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Asian Halal Food: Welcome to Viet Nam

About Me. Asian Halal Food: This blog is about asian halal food information in three particular countries: Thailand, Viet Nam and Singapore. View my complete profile ... Successive dynasties flourished along with geographic and political expansion deeper into Southeast Asia, until it was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century. Efforts to resist the French eventually led to their expulsion from the country in the mid-20th century, leaving a nation divided ...

Monday, February 15, 2010

100 things: #99 - Start a Book Club

witness a total solar eclipse; start a 21st century Bloomsbury Group; get a motorcycle licence and a motorcycle (or Vespa); work in a florist shop; go on a police ride-along; be nude at a nude beach; direct a play; organize a massive ... host a Luminara party; write my name in wet cement; have a speaking role in a feature film; start a garage band; go crazy at a huge rock concert; do a one-month kickboxing training camp in Thailand; experience a working dude ranch ...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

DefExpo: The East India company back in Delhi | Pakistan Daily

The same East India Company of Britain (there were many others) became so powerful that it defeated Nawb Shiraj Ud Daulah at the Battle of Plassey and then ruled South Asia (for about a century). After the war of independence, .... Bharat has disputes with China, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Lanka, Bhutan and Sikkimâ€"literally each and every neighbor. This has lead to unnecessary conflict in South Asia between Bharat and all her neighbors. Holding on to territory and ...