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This Little Thing Called Globalization

When I was younger, ah gong used to buy ‘yeor buay’. They came in cans, were quite furry, and inaccurately described by the Chinese manufacturer as ‘arbutus’. Some time in the last few years they disappeared from the shelves in Singapore. I have been looking for them — and have even taken my search to [...]
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Some Tips on Indian Visas

in the Singapore/Malaysia/United Arab Emirates context (i.e. the places where I’ve applied for an Indian visa) Never forget: almost everybody needs a visa to India. The default “tourist” visa you get (I say this as a Singapore citizen) is a 6-month multiple entry visa. It costs S$50 in Singapore. Don’t go to the High Commissions [...]
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iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket

In 2005, a 20 year old newbie backpacker trudged through the Cambodian border at Aranyaprathet on foot and her first instinct was to reach for a stack of paper in her 65L backpack. Just to locate the section, “At the Poi Pet border… expect to pay extra for a Cambodian visa”, and additional instructions on [...]
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Portraits of Yemen

Yemen is all over the news these days for all the wrong reasons. Those of you interested in that sort of thing would do well to read Waq al-Waq as a necessary companion blog to Western reporting on Yemen, which does tend to come across as uninformed and inaccurate most of the time. I still [...]
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How to hack your own travel channel life

Slides from my barcamp presentation: How to hack your own travel channel life View more documents from skinnylatte.
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