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Asian Border Traveler: Cockfighting in Upriver Sarawak: E-Gov Makes Things (not quite) Easier
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006. Cockfighting in Upriver Sarawak: E-Gov Makes Things (not quite) Easier. Apai Regang is expected to download a permit in PDF form if he wants to see his cock fight. Map Kapit Division in Sarawak. THE IBANS OF SARAWAK. While travel permit requirements for Ibans were lifted more than 40 years ago, Cockfight Permits made it well into the age of cyberspace. The e-gov website of the Kapit Resident's office is a fancy and well-designed homepage (its sister-website owned by the Kapit...
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Asian Border Traveler: Random Images from Kansai Airport (Osaka)
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Random Images from Kansai Airport (Osaka). Kansai Airport, 9 October, 10:40 A.M. Another airport thingee. Kansai airport, built on an artificial island (built by the Dutch) in the Osaka/Kobe bay, is Japan's second largest hub after Tokyo's Narita airport. I noted one interesting souvenir shop: a Ninja shop. It's quite cool to bring a duty-free Ninja's outfit for display back home, unless you're from Basilan, Maluku, Poso or Pattani. Posted by dlumenta @ 7:31 PM.
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Asian Border Traveler: October 2006
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Tivai Ngang, Punan Busang headman of Long Unai. Retro Fieldnotes from Long Unai, Sarawak, January 2003. While your average Southeast Asian expat has to compensate stress at work with physical workouts at fitness clubs/wellness centers and spas, Tivai doesn't need to. While your average Southeast Asian expat would rarely speak more than 2 languages, Tivai is multilingual and speaks 8 (Punan, Kenyah, Kayan, Iban, Bazaar Malay, Bahasa Indonesia proper, a bit of Banjarese and Foo...
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Asian Border Traveler: Roots of Asian Nationalisms & Globalisation (Notes from a talk by Benedict Anderson)
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006. Roots of Asian Nationalisms and Globalisation (Notes from a talk by Benedict Anderson). WE KEEP ON DISCOVERING NEW THINGS FROM THE PAST, AND CURRENT TRENDS OF TRYING TO BREAK UP HISTORY INTO THESE STUPID BOMBASTIC ADVERTISER-TYPE TIMELINES (E.G."POST-COLD WAR this", "POST-WW II that", "POST-9/11 this") SERVES NOTHING BUT TO OBSTRUCT OUR EFFORTS IN UNDERSTANDING HOW GLOBALIZATION OPERATES". CSEAS Talk - 27 April 2005. Topic: 'Macam Macam' (BA's own words). What was the global ...
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Asian Border Traveler: Suvarnabhumi Int'l Airport (part 2)
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Suvarnabhumi Int'l Airport (part 2). A better look during my second transit at Bangkok's new Suvarnabhumi Int'l airport. Glitch excused (it's 'falang' language after all). Note below the confusing direction signs for immigration and baggage claims:. Posted by dlumenta @ 7:19 PM. Links to this post. Links to this post:. View my complete profile. Lost in Sushi Translations. Suvarnabhumi Intl Airport: Thaksins Last Megapro. Cockfighting in Upriver Sarawak: E-Gov Makes Thing.
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Asian Border Traveler: Burma
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Thursday, October 04, 2007. One has to be blatantly ignorant not to be disturbed by the latest developments in Burma (or Myanmar). Everybody hates the old-school types of military juntas (in fact, is there any nation in this world totally independent of the 'military industrial complex'? Repeated over again - but it's an irony that our pseudo-democracies are endorsing the assumed compatibility between democracy and globalisation. We just hope that all our support for 'freedom' and 'democracy' for the Bur...
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Asian Border Traveler: Suvarnabhumi Int'l Airport: Thaksin's Last Megaproject
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Monday, October 02, 2006. Suvarnabhumi Int'l Airport: Thaksin's Last Megaproject. Bangkok, October 2, midnight. Don Muang's coziness (or crampness some would say) and colourful history (which includes covert Indonesian-Malaysian peace negotiations in 1966, hordes of evacuation flights from Vietnam in 1975, the hijacking of an Indonesian plane in 1981, drug trafficking dramas, etc) has finally come to an end. Enter Suvarnabhumi (pronounced Suwan-na Phoom, 'Land of Gold') International airport. Many smokin...
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Asian Border Traveler: Tips for Hunting Dji Sam Soe Abroad
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Friday, September 22, 2006. Tips for Hunting Dji Sam Soe Abroad. The Dji Sam Soe brand (pronounced G SAHM SOO), produced in the Indonesian port city of Surabaya since 1913, is considered by many as Indonesia's ultimate clove cigarette. Filterless and handrolled, containing a blend of American and Javanese tobacco, flavoured with Sulawesi cloves, the brand's ownership has recently shifted to, yes, Philip Morris (after PM bought out the majority of PT. H.M. Sampoerna's stocks in 2004/2005). Clove cigarette...
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Asian Border Traveler: Macau's Lesser-known Aliens
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Monday, December 25, 2006. Macau dawn at Rua da Felicidade. Macau, 25 Dec 2006 / Chek Lap Kok Int'l airport, 26 Dec 2006. Embedded in the influx of migrant workers is the entire social baggage and supporting system: Filipino convenient stores, Pinoy internet cafes, money remittance agencies, etc. A Pinoy ad.and problem. Signs of Indon presence in Macau. Echoes of Dear Chairman, once influential in Macau during the 1960s. Posted by dlumenta @ 10:30 PM. Links to this post. Links to this post:.
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Asian Border Traveler: Deglobalised in a Gion Heterotopia
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Friday, March 16, 2007. Deglobalised in a Gion Heterotopia. Kyōto, Gion, 15/03/2007 - 15:33. A Greek friend of mine defined it as ' a site where numerous objects (commodities, peoples, cultural ideas) that (logically) shouldn't be together are converging, seizing, interacting within a single space at a certain time. All these processes that are now celebrated as 'Globalisation' : borders opening up, people coming together and the instantaneous embracing of 'multiculturalism'.or so they said. Or similarly...