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This won’t work out in Singapore or China
First, it will eat up the resources we have in trying to enforce security down in any area affected. We, as Asians will also always get the situation to become too rowdy because we watch too much CNN. Actually, these kind of activities are heavily frown upon, and form of such activities must first be [...]
Mar 2008 - May 2008 news of China’s Heritage and Archaeology
Race against time to save relics
Terracotta figures in Xi’an suffer slight damage
Historic, cultural relics to undergo repair work
China to investigate cultural relic damages in quake zones
Age-old heritage site victim of quake in SW China
Qianmen St. to be ready before Olympics
Temples stand the test of time
China’s Inner Mongolia undertakes most ambitious Great Wall survey, repair
Renovation of [...]
International Museum Day 2008 theme “Museums as agents of social change and development”
In my four years here in Shanghai, I had never once remembered the celebration of International Museum Day. Either because I was busy, not in town, or simply just gaming till I passed that day. And days later, after reading old newspaper of previous days, I will sulk really bad alone at how I can [...]
Singaporean photographers you may never hear about
On the last day of my trip to HCM, I went to the Vietnam War Memorial, and I came upon some archives materials on photographers who died in Vietnam War. There were about 135 photographers from all over the world, who endangered their lives right in front of the battlefield, in order to report about what was going [...]
