Consonant Aspirations

The past few months, I've been learning a language here in Singapore that's been noted for its crazy mind-bending use of  tone san...

Last week I had a few friends ask me about a recently published study titled "Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry acr...

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary , the English word hotel  was first recorded in the 1640s and denoted a 'public official r...

One of the things I was impressed with during my short stay in Taiwan was the  Taiwan Indigenous Television  (TITV) channel, which feature...

Last month, I was in Taiwan for about a week with Mum. We spent a few days at Sun Moon Lake (日月潭), which we used as a base to visit our p...

I just got to see  Phou-oibi, the Rice Goddess , as part of the  Tapestry of Sacred Music 2013 programme here at the Esplanade in Singapor...

India and its immediate neighbours celebrate not one, not two but... a bewildering number of New Year's Days  (not even counting the on...