by SubtropicalAsia | Jul 20, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, Music, News
When you think of Thailand, you’re likely to picture the country’s iconic smiles, countless temples, endless fruits and incredibly beautiful islands. Despite those otherwise reductive attributes, it is important to remember that Thailand is not a paradise....
by SubtropicalAsia | Jun 9, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News, Videos
7 PM. Shanghai Changning district. People are busy eating, heading home, or carrying on with their mundane work. But hidden in this ordinary neighborhood there is a mysterious place – a subculture hub that is known throughout the underground scene in Shanghai....
by SubtropicalAsia | Jun 6, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
May 25th, 46 year old George Floyd went into a grocery store in Minneapolis to buy a pack of cigarettes, a fairly ordinary activity that no one would have expected to lead to such tragedy. Suspecting the bill he used to be a counterfeit, employees at the store...
by Joseph Wang | Apr 25, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, News
As history reveals for us, whenever a pandemic transpires, xenophobia is never far behind. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic started in China, there has been a spike in racism towards Asian communities. The offences range from mild inappropriate jokes,...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 17, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, News, Videos
Last winter, we became friends with the Indonesian DJ-Duo Gabber Modus Operandi. In Jakarta, we experienced their crazy live shows, in Bali we had traditional food together and talked a lot about cultural identities in the age of Globalization. We also witnessed...
by Renxiu Zhao | Apr 5, 2020 | COVID-19, CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content, News
On March 7, 2020, Chinese calligraphy artist Qian Geng and experimental musician Wang Ziheng flew from Beijing to Germany, to launch their European tour. At that time, the coronavirus outbreak in China had been controlled to a certain extent, while the outbreak in...
