It looks like a fun ride, but this weekly round with the elephant might actually also be a way to extort the vendors of Sreemongal, in Bangladesh. The elephant gets watermelons (or grabs them himself), and he receives money also. Who’s... Read The Rest →
In the center of Dhaka, there is Korail: the Bengali capital’s largest and longest-standing informal settlement of between 40.000 and 100.000 poor people who came to occupy the brackish ground more than 20 years ago. They work in the nearby center... Read The Rest →
They dare to call their artists collective in Lisbon ‘Atelier Concorde’. Whoever wants to be named after the most glamorous, super-sonic aircraft ever made, must have ambition. Founders Nuno Gueifao, Francisca Carvalho and Pedro Faria certainly have. In Portugal, grants for cultural... Read The Rest →
In this video journalist Mário Alves talks about questions many Portuguese worry about in these times of crisis. I had a drink with him at the fabulous Miradouro of Adamastor in Lisbon. In his opinion his fellow Portuguese should dare a bit more... Read The Rest →
Artist Kasia Korczak, 34, from Poland, has been living in Brussels for two and a half years, after having lived in Paris, London and Arnhem. With her art collective Slavs and Tatars she explores Eurasia and presents her findings in Brussels,... Read The Rest →
Mindanao is the second largest of the 7107 islands which together form the Philippines. Five percent of the population here is Muslim, a small minority in the Catholic Philippines. Islamic resistance movements oppose harsh discrimination with armed conflict, murder, kidnapping, bombs, and claim independence for Mindanao. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 the Philippine President receives additional military aid from the U.S. to tackle those... Read The Rest →
