Personal Names in Asia
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Northeast Hinterland captures evocative and thought-provoking night scenes of Punggol – a northeastern suburb that...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Nights of the Dark Moon is a collection of 13 dark folktales compiled from around Asia, with two bonus stories fro...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Seemingly safe on the surface, sunny Singapore has seen its fair share of murders that run the gamut from pre-med...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In the fourth installment of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective series set in east coast Malaysia,...
View full detailsDescription About the Author A collection of short stories in two groups. “First” relates closely to the Singapore of the 1990s when an old way...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territ...
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View full detailsDescription This 2009 second edition of the 2000 study of the beliefs of Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) includes a new afterword by the author. The ext...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Life in the HDB heartlands of Singapore can be a real bitch. Especially when everyone out there wants to eat your ...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Created in 1955 by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, the loveable white rabbit Miffy continues to charm children and adults...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The novel is set in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes. Married to weal...
View full detailsDescription About the Author After the enormous success of Jakarta Undercover, Moammar Emka is back with more on the seedy nightlife and underg...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Island in the Centre is a 1995 novel by Eurasian Singaporean writer Rex Shelley, which tells the story of a Japane...
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View full detailsDescription About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The Gardens by the Bay comprises three distinctive waterfront gardens occupying 101 hectares of land by Marina Bay...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Cookbook author and food blogger Tsung-yun Wah follows up her best-selling book Home-style Taiwanese Cooking with ...
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