Asia
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The femme fatale was created in Cambodia’s legendary Hotel Le Royal, which has an aura and history as intriguing as the former first lady
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This shot – taken from a helicopter by a news crew – reveals the scope of Kawazu’s early-blooming cherry blossom trees
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As cycling grows in popularity among Indians, Darjeeling has opened the country’s first hill station bike path, with views of the world’s highest mountains
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Skipping the temples and the backpacker hub of the Khao San Road, our writer focuses on the food, drink and arts scenes in the city’s vibrant neighbourhoods
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A milk shortage in the 1940s led an enterprising barman to cast around for alternatives – and so cà phê trúng, Vietnamese egg coffee, was born
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Misool, off West Papua, is surrounded by exotic coral lagoons. It also hosts pools where visitors can swim with thousands of beautiful and harmless jellyfish
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Stay in an art hotel, see live music, shop for vintage clothes … the leftfield community of Kōenji in the Tokyo suburbs is home to an expanding creative scene
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Forget unagi, the overfished freshwater eel, and try the altogether subtler saltwater anago at the only Tokyo restaurant that still serves it – in lots of different ways
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The Guardian picture essay Trans-Siberian Railway: a view from Moscow to Vladivostok – a photo essay
On a 9,288km journey inspired by the centennial anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916, photographer Annie Ling captures life onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window -
A resort in the Gulf of Thailand may be the inspiration for Alex Garland’s The Beach. Brigid Delaney takes a plane and two boats to check it out
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A new documentary about a young girl hunting with eagles in Mongolia’s Altai mountains casts fresh light on this extraordinary, sparsely populated country and its threatened rural lifestyle
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A magical glimpse of Mount Fuji amid a snowy landscape, in a shot taken by artist Mary-Anne Bartlett shortly before the mountain was shrouded in mist once more
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