Traversing The Orient Magazine

Hounded in Germany, philosopher-inexile Friedrich Haller escapes the leash in Thailand. The German philosopher Friedrich Haller’s latest philosophical work, “Science and State in the Western World as Late Forms of Theological Madness” (2008) is currently being translated into English ...

Tewfic El-Sawy, an international banker-turned-photographer, specializes in documenting cultures and traditions from around the world. En route to Bhutan from his home in New York, Liz Smailes met with him in Bangkok to hear about his work and photography tours. ...

Andrew Routh, Chief Veterinary Officer of the Zoological Society of London is part of an international effort to reverse the dramatic decline of the griffon vultures in the Indian sub-continent. Here he explains to TTO readers what led ...

India’s growing network of laughter clubs are aiming to take over the world. Grumpy old man Ben Hopkins reports My legs buckle, my jaw aches and as a weight slips from my shoulders I’m freed from the gloom that ...

In his role as Inspector Lestrade, Eddie Marsan is the first face we see in Guy Ritchie’s recent version of Sherlock Holmes. His penetrating look draws us in and keeps us on the edge of our seats to the final scene. Liz Smailes interviews character actor Eddie Marsan....

Traversing the Orient met with Steve Foot, Bangkok-based editor and publisher of Thailand’s only English-language literary magazine, the Lizard, and asked him what it was all about. TTO: So what kind of magazine is Lizard? Foot: You should know, you ...

The Urban Lines project is a collection of photographs that capture vignettes of life on the streets of Bangkok. Ben Hopkins meets the photographer Marc Schultz Bangkok doesn’t lend itself easily to the photographer. Garish billboards dominate the ...

The mainstream “green wave” that began in America and Europe has become readily understandable in Asia, incorporating yoga, non-new age spirituality, and adventure…all off which has marketability. Liz Smailes looks at a new breed of eco-minded shopper and interviews Adam Horler, an environmental pioneer based in Singapore and newly appointed ...

Writer and photographer Ben Davies has written and photographed books on Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Laos while his features and reports have appeared in a wide range of distinguished publications including the Guardian, Time magazine and National Geographic. His latest ...

Tom Vater treks into the jungles of Laos to witness the killing of endangered species Bye waves the gun, the signal for us to stop and we all freeze in the center of the path. I don’t notice any change ...