Festivities commemorating Shravan, the holiest month of the Hindu calendar, are well underway in Nepal.
An intricately carved column stands in the Banteay Srei Temple in Angkor, Cambodia on March 4, 2013. (Susanna Cesaro/Flickr)
Simon and Martina Stawski, also known popularly as Eat Your Kimchi, document the weird and wonderful in South Korea.
A fisherman balances precariously while rowing with his legs in Nyaung Shwe, Myanmar on May 9, 2013. (Fabio/Flickr)
A Black-naped Blue Flycatcher sits amongst the treetops at Taipei Botanical Garden in Taiwan on January 30, 2013. (John&Fish/Flickr)
Watch a clip from Aslan's 2010 Asia Society appearance in which he boldly takes on Islamophobes and offers a witty response to the "unprecedented" wave of anti-Muslim prejudice he saw sweeping the U.S. in 2010.
Marivi Soliven, who emigrated from the Philippines as a young adult, tells Asia Blog, "I did not become a person of color until I arrived in America."