Download On May 6, Belgium hosted the largest Balinese festival held outside of Indonesia.

The Ogoh-Ogoh festival features giant Balinese puppets and traditionally marks Nyepi, or Balinese New Year – a day marked by silence on the island of the gods.

The event was held in Pairi Daizi Park, a former monastery turned international cultural park.

Ging Ginanjar joined Balinese from all over Europe at the unique festivities.

Download In the land of die-hard football fans, cricket is gaining more and more young fans in Germany.

Germany has the third-highest number of international migrants worldwide – with tens of thousands from South Asia.

Across their new home, the South Asia diaspora is spreading their love of cricket.

Shadi Khan Saif joins the German Cricket League in Bonn, Germany.

Download Ask any young Asian living in Scandinavia about the Fried Rice Network and chances are they’re a member.

It’s been a social lifeline for Asians for seven years – and claims to be the largest Asian network in the region.

The big annual event is InspirAsian, showing off the latest fashion trends in Asia.

In Stockholm, Ric Wasserman went to the party.

Download This week the UN held its first ever conference on happiness and wellbeing its New York headquarters.

The conference brought together hundreds of government representatives, academics, and civic leaders to endorse the importance of happiness as a part of public policy.

To mark the conference, the UN released the World Happiness Report – reflecting a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness as criteria for government action.

Bhutan has led the way with this idea – the country has used the Gross National Happiness index as a measure of development for decades.

Ron Corben has this report.