Why do asian roads have striped curbs?

Generally, the color of the curb indicates where or not you can park a car there and for how much time. It may also indicate if it is reserved for a dedicated veihcile type.

http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/dropoff_pickup/curb_striping_and_other_pavement_markings.cfm

There are 48 countries in Asia.

Going off this India traffic police site same as a white curb. High visibility marking the edge of the road.

Define Asian. I live in "Asia" and have never seen this.

In my country there are two combinations:
White & black = it's ok to park
Yellow & black = no parking

In my country (Morocco)

• Red/white curbs: No parking, usually found in intersection where parking could block the view from other drivers.

• Straight continuous line by the curb: Not allowed to stop there (say for a quick errand)

• Straight or double continuous straight lines in the middle: Not allowed to do a "U" turn. Generally, Straight lines should not be crossed.

I've skimmed through some Singapore's road guidelines and driver's handbook and didn't find any particular significance of kerb paining, from the context I inferred that striped kerb is painted that way just to be visually distinct, to be noticeable. Significant markings are made on the road alongside the kerb, like those two yellow stripes mean "no parking at all times".

My guess is that it makes it easier for drivers to detect bends in the road, as the stripes are painted at equal widths, so you can visually tell in your peripheral vision when the road is starting to slope a corner.

You picked a picture of outside a prison...

It could just mean "no parking" and not be on every curb

It's so you know how big the building is

https://tepetelegrams.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/gt14_k1025_p66_7209.jpg

I've only been all over China and Vietnam and I've never seen these.

Since at least some legitimate answers are already in, I will just say that I've noticed this as well from playing GeoGuessr, and it is definitely limited to only a few countries, I believe mostly in SEA.

In Indonesia, they are painted black and white stripes like that to increase visibility. Heck, Jakarta used to paint them using colorful palette a while back, but recently went back to black and white. I personally prefer them to use colorful paints instead of just black and white, especially in urban areas where everything is grey already.

note: philippines dont have this, only either yellow or red, or yellow with black stripes or just stock default concrete skin (un-painted) or theme town/city color (avenue specific in zamboanga del sur & zamboanga sibugay , idk in zamboanga del norte)

edit: to solidify my claim a bit

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It's there solely to trigger migraines as you drive by.

Tl;dr can I park my van in front of this Singaporean prison and for how long until I attract attention?

Interesting! In Cairo (probably all of egypt) it's the same, just different colors

Zebra crossing

I saw something like that in Israel, it's like yellow lines in the UK, it tells you where you can park.

I feel like a quick web search could answer that, but I'm not going to do it either.

In US curbs where you can't park are painted bright yellow/orange, so I assume it's something like that.