You’ve read the stories. You’ve seen the pictures. You know what can go wrong when a four-meter python crawls out of your ...
Yangon’s Secretariat Building might be the most important building in Myanmar. It was built over 100 years ago as the headquarters of British colonial rule. It was where General Aung San, Myanmar’s ...
A karaoke bar owner has found himself behind bars after the 20kg sacks that he brought back from India turned out not to contain the spice that he had declared, but instead ketamine. The incident ...
Most of us grew up knowing Makati’s Poblacion neighborhood as Manila’s red light district. Throughout the aughts, however, it began its transformation into hipster central, when it became known as the ...
Rumors about Thai prisons have not changed for decades. Low hygiene standards, overpopulation, and hidden self-governing systems are among the open secrets whispered about life in a Thai jail.
How have these bizarre videos of half-naked boys in Southeast Asia, voraciously devouring exotic animals while making monkey noises, gotten hundreds of millions of views on YouTube? Editor’s note: ...
You may know them from their pageant titles, successful modeling careers, or profitable social media presences, but these ladies all have two things in common — they’re trans, and they’re trending in ...
Note: This article was written by Nadia Sheng for Trivago. Lan Kwai Fong (LKF) is lauded as one of the city’s most successful business ventures as, since its inception in the 80s, the cluster of clubs ...
Search and rescue teams combed the Chao Phraya River for a body. Tabloid headlines exploded when it was found, then worked overtime to supply breathless updates to a public ravenous for details about ...
Living beneath the highway to the danger zone was not something Geraldine Fok expected to deal with when she moved into Sengkang’s Fernvale Link neighborhood. Nearly each day, F-15s and F-16s circle ...
Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ community has seen some solid social progress in recent years: The government recognized same-sex partnerships in spousal visa applications, the highest court ruled that same-sex ...
“We don’t want our brothers and sisters in other parts of the country to face the impacts we have been facing,” says Thanawan Kainok, addressing a panel discussion on the ‘Past, Present and Future of ...