Story Archive
2023-09-29
What happened to the ball-buoy barrier China installed near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea? Thousands of Indonesian quake survivors have been living in temporary shelters for five years. European shipping companies are scrapping ships in Bangladesh when they’re not supposed to, a new report by the Humans Rights Watch finds. And a Thai court sentenced anti-royal activist to four years in prison.
2023-09-15
Residents of a small Indonesian island are fighting against a plan to turn their home into an economic hub. A win for press freedom in the Philippines as Nobel-winning journalist Maria Ressa is acquitted of her final tax evasion charge. Former Thai PM candidate Pita Limjaroenrat resigns as Move Forward Party’s leader.
2023-09-08
Indonesia just gave its first “Golden Visa” to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT. Two Filipina environmental activists have been abducted by unidentified men in the Philippines, one of the most dangerous countries for environmentalists. And find out why Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Bangladesh and what it means for the country.
2023-08-28
The monkeys are invading residential areas, shops in search of food in Phetchaburi.
2023-08-18
Some Miss Universe Indonesia contestants have accused the organizers of sexual harassment. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will be returning to Manila the remains of Filipinos it acquired without consent from 1904-1941 for physical anthropology research, including to support racist beliefs about white people’s superiority. One of the largest banks in Bangladesh has frozen the accounts of two Myanmar banks controlled by the Burmese military. And a fatal small plane crash in Malaysia that killed 10.
2023-08-11
Owning an ‘LGBTQ+’ Swatch watch could get you jailed for 3 years in Malaysia, how a chocolate mint drink in Thailand became a political statement, Jakarta battles toxic air, and what the Philippines is doing to defend its turf in the South China Sea.
2023-08-04
Typhoon Doksuri brought heavy rainfall and wreaked havoc in the Philippines. But it did not stop one couple from going ahead with their wedding in a flooded church. An Indonesian religious school leader has been arrested after being accused of un-Islamic practices like allowing men and women to pray together. And how Bangladesh’s Election Commission hopes Facebook can help with fair elections.
2023-07-24
The Jahut tribe’s transition into adulthood is marked by two-day celebration including a village-wide feast.
2023-07-21
Protests by two opposing political parties in Bangladesh turned ugly - leaving one dead and 200 injured, Pita Limjaroenrat’s hopes of becoming Thailand’s 30th prime minister are dead, and the Philippines' appeal to stop an ICC investigation on ex-President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" was rejected.
2023-07-14
Pita Limjaroenrat’s failed initial bid to become Thailand’s prime minister, an Iranian tanker seized by Indonesian coast guards for suspected illegal activities, Philippine demonstrators mark 7th anniversary of South China Sea ruling, and Dhaka’s Chinese-funded US$321 million sewage treatment plant that isn’t really treating Dhaka’s sewage at the moment.
2023-07-07
Vietnam has banned the screening of the movie Barbie, and now the Philippines might follow suit. Because of a scene in the film depicting a South China Sea map with the controversial “nine-dash line”. Bangladesh is seeing a spike in dengue cases and deaths. Cases of the mosquito-borne diseases have been climbing in Rohingya refugee camps too. And find out what’s standing in the way of Pita Limjaroenrat becoming Thailand’s 30th prime minister.
2023-06-28
On Eid-ul-Adha, followers of Islam worldwide honor Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son to God.
2023-06-23
This week: The debut of Malaysia’s first AI radio DJ. The family of a Filipina facing execution for drug trafficking in Indonesia is appealing to the national human rights commission to save her from death row. One student has been killed by an exploding fire extinguisher during a school fire drill in Thailand.
2023-06-16
This week: Putri Ariani, an Indonesian teen singer who is blind, went viral for her America’s Got Talent singing audition, and caught Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s attention. Thai election uncertainty is making the public and businesses nervous. An International Labour Organization finds a worrying number of foreign domestic workers working under exploitative conditions.
2023-06-16
Climate change, and commercial and illegal fishing, are to blame, experts say.
