Story Archive
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.
