Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam today announced stiff new measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19, including a two ...

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One internet meme circulated on social media by Burmese users quips: “If you ask someone what their race is, they should be able to reply Kachin, Mon, Kayar, Rakhine, Shan … [names of the major ethnic ...

Weed’s aplenty in Bangkok, but where can you get it? The moment cannabis was greenlighted aka decriminalized on June 9, a number of dispensaries immediately began selling marijuana ranging from Thai ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Police violence, powers that go unchecked, a fight for fundamental rights—Hong Kong protesters are seeing reflections of their own movement in a French indie film, Les Misérables. One of five ...

The viral porn video circulating among Balinese this week was taken along Mount Batur’s hiking trail, police have confirmed, as authorities work to identify the foreigners. Yesterday, a short and ...

We love us some Balinese nasi campur, betutu, lawar, and babi guling as much as the next street food-obsessed gourmand, and we can’t complain about Bali’s abundance of juicy burgers and Italian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Internet fame may have found Malinda Herman, but it is absolutely not why she started making covers of her favorite songs. To the 69-year-old, singing brought joy and confidence back into her life ...