Story Archive
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.
2023-06-13
Thousands of residents near the volcano have been evacuated because of “increasing unrest.”
2023-06-09
This week, a Singapore-born comedian’s joke about MH370 angered Malaysia, one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes is about to blow, and guess where President Jokowi visited after bilateral talks with Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim?
2023-04-07
Around 80% of the country’s population is Catholic and the country was shut down for business most of this week.
2023-03-30
Crop waste burning, as well as natural and man-made wildfires have dirtied the air.
2023-03-06
One of the “Wild Boars” died in England where he dreamed of a football career.
