Story Archive
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?
