You’ve read the stories. You’ve seen the pictures. You know what can go wrong when a four-meter python crawls out of your ...

Yangon’s Secretariat Building might be the most important building in Myanmar. It was built over 100 years ago as the headquarters of British colonial rule. It was where General Aung San, Myanmar’s ...

A karaoke bar owner has found himself behind bars after the 20kg sacks that he brought back from India turned out not to contain the spice that he had declared, but instead ketamine. The incident ...

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 ...

Search and rescue teams combed the Chao Phraya River for a body. Tabloid headlines exploded when it was found, then worked overtime to supply breathless updates to a public ravenous for details about ...

In the early noughties, Soranut “Beer” Masayavanich was a child star appearing on Thai television. Working in the industry, of course, introduced him to drugs. But after the tabloids picked up on a ...

Rumors about Thai prisons have not changed for decades. Low hygiene standards, overpopulation, and hidden self-governing systems are among the open secrets whispered about life in a Thai jail.

Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ community has seen some solid social progress in recent years: The government recognized same-sex partnerships in spousal visa applications, the highest court ruled that same-sex ...

Vaping in Myanmar will either vanish or move underground after the government approved a complete ban. The bill to ban e-cigarettes and shisha won cabinet approval and unanimous support in the lower ...

An Indonesian OnlyFans content creator, who goes by the handle @gresaids on the platform, is reportedly pregnant amid her ongoing legal proceedings, prompting her attorney to ask for leniency from the ...

Gold foil orchids dance across the black lacquer walls of a fourth-floor bar where a deep menu of cocktails are served in smoking-den chic. That’s what awaits at Opium Bar perched in a Chinatown ...

While the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19, war is brewing in the jungles of western Myanmar. The Arakan Army, or AA, was formed just a few years ago by students, workers and farmers but has ...