It’s just another quiet Wednesday night. Two lovebirds stroll arm-in-arm along the Jubilee Bridge. Across the waters, the final few green laser beams of Marina Bay Sands’ light show streak across the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Somewhere amid the splendor and squalor of gilded shopping malls and destitute slums, Bangkok’s invisible children are exploited for labor, sex and criminal enterprise. Coconuts Bangkok wanted to find ...
Bangkok’s fast food scene has a new weird food, and today I have returned from the beefy, chocolatey mess to confirm that, yes, it is an ungodly combination. From the Things We Never Asked for ...
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.
From sketchy creams that promise a lightened vagina to deodorants that cure dark armpits to intravenous skin-lightening injections, the market for skin-whitening products is extensive in Thailand. For ...
Given how important food is to Singaporean culture (eating is Singaporeans’ national pastime, after all), it may come as a surprise to many visitors from the equatorial isle to learn that Singaporean ...
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 ...
Blame pandemic stress, a leadership failure, or the stoking of old grievances, but racism crawled out of the shadows and into plain view in Singapore too often this year, to the shame of its pride as ...
The skies above Thailand got friendlier today with confirmation that travelers of legal age can carry cannabis on domestic flights. While more than 10 calls to various departments at Airports of ...
For two homeowners in Geylang, money couldn’t trump happiness and sentimentality – not even a million dollars. After refusing to sell to developers for a decade, the owners of two terrace properties ...