Up-and-coming indie folk singer Syd Hartha Chua has become the talk of social media after accusing her father, Marcus Adoro, of physical assault in Facebook and Instagram posts that went live last night. Adoro, for those who don’t know, is the former lead guitarist of one of the most famous Filipino rock bands of all ...
Nope, it’s not just you. That was an earthquake you felt a little bit ago. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit Quezon...
Pope Francis is set to make good on a six-year-old promise to visit Thailand, the church announced Friday afternoon...
Malaysia’s “cosplay killer” escaped the death penalty today, after his sentence was ruled culpable homicide not...
Foreign nationals do not need to notify immigration if they leave their home for over 24 hours, the Immigration Bureau...
Foreign nationals do not need to notify immigration if they leave their home for over 24 hours, the Immigration Bureau announced...
Sometimes it only takes two to make an impact. Take this crafty Thai couple, for example, who recently launched a line of...
Are changes afoot to the strict reporting rules that have been bedeviling immigrants and expats for months? Answer: A definite...
The photographer who snapped the defining image of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown — a solitary man defiantly blocking the path of a column of tanks — has...
Police confirmed that a 39-year-old man, identified by his initials PS, was arrested this week for alleged physical abuse towards his wife.
ForBALI is urging Indonesia’s Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) to issue a strict prohibition on infrastructure development in southern Bali.
A 78-year-old American national, identified by his initials JBA, was found dead inside a car in Sanur earlier this morning.
A religious studies teacher in East Lombok was reported to the police for giving one of his students a time-out punishment. According to reports from local media, the student is...
Floods in northeastern Thailand have submerged homes, roads and bridges, leaving more than 23,000 people in evacuation shelters as anger grows over the government’s...
Sometimes it only takes two to make an impact. Take this crafty Thai couple, for example, who recently launched a line of swimwear made almost entirely of recycled materials. ...
Pope Francis is set to make good on a six-year-old promise to visit Thailand, the church announced Friday afternoon with great fanfare. In an announcement of the pontiff’s...
Some time after Thamanat Prompow was released from an Australian prison two decades ago for smuggling heroin, he earned a doctorate on his way to joining Thailand’s cabinet this...
Foreign nationals do not need to notify immigration if they leave their home for over 24 hours, the Immigration Bureau announced today. In a brief notice published online, the...
Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and water cannons at hardcore pro-democracy protesters hurling rocks and petrol bombs on Sunday, tipping the violence-plagued city back into...
Pro-democracy protesters rallied outside Britain’s consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday, demanding London do more to protect its former colonial subjects and ramp up pressure...
Fights erupted in Hong Kong on Saturday with political rivals trading blows in a mall and Beijing supporters using Chinese flags to assault opponents on a street, deepening the...
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong urged US President Donald Trump on Friday to include a “human rights clause” in any trade agreement with China, and sought...
Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists used torches, lanterns and laser pens to light up some of the city’s best-known hillsides on Friday night in an...
Working around the clock, thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain smog-belching blazes raging across rainforests and farmland in Indonesia, one of the frontlines...
With fierce blazes raging in jungles from the Amazon to Indonesia, concerns are mounting about the impact as rainforests play a vital role in protecting the planet against global...
You may know Ban Ban, a local chain specializing in cheese tea, from their Instagram-famous Boba Pan. People reportedly have had to queue for more than one hour just to get a...
It appears that Jakarta won’t be in short supply of bubble tea — popularly known as boba — anytime soon, as huge demand for the sugary drink continues to attract the...
Hundreds of people held a mass prayer for rain in a smoke-filled Indonesian city on Friday, desperately hoping that downpours will extinguish forest fires and wash away the toxic...
Two leading Malaysian opposition parties formed an alliance Saturday aiming to win major support from the country’s Muslim majority and threaten the young reformist...
Desperately avoiding plans previously made has become a bit of a self-inflicted cat and mouse game for us, but one 11-year-old Selangor girl has taken it to the next level after...
Malaysia’s “cosplay killer” escaped the death penalty today, after his sentence was ruled culpable homicide not amounting to murder by a three-judge Court of Appeal. He will...
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In today’s edition of men offering women unsolicited opinions on what they can and cannot do, allow us to direct your attention to the winner of Pencetus Ummah, a locally...
Philippine police have arrested more than 270 Chinese nationals in a raid on a gang wanted over a vast investment fraud that cost victims in China millions of dollars, authorities...
Philippine police have arrested more than 270 Chinese nationals in a raid on a gang wanted over a vast investment fraud that cost victims in China millions of dollars, authorities...
Nope, it’s not just you. That was an earthquake you felt a little bit ago. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hit Quezon province, Metro Manila, and surrounding areas today at about...
More than 350 convicts who walked free under the contentious Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law have surrendered to the authorities, the Philippine National Police (PNP)...
Up-and-coming indie folk singer Syd Hartha Chua has become the talk of social media after accusing her father, Marcus Adoro, of physical assault in Facebook and Instagram posts...
Pollution from forest fires in Indonesia pushed Singapore’s air quality to unhealthy levels for the first time in three years on Saturday, the government said, a week...
From "The Lion King" to "Frozen".
Adam Khoo wrote in his post: "Normally people will have to pay to touch me.”
When those late night cravings hit, you know where to go.
Here's one other thing a mop can do.
Two more Rohingya men were shot dead by officers Friday in a southern Bangladesh border town, police said, amid a clampdown on the refugees after the killing of a ruling party...
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Sidestepping cowpats and garbage, Myanmar’s only home-grown junior rugby side train on the outskirts of Yangon, preparing to take on children from the city’s...
NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to...
A Bangladesh university has suspended a student for being Rohingya, officials said Sunday, as impatience with the refugees grows following a second failed attempt to repatriate...
You may know Ban Ban, a local chain specializing in cheese tea, from their Instagram-famous Boba Pan. People reportedly have had to queue for more than one hour just to get a...
It appears that Jakarta won’t be in short supply of bubble tea — popularly known as boba — anytime soon, as huge demand for the sugary drink continues to attract the...
Up-and-coming indie folk singer Syd Hartha Chua has become the talk of social media after accusing her father, Marcus Adoro, of physical assault in Facebook and Instagram posts...
From "The Lion King" to "Frozen".
Award-winning theater company Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre announced today that the previously scheduled Manila staging of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream have been...
A quick digest of the coolest weekend happenings in Hong Kong. Friday, September 13 Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance Every year during the Mid-Autumn festival, people in Tai Hang take...
Indonesian celeb Franda seems to have come around to the realization that there is no such thing as exclusive dibs on a baby name.
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