Tasik Chini, the lake that serves as one of only two Malaysian UNESCO biosphere reserves, is potentially losing its prestigious status, according to Professor Dr Mushrifah Idris, who works for its research center. The picturesque body of water is located on Malaysia’s east coast, in the Pekan district of Pahang state, and covers a space of...
The world is full of people who have achieved greatness: Albert Einstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and these two men in...
Two men who said they support President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration staged a protest yesterday outside the...
The world's largest bee -- a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb -- has been rediscovered in a remote part...
You remember that terrible, horrible, no good, very racist poem in a third-grade textbook? The one we wrote about back...
News anchor Karen Davila is getting more than a little hate from Filipino netizens after pushing Senator-boxing star Manny...
Shameful, truly shameful.
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Indonesian police officers are not immune to the country’s incredibly harsh drug laws. A pair of former Bali officers were sentenced yesterday to 4 years in prison and a fine of...
A group of youths armed with wooden beams surrounded and threatened a pair of Bali police officers whilst they were carrying out patrol duties in the Kerobokan area yesterday. The...
The “Indonesian-oriented” restaurant of regional celeb chef Will Meyrick, Hujan Locale up in Ubud, is known for hand-picking and sourcing local ingredients to make home-cooked...
As of March 1, two of Bali’s most beloved co-working venues, Dojo and Hubud, will merge under Dojo founder Michael Craig — and it’s a move that’ll likely...
The Badung Prosecutor has denied allegations from Auj-E Taqaddas — the Lahore-born British national who was sentenced to 6 months for slapping an Indonesian Immigration officer...
Bangkokians can rest easy tonight knowing that police have located the pipe-wielding woman who randomly smacked a stranger in the head with a long, blue PVC pipe as she walked to...
Footage of the moment a loose elephant runs wildly in a river before running into a tourist’s raft and overturning it and injuring one person, has gone viral and turned into a...
If you’ve been clicking around Coconuts lately, then you’ll have noticed the expansion of the Coco universe — our Coconuts Directory is up and running,...
An attack launched by numerous, stick-wielding teenagers took place inside a 7-Eleven in Northern Thailand in the wee hours of yesterday morning — a chaotic scene that was...
Tomorrow and Saturday, Bangkokians will have a chance to see Academy Award-winner “Amadeus” like they never have before — accompanied live by the Thailand Philharmonic...
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee has spoken.
So, you know how puffer fish is poisonous? Well, apparently several people didn’t, according to a government press release that reported that the Centre for Health Protection is...
At a carpark in Sai Kung’s Clear Water Bay, surrounded by dozens of old-school motorcycles, Jackson Chan got down on one knee and proposed to his biker girlfriend. Of...
The world is full of people who have achieved greatness: Albert Einstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and these two men in Hong Kong who managed to eat 176 cookies in less than 30...
Social media users today rallied around the cause of two Saudi sisters stranded in Hong Kong following a gripping CNN exclusive that revealed how Saudi officials had moved to...
The world's largest bee -- a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb -- has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia in its first sighting in nearly 40 years,...
The partnership between behemoth K-pop agency SM Entertainment and Indonesian media company Trans Media (along its parent company, CT Group), was signed last year but is finally...
Major roads surrounding Monas will be closed for tonight’s mass prayers.
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Being a religious minority in Indonesia can not only lead to struggles in life, but also after death, as illustrated in this latest story of yet another burial dispute based on...
A Puchong-area home owner is counting his lucky stars after be barely managed to keep a swarm of parang (machete) carrying thieves from invading his home yesterday afternoon....
Tasik Chini, the lake that serves as one of only two Malaysian UNESCO biosphere reserves, is potentially losing its prestigious status, according to Professor Dr Mushrifah...
Authorities seized nearly 12,000 pairs of sneakers, football boots and slippers from a Chowkit area mall yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Reportedly, the shoes were being sold to...
Are your jaded hearts ready to get warmed a couple of degrees? Good, because we’ve got quite the story. A group of Fire and Rescue officers in Malaysia’s norther state of...
Unsettling news from the town of Teluk Intan, Perak, two hours outside Kuala Lumpur: Three individuals – a cook and his two assistants – were arrested yesterday, after several...
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. is currently in hot water after he refused to apologize in a recent interview for President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016...
The entire personnel of a maritime police station was laid off today after its chief was arrested by the Philippine National Police Counter Intelligence Task Force (PNP-CITF) in...
Authorities arrested yesterday the primary suspect in the killing of a celebrity makeup artist in 2017 in Dasmariñas City, Cavite province. The suspect was identified as John...
Two men who said they support President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration staged a protest yesterday outside the Pasig City office of embattled news website Rappler. Mark...
Bread can come with all sorts of fillings but this, by far, must be the strangest one. A woman was arrested when shabu (meth) was found hidden inside a loaf of bread she was...
The Nobel Peace Prize nominee has spoken.
In an online attention economy increasingly dominated by Facebook and fake news, media companies across Asia and the world are pivoting to quality and subscription models. How...
A pretty badass proposal.
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The renovation works will take one to two years.
You remember that terrible, horrible, no good, very racist poem in a third-grade textbook? The one we wrote about back in December that unabashedly stated they “hate mixed...
If you’ve been clicking around Coconuts lately, then you’ll have noticed the expansion of the Coco universe — our Coconuts Directory is up and running,...
The United States, France, Britain and six other countries on the UN Security Council have called for a meeting on Myanmar that is expected to face opposition from China,...
There are plenty of songs written about Superman but few that capture the adoration that local singer-songwriter Thang Paa shows for the caped hero in this, um … touching...
Two men drowned in Northern Rakhine state on Monday when the excavator one of them was operating toppled into a river, Burmese-language outlet Eleven Media is reporting. The...
The “Indonesian-oriented” restaurant of regional celeb chef Will Meyrick, Hujan Locale up in Ubud, is known for hand-picking and sourcing local ingredients to make home-cooked...
Carb of choice: Pasta.
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The renovation works will take one to two years.
It’s time for #PinoyPride once again! A 20-year-old Filipino “hand shadow artist” received the Golden Buzzer in yesterday’s episode of Asia’s Got...
The partnership between behemoth K-pop agency SM Entertainment and Indonesian media company Trans Media (along its parent company, CT Group), was signed last year but is finally...
What are you doing this weekend?
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