‘WTF is Up in Southeast Asia + Hong Kong’ is a podcast by Coconuts Media that delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in – or curious about – Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Chicken shortages are never fun, but after months of short supply, Malaysia now apparently has an oversupply of poultry in the country. This chicken crisis is making us go ‘What the bok?’ so Coconuts KL reporter Aminah Farid joins us to shed...
Nazeri Bin Lajim, who was convicted of trafficking heroin more than a decade ago, was hanged last Friday as Singapore continues to enforce its strict death penalty regime. This week, we caught up with Coconuts Singapore’s Carolyn Teo, who sat down...
Last week’s “Red War” in Bangkok saw Manchester United trounce Liverpool to the delight of Thailand’s football-obsessed population (except Liverpool fans, of course). In a display of an entirely different form of obsession, a woman was...
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you! For listeners old and new, The Coconuts Podcast is now WTF is Up in Southeast Asia + Hong Kong, where we bring you the Coconuttiest trending news and pop culture stories from across the region. It’s pretty...
Yep, this week’s podcast episode did indeed land on a Thursday instead of the usual Friday. That’s just one of the changes we have made to The Coconuts Podcast, the other notable transformation being reformatting the episodes to make them...
In case you’ve been living under a rock, you should know that Thailand all but legalized marijuana earlier this month. This week, we milked Coconuts Bangkok’s Milk of all her knowledge and experience with MJ since the decriminalization, who shed...
Sam’s nasty sexual musings about chocolate notwithstanding, this week’s podcast delivers some very important messages regarding food sustainability and the environment. Most, if not all, of the credit goes to our guest National Geographic Young...
On this week’s Fresh Tunes Friday, the spotlight is on Singaporean DJ and producer Myrne who joins us on The Coconuts Podcast to talk about his latest EP, Circles. He talks to us about producing music in lockdown, his experience playing in...
This week, we caught up with Coconuts Hong Kong reporter Peace Chiu to discuss her latest feature story centering on a sexually abused woman who failed to get the help she needed due to taboos surrounding sex among Christian Hongkongers. Peace sheds...
Boys’ love dramas, while hugely popular in Asia, have mostly found an audience in heterosexual females. Sean Foo, the founder of leading LGBT+ publication Dear Straight People, wanted to break from that mold. This week, he chats with us about...
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