The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, 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.
Indonesian celebrity preacher Abdul Somad can either be charismatic or controversial, depending on who you ask. But Singapore is apparently not a fan of his colorful preachings that they denied him and his party entry into the Little Red Dot,...
Things are looking grim for democracy in the Philippines. The specter of the Marcos dictatorship that had loomed over the past few decades has birthed, barring any last-minute surprises, the country’s next president. How did Ferdinand...
Did you know that we consume a credit card’s worth of plastic each week? Or that we can easily save thousands of bottles by just carrying a water tumbler? There’s a lot of chatter about plastic pollution, and people can’t even seem to agree on...
Tragic news out of Singapore this week, as the state executed a mentally impaired Malaysian man despite multiple appeals and public protests. Singapore has resumed executing prisoners on death row after a two-year pause due to the pandemic, and we...
This week on the Coconuts Podcast, we spoke to Perth-based journalist Kevin Ng, who wrote a gripping report on tailing the activities of a network of online sexual abusers targeting Chinese-Indonesian women. Just how many of these creeps are there?...
We’re back with Fresh Tunes Friday this week, and in the virtual guest chair was Serbian pop artist/fashion designer Didi J, who recently dropped her new single ‘Murcielago’ (yes, named after the supercar). She talks to us about what it was...
Hong Kong’s divisive leader Carrie Lam made headlines when she announced that she was no longer seeking a second term. We wanted to know what that was all about, so Coconuts Hong Kong’s Peace Chiu hopped on to give us the lowdown on Hong...
The Coconuts Podcast has had the honor to talk to one of Singapore’s most cherished activist icons, Constance Singam, as she shares stories of her work that has turned tides in Singapore, the country’s evolving civil rights movement, and why her...
We’ve all read news reports and seen the images of the horrors that have unfolded in Ukraine. But few know what it’s like to cope with the constant fear of imminent death that comes with living in a war zone like Filipina travel blogger Krysten...
The impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine goes beyond the needless devastation and suffering in Eastern Europe. This week, we had the honor of welcoming His Excellency Vasyl Hamianin, Ukraine’s ambassador to Indonesia, for his perspective on...
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