Twenty-five years have elapsed since Hong Kong was returned to China from British rule in 1997 — the halfway point of the 50 years in which the city was promised a “high degree of autonomy.” While it ...

Weed’s aplenty in Bangkok, but where can you get it? The moment cannabis was greenlighted aka decriminalized on June 9, a number of dispensaries immediately began selling marijuana ranging from Thai ...

I found the workshop down a narrow soi in Bangkok’s old town. Several large sacks of plastic bottle caps, carefully sorted by color, sat by the entrance. Machines filled the rest of the shed. Small ...

Singapore has sent 10 people to the gallows in the past seven months. At least. We can’t be sure if there have been more because the Singaporean government does not see the need to notify the public ...

The Seng Wong Beo Temple (also known as the Du Cheng Huang Gu Miao Temple) might seem a little out of place sitting in the middle of busy Tanjong Pagar, but this place of worship is one of the oldest ...

Pixelated screengrab from Bali’s viral car sex tape. Bali may be more sexually liberal than most of Indonesia, yet there was a great deal of outrage when a sex tape taken inside a car featuring a ...

Bali Police announced today that they have confiscated the sports car, which went viral recently, and its owner: a Russian man named Sergei Domogatsky. Bali Police spokesman Stefanus Satake Bayu ...

When the public health official who gave Thailand legal weed promoted a heavy-handed crackdown on electronic cigarettes this week, one couldn’t be blamed for asking: Just what was he smoking? After ...

Oh boy! Check out these ladies.7. Monthana “Jeen” Chuthatus Jeen, 20, made headlines in local media after showing up at the mandatory-for-men military draft in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province earlier ...

Singh says it gets especially hot in the subdivided flat when he is cooking. Photo: Peace Chiu Hong Kong had a very hot weather warning in force that day — a warning that is issued when temperatures ...

By Adrian De Leon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Some 36 years after the People Power Revolution restored democracy to the Philippines, a member of perhaps the most brutal and ...

Another weekend, another trip to Baguio City. Weekend warriors from Manila love making the drive to the northern city for cooler air, the plethora of pine trees weaving into its cityscapes, and the ...