Alex Williams
Singaporeans want more sex
After a long day of work, the burden of taxing responsibilities accumulates, creating a vacuum that needs to be filled, demanding an outlet, a...
Malaysian bloggers charged for posting controversial pork pictures
Charged on July 18 for “seditious publication” after posting a picture on Facebook of dining on pork during Ramadan, Alvin Tan, 25, and Vivian...
Samantha Lo: Singapore’s bold street artist
Dubbed the “Sticker Lady”, Samantha Lo is the 27-year-old founder of an online arts magazine, but has been further recognised as the Singaporean graffiti...
Singapore’s 50th birthday to see 50 amazing projects
Phillip Wu and Evelyn Lau, two business partners running a small production company, have already planned out their birthday gifts for Singapore’s 50th anniversary...
Police rescue 90 smuggled cats on Thai border
Thai police stopped a pickup truck on July 11 filled with 90 smuggled kitties that were headed straight to restaurants in Vietnam, where they...
Apple sued by Vietnamese erotica writer
Back in March of 2010, actress, singer and author Le Kieu Nhu released her first book that was later met with harsh criticism for...
Jailbreak in Indonesia causes pure pandemonium
Flames rose as the lit up Tanjun Gusta jail on the island of Sumatra was engulfed in an inferno with an estimated 200 inmates...
Thai monk on vacation caught glue huffing, stealing
“I was a monk for six years, first in Trang and then in Pattani. I came to Phuket on June 29 to visit a...
Vietnam veteran reunited with his long lost arm
In October of 1966, Dr. Sam Axelrad amputated the gangrene infected arm of a Vietcong soldier by the name of Nguyen Quang Hung. Hung...
Thailand’s internet users set to double
Far from being a land of ascetic Buddhist norms, today Thailand is one of the most connected countries in the region. As of July...
Citarum: Possibly the world’s most polluted river
Jammed with endless amounts of trash, hazardous waste, and human excrement, lays the world’s most polluted river in West Java, Indonesia, known as the...
Worldwide concerns over Thailand’s overlooked slavery issue
“I saw others beaten with different instruments, with things like a wooden rod or things like that… the senior crew attacked workers with knives....
Hello Kitty craze causes pandemonium in Singapore
An encompassing treasure of high regard, perceived as odd to some Westerners, yet capable of moving masses in the East. Hello Kitty is a...
Thailand’s Deputy Commerce Minister mocked for promotion video
In an attempt to promote traditional grocery stores, Thailand’s Deputy Commerce Minister Nattawut Saikuar wrote and released a music video titled “Show Huay Show...
Myanmar bans TIME Magazine over ‘Buddhist Terror’ cover story
Myanmar has banned the July 2013 issue of TIME Magazine which bears the words “The Face of Buddhist Terror”, its front page displaying the...
Punks face off with Indonesia’s Shariah law
“They will outlaw listening to that genre of music, that dress, and those actions... punishing by fine or by jailing. They will incentivise more...
Lost ancient city found in Cambodia
Archaeologists have recently discovered, with revolutionary airborne laser technology, a lost city that thrived 1,200 years ago on a mist-shrouded mountain in Siem Reap...
Stylised documentary re-enacts Indonesian genocide (video)
A documentary by British American film-maker Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, investigates the lives of remorseless former commanders of Indonesian death squads...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...