Bubble tea, first introduced in Taiwan in the 1980s has done on to become a global phenomenon made popular by Internet foodies. In a recent Grab article titled ‘Bubble Tea Craze in GrabFood’, the ride ...

Thailand is often pitted as “one of the great development success stories” and this is for fair reason. Poverty in the country has declined substantially over the last 30 years from 67 percent in 1986 ...

Since the early 2000s, child prostitution has become an increasingly difficult issue for Indonesia. This issue particularly affects the party islands of Bali and Batam where tourists exploit the child ...

Indonesia has a major plastic waste problem on its hands. At the moment, the country is second only to China when it comes to dumping plastic waste into the world’s oceans. According to a Study by the ...

Southeast Asia has been touted as one of the world’s fastest growing regions. Bloomberg reported last year that Southeast Asia has a population of 620 million people and an economy worth US$2.6 ...

The ongoing discrimination against Uyghur Muslims in China continues unabated despite media attention from across the globe. Uyghurs, who mostly live in the Xinjiang administrative region, are known ...

Every year, approximately 12 million girls aged between 15 to 19 years, and at least 777,000 girls under 15 years, give birth in developing regions of the world. In 2016, a United Nations Population ...

Last month, the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) called for the Malaysian government to commit to a clear timeline to table the Sexual Harassment Bill after it was delayed. The bill covers ...

The veiled and quiescent annoyance in the relationship between the Philippines and Malaysia over the “Sabah Dispute” has suddenly been rekindled by recent exchanges on Twitter between the two top ...

This file photo shows Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh taking part in the 39th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit held online on a live video conference in Brunei, in Hanoi.

This file photo shows visitors taking a selfie inside the control room of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines. (AFP Photo) Nuclear energy might be coming to the Philippines soon after an ...

Corruption in the Philippines is not something novel as the coronavirus that is plaguing the country and the world at large. It is rather an endemic, deep-seated, and deep-rooted virus that has ...