Ko Min Htay has done it all: fought as a rebel soldier, acted alongside Sylvester Stallone in RAMBO, and campaigned for peace in Myanmar as an activist.

A police raid found that girls as young as 14 had been working as prostitutes out of the Kalibata City apartments in Pancoran, South Jakarta, for the past six months.

Fonseka Wannerichega Hema Ranjini, a 44-year-old Nanyang Technological University (NTU) dropout, has been convicted of forging a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the prestigious university. Her ...

22-year-old Angie Chong Sum Yee was on a solo trip in Chiang Mai, Thailand, when she was reported missing by her mother, Chee Choy Won on June 2, after her daughter had been irresponsive to her texts ...

While the explosion of cannabis dispensaries across Bangkok and generally all of Thailand has been obvious (to say the least), a new Thai brand is focusing on an oft-overlooked product category: CBD ...

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 ...

The son of a high-ranking retired army official used his father’s gun to murder his former girlfriend before killing himself, police said today. A day after Supitcha “Gigi” Preedacharoen, 20, was ...

Bangkok’s fast food scene has a new weird food, and today I have returned from the beefy, chocolatey mess to confirm that, yes, it is an ungodly combination. From the Things We Never Asked for ...

In one moment, she declares her love for durian. In another, she eats hot pot alongside two smitten Thai nerds in the northeast. All along the way, since last month, adult star Rae Lil Black has ...

A whole lifetime isn’t sufficient to get a full grasp of the vast archipelago that is Indonesia — home to over 270 million people. It’s a country of incalculable diversity, with deep historic roots ...

This is the first in a series of stories by Coconuts Bangkok about modern day slavery flourishing across borders in Southeast Asia. Read the second and third. When Nop tried to get help from the ...

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 ...