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Drug laws in Southeast Asia are notoriously strict. In Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, for example, possessing or consuming marijuana carries…
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai—a leading pro-democracy figure and founder of the popular local newspaper _Apple Daily_—was arrested on…
The Philippine national baseball stadium was packed—but no cheering or booing came from the bleachers, nor were there athletes on…
Only a day before Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA), the Philippine National Police raided…
News over the past few days of promising early results from experimental COVID-19 vaccines has, perhaps understandably, triggered a wave…
Under a total internet blackout, the Myanmar military is conducting indiscriminate airstrikes, burning villages, and arbitrarily detaining and torturing people…
When Rey Valmores-Salinas left her home on Thursday to celebrate Pride in Manila, she was expecting a peaceful afternoon march…
Once their damaged boat is fixed, 269 Rohingya refugees now docked in Malaysia will be sent back out to sea…
On May 25 in Minneapolis, a police officer pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black…