Asia embraces blackface-style ads. Get ready to cringe
Asian TV is enduring a disconcerting fad — for a laugh or to sell soap.
Patrick Winn
The Cambodians who stitch your clothing keep fainting in droves
By Patrick Winn
In this year’s first episode, more than 100 workers sewing for Puma and Adidas dropped to the floor in a single day.
Don’t malign the MH370 captain’s ‘fanatical’ politics
By Patrick Winn
The tabloids are misinformed. You’d probably agree with the captain.
Five reasons why slaves still catch your seafood
By Patrick Winn
Heads up: reason #5 is your fault.
Thais bring children to the insurrection, despite recent deaths
By Patrick Winn
The uprising kits kids out in anti-government kitsch, and targets the prime minister’s 10-year-old.
The Cambodians who stitch your clothes risk everything for a liveable wage
By Patrick Winn
As the government deploys AK-47s against protestors, an official asks, ‘Do you want to wear clothes made by people who live in fear?’
Myanmar: Hell hath no fury like Hpakant
By Patrick Winn
Men seek to escape poverty in the jade mines. Instead, it’s the drug dealers and middlemen who get rich.
Molotovs and monitor lizards on the front lines of Thai ‘coup’
By Patrick Winn
As the Thai government alleges treason, the opposition struggles to advance its invasion campaign.
‘Made in Myanmar’ clothing, coming to a mall near you
By Patrick Winn
But can this troubled nation avoid Bangladesh-style factory horrors?
Thailand’s cure for meth addiction? A leafy jungle stimulant
By Patrick Winn
Seen as an emerging threat in the US, “Kratom” could wean addicts off meth, Thailand’s justice minister argues.
Philippines: A rich young woman’s Instagram exploits stoke mass outrage
By Patrick Winn
Echoes of Imelda’s shoes in fury over lavish life of embezzlement suspect’s daughter.
Philippines: Priests wage losing battle against condom law
By Patrick Winn
Catholic clerics have turned to their last legal resort to stop the Philippines’ reproductive health law making contraception more widely available.
Bangkok: the world’s most-touristed city?
By Patrick Winn
Bangkok’s allure — a swirl of intoxicating cuisine, cheap shopping, glittering temples and raucous nightlife — is potent enough to overpower its drawbacks.
In isolated Myanmar, sanctions breed bogus US franchises
By Patrick Winn
Experience a tiny “Wal Mart” and a “KFC” that serves fries with chopsticks.
Myanmar’s ‘969’ crusade breeds anti-Muslim malice
By Patrick Winn
Inside the monk-driven movement to divide Muslims and Buddhists.
Who won the drug war? Drugs did
By Patrick Winn
The world — not just Colorado and Washington — embraces a more laissez faire approach to narcotics.
Myanmar: Kachin guerrillas turn down Suu Kyi’s offer to broker peace
By Patrick Winn
Why help from one of Asia’s best-known dissidents isn’t always welcome.
Myanmar: Never-ending jungle warfare on China’s border?
By Patrick Winn
Combatants fight for a region the size of South Korea rich with gold, jade and timber. But China and America have great stakes in this battle as well.
Will Myanmar’s war refugees be forced home against their will?
By Patrick Winn
Plans proceed to return refugees to their still-unruly homeland.
Philippines: Can power and cash absolve a bloodbath?
By Patrick Winn
Three years on, justice is hopelessly stalled in one of Asia’s worst political massacres.
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