Asia embraces blackface-style ads. Get ready to cringe
Asian TV is enduring a disconcerting fad — for a laugh or to sell soap.
Asian TV is enduring a disconcerting fad — for a laugh or to sell soap.
In this year’s first episode, more than 100 workers sewing for Puma and Adidas dropped to the floor in a single day.
The tabloids are misinformed. You’d probably agree with the captain.
Heads up: reason #5 is your fault.
The uprising kits kids out in anti-government kitsch, and targets the prime minister’s 10-year-old.
As the government deploys AK-47s against protestors, an official asks, ‘Do you want to wear clothes made by people who live in fear?’
Men seek to escape poverty in the jade mines. Instead, it’s the drug dealers and middlemen who get rich.
As the Thai government alleges treason, the opposition struggles to advance its invasion campaign.
But can this troubled nation avoid Bangladesh-style factory horrors?
Seen as an emerging threat in the US, “Kratom” could wean addicts off meth, Thailand’s justice minister argues.
Echoes of Imelda’s shoes in fury over lavish life of embezzlement suspect’s daughter.
Catholic clerics have turned to their last legal resort to stop the Philippines’ reproductive health law making contraception more widely available.
Bangkok’s allure — a swirl of intoxicating cuisine, cheap shopping, glittering temples and raucous nightlife — is potent enough to overpower its drawbacks.
Experience a tiny “Wal Mart” and a “KFC” that serves fries with chopsticks.
Inside the monk-driven movement to divide Muslims and Buddhists.
The world — not just Colorado and Washington — embraces a more laissez faire approach to narcotics.
Why help from one of Asia’s best-known dissidents isn’t always welcome.
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.
Plans proceed to return refugees to their still-unruly homeland.
Three years on, justice is hopelessly stalled in one of Asia’s worst political massacres.
By Patrick Winn
July 8, 2014