Yaya Dub is the Filipino Twitter queen. Yesterday, Twitter Philippines tweeted (naturally) a list of the Top 10 most-tweeted celebrities in 2017 and our very own Maine "Yaya Dub" Mendoza is at number...

Maine Mendoza proves once again that she can sell. Mendoza's MAC Cosmetics lipstick called @mainedcm (that's her Instagram and Twitter handle, fyi) flew off the shelves and sold out within one minute...

The IMF said Wednesday that US$372 million given to Myanmar for assistance with the COVID-19 crisis has gone missing in the hands of its military regime. Spokesman Gerry Rice said the IMF, which has...

The trio -- and their nine children -- have given numerous interviews sharing their secrets for having a happy marriage in Thailand.

In headbands and tie-dye, they came out of the smoky shadows to celebrate Tuesday. Weed enthusiasts gathered in a celebratory mood to roll spliffs and get a head start on the legalization of recrea...

It is with a mixture of pride, nostalgia, and sadness that we announce that Coconuts will cease publishing on December 31, 2023. From our humble founding in Bangkok in 2011, we grew the Coconuts...

Myanmar model and actress Nang Mwe San is unable to travel to Bangkok because Yangon’s Passport Office has refused to return her passport after she tried to renew it recently, according to a source...

The president’s son made them an incredibly sweet offer, but their promoter got bitter about him using their poster.

Muar MP Syed Saddiq has formed a parliamentary caucus to study the use of medical marijuana and ketum in a bid to legalize their use.

Southeast Asian Games host the Philippines apologized on Sunday after some arriving athletes were left stranded for hours at the airport or were driven to the wrong hotel, a logistical snafu that...

Where to get the good sh*t, the real sambal, and the best gorengs.

The Philippines' independent film industry has been quite prolific in recent years and it was just announced that one of the most successful movies to come out of that renaissance is getting a...

“You've gotta be kidding me,” was my first thought upon seeing a video of President Rodrigo Duterte kissing an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) at an event in Seoul over the weekend. I played the video...

Popular Canto-pop boy band Mirror’s heartthrob Keung To is turning 23 on April 30 and his fans are hoping to celebrate it with everyone in Hong Kong through charity pop-up shops and Instagrammable...

Anything apparently goes for the sake of content these days.

Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Singapore today and hung out with two of Singapore’s most popular photographers at the Tiong Bahru hawker center. 

The Shibuya Crossing is said to be the world's busiest intersection

While tense debate continues this afternoon inside the parliament over Thailand’s next prime minister, people have been letting off steam online through a storm of memes and hashtags. As the joint...

Not one COVID-19-infected Filipino healthcare practitioner working in the frontlines has received sickness and death benefits owed to them by the government under the Bayanihan [Camaraderie] Act of...

Amidst the internal drama that has been unfolding since the Election Commission confirmed what we already knew -- that the opposition had won, won big, and Najib was on the way out -- a woman’s...

After alarming photos of a lion lashed to cargo by netting raised more questions about what two big cats were doing transiting through Changi Airport, the airline responsible said today there was...

The kind of hero we need right now.

At least three people were seriously injured after hundreds of pro-military thugs attacked protesters in downtown Yangon this morning. Hundreds of military supporters rushed a peaceful protest at...

The Return of Egg-Boy.

Thailand's Navy SEALs have released footage of the gripping moment when two divers from the UK made first contact with the youth soccer team.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said some unbelievable things in the past, but this has got to be one of the craziest. During a campaign rally held on Thursday at the Puerto Princesa City...

Canto-pop sensation Mirror will hold their first-ever Hong Kong Coliseum concert this July and August. 

Countercultural music icons Rap Against Dictatorship upped their ante today with a new single demanding reform of the monarchy.

Thai Princess Ubolratana this morning announced her candidacy for prime minister as a member of the Thaksin Shinawatra-connected Thai Raksa Chart Party, a move with explosive implications for next...

Thailand’s government isn’t backing down in the face of legal threats from one of the world’s largest technology companies. One day after Facebook said it would sue the Thai government over censors...

Singaporean blogger Xiaxue is drawing flak across social media today, following an Instagram post in which she called Greta Thunberg's speech at the United Nations climate summit "so damn cringe,"...

Pitung Parker was created by by Marvel Comics artist Rhoald Marcellius while Kalangga comes from the always impressive Is Yuniarto. Maybe we'll see one of them show up in the Spider-Verse sequel!

Gather round citizens, for global superstar George Clooney, 90s heart-throb, 2000s serious movie star, and 2010s husband of human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, has done that thing that we seriously...

Why are there so many online critics these days? Don't they have anything else to do? Singer and actress Regine Velasquez posted several statements last night to address her online bullies, many of...

The chief of the Singaporean contingent to the Southeast Asian Games has written to Filipino organizers to demand "urgent and immediate attention" over the lack of halal food options at the event,...

The search is over, and the result is the one Thailand was praying for. At 10:30pm, Thai Navy SEALs and divers finally made contact with the missing youth soccer team that has been trapped in Chiang...

All of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s cabinet ministers have tendered their resignation to the king, Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin announced online today. 

A hundred-plus donors pooled thousands of dollars in just two days to reward Singapore’s first-ever badminton world champion who left the podium without a cash prize.

Afghanistan is gradually being taken over by the Taliban. Herat, its cultural capital, is under siege. It’s one of the last places on Earth any foreign traveler should be right now.  Yet, last week,...

A video of a mother crying inside a fast-food restaurant in Muntinlupa City has gone viral since first appearing on Twitter this past weekend. The reason? She learned her son was finally graduating...

Concerns have been swirling online among supporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement over the whereabouts of the demonstrators’ unofficial mascot: 63-year-old “Grandma Wong,” whose Union Jack...

The tweet that earned Ahmad Dhani 1.5 years in jail: “Anyone who supports the religious blasphemer is a bastard who needs to be spit on in their faces”.

Balinese musician and controversial figure I Gede Ari Astina, who is more popularly known as either Jerinx or JRX, was sentenced to 14 months in prison today after a trial that was seen as another...