You’ve read the stories. You’ve seen the pictures. You know what can go wrong when a four-meter python crawls out of your ...

Yangon’s Secretariat Building might be the most important building in Myanmar. It was built over 100 years ago as the headquarters of British colonial rule. It was where General Aung San, Myanmar’s ...

It was crowned the “Emperor of Pigs,” dubbed “Pigzilla,” declared “terrifying” and described as “humongous," “massive," ...

The viral porn video circulating among Balinese this week was taken along Mount Batur’s hiking trail, police have confirmed, as authorities work to identify the foreigners. Yesterday, a short and ...

A key protest group last night announced a new campaign focused on a single demand that will have “no leaders, rallies, or compromises.” Free People, which has called most of the recent mass rallies, ...

How have these bizarre videos of half-naked boys in Southeast Asia, voraciously devouring exotic animals while making monkey noises, gotten hundreds of millions of views on YouTube? Editor’s note: ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on Malaysian urban legends. Since it’s October and all, we decided to add a tinge of local flavour to your Halloween plans. Stay tuned for Part ...

Rumors about Thai prisons have not changed for decades. Low hygiene standards, overpopulation, and hidden self-governing systems are among the open secrets whispered about life in a Thai jail.

Above a restaurant in the Silom area at one of Bangkok’s new cannabis dispensaries, Kajkanit “Gem” Sakdisubha is one of the many still struggling with disbelief. “It’s still hard to believe that it’s ...

Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ community has seen some solid social progress in recent years: The government recognized same-sex partnerships in spousal visa applications, the highest court ruled that same-sex ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The following is a guest piece authored by LGBT+ advocacy group Heckin Unicorn on so-called conversion therapy in Singapore. It was not produced by Coconuts Singapore. Read Sam’s story, ...