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 ...
In the Fu Shan Garden of Remembrance, Heaven Kam attended two of the shortest funerals he has ever been to. Within 15 minutes, the priests said their prayers, and family members, with tears in their ...
It was crowned the “Emperor of Pigs,” dubbed “Pigzilla,” declared “terrifying” and described as “humongous," “massive," ...
Concerts can get quite vicious, as one audience member found out at the cost of his arm’s well-being at Morrissey’s concert in Jakarta last night.
In the early noughties, Soranut “Beer” Masayavanich was a child star appearing on Thai television. Working in the industry, of course, introduced him to drugs. But after the tabloids picked up on a ...
The Coconuts Manila guide to Poblacion: Restaurants, bars, cafes, and clubs in Makati’s hippest hood
Most of us grew up knowing Makati’s Poblacion neighborhood as Manila’s red light district. Throughout the aughts, however, it began its transformation into hipster central, when it became known as the ...
Search and rescue teams combed the Chao Phraya River for a body. Tabloid headlines exploded when it was found, then worked overtime to supply breathless updates to a public ravenous for details about ...
You may know them from their pageant titles, successful modeling careers, or profitable social media presences, but these ladies all have two things in common — they’re trans, and they’re trending in ...
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, ...
“We don’t want our brothers and sisters in other parts of the country to face the impacts we have been facing,” says Thanawan Kainok, addressing a panel discussion on the ‘Past, Present and Future of ...
Regular visitors to torrent and content streaming sites such as The Pirate Bay and Solarmovie.sc will find that access to those portals (and other sites of similar piracy ilk) have been blocked. Last ...
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: ...
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