It’s just another quiet Wednesday night. Two lovebirds stroll arm-in-arm along the Jubilee Bridge. Across the waters, the final few green laser beams of Marina Bay Sands’ light show streak across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft seems to have made enemies in Indonesia after the country came last in Southeast Asia in the Digital Civility Index (DCI). Well, it appears that the result has come full circle, as netizens ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From TV hosts to fashion models and beauty queens, all kinds of famous faces have made it into Malaysian royalty. While they may not be as famous as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, they still make ...

One of our favorite pastimes in Singapore is eating – ask any resident, and they’ll easily rattle off their top favorite local dishes (plus where to find them.) Thanks to our multi-cultural nation, we ...

Living beneath the highway to the danger zone was not something Geraldine Fok expected to deal with when she moved into Sengkang’s Fernvale Link neighborhood. Nearly each day, F-15s and F-16s circle ...

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.

Somewhere amid the splendor and squalor of gilded shopping malls and destitute slums, Bangkok’s invisible children are exploited for labor, sex and criminal enterprise. Coconuts Bangkok wanted to find ...