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Asian Angle Linda Lim Pang Eng Fong

Singapore’s US$200k starter salaries: why education pays the price

3 Dec 2018 - 8:14am 23

Ceritalah Karim Raslan

How long to get over a typhoon? In Philippines, 6 years and counting

2 Dec 2018 - 7:00am 6

Ceritalah Karim Raslan

What Malaysia’s MRT has to learn from Indonesia’s BRT

23 Nov 2018 - 10:19pm 4

Macroscope Anthony Rowley

Can Japan’s Samurai bonds be a foil for China’s debt-trap diplomacy?

11 Nov 2018 - 5:04pm 16

More on Malaysia 1MDB scandal

Southeast Asia

Jho Low’s yacht on sale for US$130 million – half what he paid for it

14 Dec, 11:48am

China Business

The man after El Chapo and Jho Low has Huawei’s CFO in his sights

13 Dec, 10:11pm 44

Southeast Asia

Arul Kanda Kandasamy, former 1MDB boss, faces 20 years in jail

12 Dec, 9:26pm 1

Southeast Asia

Former 1MDB president Arul Kanda to be charged over corruption

11 Dec, 8:28pm 5

Southeast Asia

Fresh charges against fugitive financier Jho Low over 1MDB scandal

5 Dec, 7:35pm 2

More on Lee Kuan Yew

Letters

Hong Kong could do with a Lee Kuan Yew effect on housing

3 Dec, 6:10am 5

Politics

Singapore’s next PM: safe pair of hands, ‘there’s just one pity’

24 Nov, 5:28am 46

Politics

‘Lee Kuan Yew floated the idea of a nudist colony on Sentosa’

3 Nov, 9:45am 23

Politics

‘3 Lees is too much’: Singapore’s Goh Chok Tong on leading after LKY

3 Nov, 5:35pm 73

Politics

Singapore’s political succession: big reveal when PAP meets

3 Nov, 8:02am 3

Opinion

Singapore’s strong leadership leaves Hong Kong dragging behind

15 Sep, 9:14pm 112

Southeast Asia

Singapore court says PM’s nephew can fight contempt-case order

3 Sep, 10:05pm 1

More on Thailand's Junta

Politics

Thailand is going to the polls, but there’s a bumpy road ahead

13 Dec, 9:10pm 2

Southeast Asia

Thailand’s election set for February 24 next year after junta lifts ban

11 Dec, 8:28pm 1

Southeast Asia

Thai cybersecurity bill to allow mass seizure of personal computers

21 Nov, 7:59pm 1

Southeast Asia

Beauty queen, pro-golfer, veteran MP sign up for Thai election battle

19 Nov, 9:21pm

Southeast Asia

Young Thai rappers deliver blistering critiques of ruling junta

13 Nov, 9:26pm 1

Southeast Asia

Thai junta seeks to curtail support for Shinawatras before election

13 Nov, 9:26pm

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaking in Kuala Lumpur on December 12, 2018. Photo: AFP

Mahathir: no country has right to recognise Jerusalem as Israeli capital

Malaysia’s PM slammed Australia for following the US, after Washington moved its embassy from Tel Aviv in May.

16 Dec 2018 - 10:27pm 15 More on Mahathir Mohamad

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Ear cleaners, roadside plumbers and typewriters for hire cling to the pavements of Yangon's famed Pansodan Street, the beating heart of Myanmar's biggest city where antiquated jobs survive despite unstoppable change. Photo: AFP

Famous Yangon street where you can get a cockroach removed from your ear

16 Dec 2018 - 9:16pm

Cambodian authorities say they have seized more than three tonnes of rare African ivory hidden inside an abandoned shipping container. Photo: AFP

Record ivory haul: what 500 dead elephants looks like

16 Dec 2018 - 9:16pm 2

Filipinos wave placards in the shape of bells in Balangiga, a day before a ceremony to return three bronze church bells taken by US troops more than a century ago. Photo: EPA

Joy as US-seized bells return to Philippine church

15 Dec 2018 - 8:27pm 1

Unlike neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia has no dedicated anti-harassment or anti-stalking legislation. Photo: Shutterstock

Singapore has anti-stalking laws. Why doesn’t Malaysia?

15 Dec 2018 - 1:10pm 15

Thai prison guards lead Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi from a court house in Bangkok on December 11, 2018. Photo: AP

UN urged to help Australia-based soccer player’s release from Thai jail

15 Dec 2018 - 9:19pm 1

Philippines online gambling firm Oriental Game mainly targets Chinese gamblers. Photo: Tory Ho

China holds the cards as online betting booms in the Philippines

15 Dec 2018 - 10:14am 10

Sarah Rose Summers, Miss USA, competes in the swimsuit competition during the 2018 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok on Thursday. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Watch: Miss USA caught mocking Asian rivals' English at Miss Universe show

15 Dec 2018 - 10:36pm 98

Lawyer for Khmer Rouge’s Nuon Chea was practising illegally, says Cambodian bar association, casting mistrial risk over historic verdict

Khmer Rouge mistrial risk revealed: lawyer for Nuon Chea was unregistered

15 Dec 2018 - 9:19pm 1

Boats sail past Pulau Bukom oil refinery along the southern coast of Singapore, where thieves made off with US$150 million worth of gas oil. Photo: Reuters

‘Brazen’ theft at Shell’s Singapore refinery much bigger than reported

14 Dec 2018 - 7:54pm 1

A man carries cash in the border district between Vietnam's Ha Giang province and China. Many single Chinese men are turning to buying brides from poor Mekong countries like Vietnam. Photo: AFP

China’s lonely bachelors spend big with Mekong bride matchmakers

14 Dec 2018 - 3:43pm 2

The yacht named Equanimity, furnished with a Turkish bath and a helicopter landing pad, is part of a US$1.7 billion collection of assets that the US has sought to seize. Photo: AFP

Jho Low’s yacht on sale for US$130 million – half what he paid for it

14 Dec 2018 - 11:48am

Thailand is one of the world’s most important sugar producers and high sugar consumption is common among its 69 million population. Photo: Handout

Google launches AI service in Thailand to screen for eye disease

14 Dec 2018 - 7:54pm

Thousands of Indonesia migrants have been reported dead or missing since 2014. Photo: AFP

Never coming home: the Indonesian girls lost to trafficking

14 Dec 2018 - 7:54am 1

A woman holds a picture of a relative killed in the Lion Air crash during a rally in Jakarta. Photo: Reuters

Lion Air families demand search continues for wreckage, bodies

13 Dec 2018 - 9:03pm 2

Proton X70: an SUV, or a sign China-Malaysia ties are shifting up a gear?

Could new car launch signal China-Malaysia ties shifting up a gear?

13 Dec 2018 - 11:16pm 4

The list criticises companies with links to Myanmar’s military. Photo: EPA

Chinese companies top ‘dirty list’ of complicit firms in Myanmar

14 Dec 2018 - 12:16pm 4

The Thai government under Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has been promising elections since it took power in 2014, but this is the first time it has announced an official date. Photo: EPA

Thailand is going to the polls, but there’s a bumpy road ahead

13 Dec 2018 - 9:10pm 2

Daring rescues take place each month to free women and girls from forced marriages or sex slavery in China. Photo: Reuters

Rescuing the Vietnamese women trafficked into China

13 Dec 2018 - 9:05pm 5

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Photo: Reuters

Cambodia prepares to lift bans on political opposition after backlash

13 Dec 2018 - 9:05pm

A scene from a security camera shows the moment before Thai police officer Kantapong Huadsri (left) shoots dead French tourist Malik Djamel in a Bangkok shopping plaza on Wednesday. Photo: MCOT TV

Thai policeman arrested for killing French tourist in argument over woman

13 Dec 2018 - 3:14am 4

Aerial view of Wan Po Road Area 85, Tseung Kwan O. Photo: Winson Wong

Hong Kong sharpens edge as Asia’s data centre hub with site sale

13 Dec 2018 - 12:02am 5

A man watches the commercial featuring K-pop supergroup Blackpink on his laptop in Jakarta. Photo: AFP

K-pop girl band’s ‘indecent’ miniskirts prompt backlash in Indonesia

13 Dec 2018 - 9:22am 2

Maria Ressa, editor of Philippine online news site Rappler, is one of Time’s “Persons of the Year” for 2018. Photo: EPA

Fierce Duterte critic Maria Ressa among Time’s ‘Persons of the Year’

13 Dec 2018 - 9:15am 5

President Rodrigo Duterte salutes a military officer. Photo: EPA

Martial law extended in southern Philippines for another year

12 Dec 2018 - 9:26pm

Vu Thi Dinh holds up a picture of her missing daughter Dua. Photo: AFP

The Vietnamese children lost to China’s booming ‘buy-a-bride’ trade

13 Dec 2018 - 5:30pm 3

A still from the Malaysian Transport Ministry’s video showing a flight path to Singapore’s Seletar Airport over Malaysian airspace. Photo: Facebook

‘We have a kiasu neighbour’: Malaysia v Singapore continues

12 Dec 2018 - 9:26pm 57

Vietnam’s new law has provoked objections from tech companies, rights groups and Western governments, including the United States. Photo: AP

Google ‘studying steps’ to open headquarters in Vietnam

12 Dec 2018 - 3:49pm

Reuters journalists Wa Lone (centre front) and Kyaw Soe Oo (centre back) as they leave the court after their first trial in Yangon. Photo: EPA

For reporters jailed in Myanmar, Time cover marks grim milestone

12 Dec 2018 - 9:38pm