Indonesia has 54,720 km of coastline — the second largest in the world — yet the traditional fishing industry is faced with poverty and underdevelopment. 25-year-old Utari Octavianty, together with ...

Hanna Kirana, who rose to fame after replacing another teen actress in a popular sinetron (Indonesian soap opera), passed away yesterday evening. She was 18 years old. Hanna’s mother, Erlina Oktarini, ...

Photo: Ted Aljibe/AFP. " width="100%" /> An attendee rests on a stretcher after she fell ill with suspected food poisoning from meals served during a birthday ...

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 ...

The phrase “Bali tak pernah sepi dari suara upacara,” which loosely translates as “Bali is never silent from the sounds of ceremonies,” was once used to describe the island’s constant ceremonial life.

Fallout from the make-out sesh that broke the Hong Kong internet continues to, well, fall out, with one of the people caught up in the purported love rectangle breaking his silence. Actor Kenneth Ma ...

In November, Hongkongers were sent into panic-buying mode amid fears that Valley Chef chicken franks — a staple in Hongkongers’ breakfasts, hotpots, barbecues, and afternoon teas — could vanish. But, ...

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 ...

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Bambang Yulistyo Dwi Mulyanto aka Tedjo, 48, has dealt with the judicial system more times than he would’ve liked as a drug user. It started when he was a senior high school student in his hometown of ...

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