Indian cuisine’s world No 5 ranking rankles
Some blamed “ignorance” and “racism” for the disappointing showing – while other spicy takes pointed out that India – much like China – doesn’t have a single, unified cuisine, with myriad regional variations instead.
Filipino drivers lash out at e-jeepneys
Malaysia’s Hollywood dreams turn to dust
Insiders partly pinned the blame for the studio’s lacklustre performance on the unhelpful attitudes of conservatives in the country towards its creative industries.
Taylor Swift’s sole Southeast Asia stop
Inside the Chinese-run scam hubs of Myanmar
Vietnam’s ‘flexers’ lay bare increasing inequality
But not everyone has been part of the success story, as plenty of the country’s poorest still struggle to keep their heads above water – and even those not on a subsistence wage find the high cost of education prohibitive, as dark economic clouds gather on the horizon.
Massive money laundering case rocks Singapore
Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok turns 100
Kuok is among the handful of Southeast Asian entrepreneurs tempered by the horrors of war who built businesses that evolved with the region’s newly independent nations.
Anti-Israel boycotts sweep Indonesia, Malaysia
Mass fish die-off in Japan
The fish began washing ashore on December 7, with television footage showing 1.5km of shoreline ankle-deep in silver fish.
Local officials estimated that around 1,000 tonnes of fish came ashore, but suggested the actual figure might be higher.