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Baby Jane Allas, the Filipino domestic worker who was fired in February after being diagnosed with stage-three cervical cancer, has now undergone surgery that may rid her of the disease. The 38-year-o...
When Anna, from the Philippines, left her teaching career to earn a better wage as a nanny in the United States, she believed the opportunity would help change her life for the better. But after being...
The two Singaporean celebrities who this week were accused by the government of stoking ethnic tensions through a rap video attacking a racially tinged advertisement have offered an apology that some ...
Indonesia’s largest moderate Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) is poised to expand its influence in President Joko Widodo’s new government, following the country’s divisive election campaign do...
Singapore’s “brownface” saga continued on Wednesday after national news agency CNA joined the government in condemning two ethnic Indian celebrities who co-produced a vulgarity-laced rap in response t...
A furore in Singapore over an advertisement that featured an ethnic Chinese actor darkening his skin to appear Indian escalated on Tuesday as authorities intervened to condemn a vulgar rap video in wh...
The University of Queensland, which was the site of clashes between Hong Kong and pro-China demonstrators last week, is bracing for a protest set for Wednesday by students accusing it of bowing to Bei...
Behrouz Boochani is not an angry man. He tells me this on the phone from Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, where he has been detained by the Australian government for the past six years. “I should be ...
Since protests against Hong Kong’s extradition bill began in June, student Rustam Juraev’s parents have been calling him from Tajikistan three times a day to make sure he is safe. “Each time my parent...
An increasing number of Hong Kong residents are looking to buy homes in Singapore and enrol their children in schools there, according to property agents and educators, amid the deepening political cr...
A group of Hong Kong employment agencies has written to Manila to complain about a new digitised system being introduced by the Philippine consulate’s labour office in the city, and accuse the outgoin...
Morning traffic rattles through the slum district of Payatas in Quezon City, just north of Metro Manila. It is 9am but over 30 degrees Celsius and climbing. A truck pulls over and workers unload the m...
An Australian university that was the scene of clashes between pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing students this week is under fire from several academics over its appointment of a serving Chinese diplomat ...
Japanese couple Yuto Niinaga and Chiharu Obata travelled thousands of miles for their wedding – to Madurai, a small city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Madurai is neither an exotic locale...
Issei Izawa, a 20-year-old student from Yokohama, had his heart set on a summer full of trips to the beach with his friends. But Japan’s unseasonably dreary weather persuaded him to abandon those plan...
Nearly four years ago, the south Indian city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, was under water. The worst floods in living history – the result of cyclones from the Bay of Bengal – brought this m...
Kuala Lumpur’s downtown Petaling Street area, the landing point of many Cantonese and Hakka settlers from China during the tin rush of the 1800s, has long been popular among tourists for its namesake ...
Anderson Lim clasped his hands tightly in a praying position as a spirit medium paced back and forth in front of him. Lim then chanted indistinctly as the medium set a paper doll – known as a “substit...
Lam, a data expert working for a top Hong Kong-based company, was born and bred in Kowloon Bay. But the city she once knew has vanished among mainland Chinese tourists’ shopping bags, crowded pavement...
Last week in Hong Kong, a well-respected businessman told me that as the city’s recent cycle of violence escalated, he had started receiving emails from overseas friends asking about his well-being an...