Mad cop shooting tragedy shakes Thailand to the core

BANGKOK – Children lay napping after eating lunch on a rainy day in their childcare center in northeast Thailand, but their dreams soon became the gruesome nightmare of Thailand’s deadliest mass killing of civilians by a lone gunman. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha reportedly plans to fly to the small town on Friday (October 7) to […]

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Sex toys a new pillar of freedom in Cambodia, resisting centuries of sexual repression

Vague laws and cultural norms have stopped sex toys from becoming popular in Cambodia. But future thinking entrepreneurs are now meeting a new wave of demand for novelty items amid shifting social norms

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North Korea trapped in an endless end-game

SEOUL – To nobody’s surprise, North Korea test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan at dawn Thursday, in what state media called a response to South Korea-US drills in the region. It is part of a high-speed cycle of action and reaction that has elevated tensions across the region in recent days […]

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Level Up KL 2022 uplifts M’sian gaming industry

One thousand five hundred participants, 80 speakers & 100 exhibitors
Aims to empower M’sia to become a world-class gaming ecosystem in SEA Level Up KL 2022 or the Southeast Asia Game Developers Conference which took place on Oct 4 and ends on Oct 7 plans to empower Malaysia’s digital video game industry…Continue Reading