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A car on fire in a public square at night, with flames and smoke rising into the air. A person stands nearby observing the scene, with buildings and a decorated structure illuminated in the background.
Protests escalate in Iran with little information getting in or out
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Midwife describes atrocities as ICC convicts militia leader in Sudan
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FIFA suspends seven members of Malaysian national soccer team over alleged fake birth certificates
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Second phase of Gaza ceasefire deal remains uncertain
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Search resumes for vanished MH370 jet
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3 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay prison
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Black and white illustration of a boat on rocky waters
Refugees
A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.
Namewee is a Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter and filmmaker whose controversial songs go viral on Youtube.
Music
‘It’s controversial because it’s important,’ Malaysian Chinese pop artist says of his censored music
A collage of video screenshots that feature Africans exploited for profit in a growing trend known as "blessings videos."
Arts, Culture & Media
A new documentary uncovers the story behind China’s racist ‘blessings video’ trend
President Joe Biden participates in the US-ASEAN Special Summit to commemorate 45 years of US-ASEAN relations at the State Department in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022.
Foreign policy
US ‘walks fine line’ at Southeast Asia summit to strengthen ties
Malaysian Chinese comedian Nigel Ng poses as "Uncle Roger" to critique people's culinary endeavors. His YouTube channel has nearly half a billion views.
Food
Uncle Roger, YouTube’s culinary avenger for Asian food
A pickup truck is shown flying the white and black Taliban flag in the distance with two people holding rifles in the nearground.
Top of The World
Thousands desperate to be evacuated from Afghanistan
An older man is shown standing still in a crowded sideway area with people walking past him in blurred motion.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The delta variant surge and what’s next in the pandemic
A worker wearing a yellow safety hat inspects disposable blue gloves at a factory.
Human rights
US human trafficking report elicits anger from several countries
Video still from a Tik Tok video
Sexual violence
This teen’s TikTok video takes on Malaysia’s toxic culture of misogyny
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi holds a news conference on the day after a violent attack on the US Congress, Jan. 7, 2021.
Top of The World
Multinational corporations freeze political funding after Capitol attack; Malaysia declares state of emergency; India’s top court suspends farm laws after mass protests
Lebanese and Chilean rescuers search at he site of a collapsed building after getting signals there may be a survivor under the rubble, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 4, 2020.
Top of The World
Beirut tries to bounce back after tragedy; Malaysia withdraws charges against Goldman Sachs; The Lancet praises Russian vaccine
US Attorney General William Barr is shown wearing a dark suit and red tie with his hands outstretched.
Top of The World
Barr testifies on Mueller probe; Former Malaysia PM found guilty; Bush fires killed or displaced 3 billion animals
A man wearing a suit stands at a State Department podium between two flags
Global Politics
US toughens its stance against Chinese aggression in South China Sea
Mike Pompeo in a suit and face mask in front of a plane and the US and Israeli flags
Top of The World
Pompeo visits Israel; Europe wants a summer travel season; Lebanon counters second virus wave
A man wearing protective face mask jogs under a rainbow as Malaysia reopens a majority of businesses, after a movement control order was imposed to fight the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia May 4, 2020.
COVID-19
Malaysia eradicated Nipah virus. Now it’s a leader in the battle against coronavirus.
A picture of victims of the MH17 crash rests on empty chairs during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands March 8, 2020.
Justice
Start of MH17 murder trial offers some ‘relief,’ victim’s mother says
Flags of many countries carried by protesters fill the frame.
Global Politics
Power outage: How did global leadership change in 2019?
Pan-Borneo highway construction
Environment
A planned Pan-Borneo highway threatens ancient, pristine wilderness
Two firefighters are shown in silloette holding hoses and spraying water against a backdrop of orange blazing fire.
Photography
Indonesia’s ragtag firefighters on frontline of Borneo’s forest blazes
A judge shakes hands with a man at his citizenship ceremony
Refugees
What it’s like to become a US citizen after a lifetime of statelessness
Three young men sit closely together and look at a cell phone
Refugees
Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia
a big pile of plastic garbage
Pushing plastics
America’s grungy ‘recycled’ plastic is creating wastelands in Asia
A Russian soldier stands in the foreground of citizens celebrating, waving flags
Autocracies that look like democracies are a threat across the globe
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Development
This old Malaysian house renovation builds on the spirit of its original women owners
Trump Foundation to Shut Down After Agreement
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Man in orang jumpsuit dancing in front of two people in army fatigues
Future Folk
This is a remix? Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ has started a global wave of remix videos
US President Donald Trump and Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan
Conflict
Trump and North Korea’s Kim land in Singapore ahead of historic meeting Tuesday
members of a battalion lining up in front of a palace
Global Politics
There are 28 other monarchies in the world
Lost in the United States: From Teenage Migrants to Trafficking Victims
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Arts, Culture & Media
Zee Avi
Emila
Culture
How do you talk about gender when the words ‘simply don’t exist’ in your language?
Candles
Lifestyle
A new search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will end mid-June
The Abuzz project hopes to help curb mosquito-borne illnesses by using cell phones to track mosquito outbreaks around the world.
Health
Tracking some of the world’s biggest killers, via cellphone
Firefighters leave religious school Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah after a fire broke out in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Education
A school fire in Malaysia kills 23 children and teachers as neighbors looked on helplessly
CCTV image Kuala Lumpur Malaysia airport
Conflict
Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent, Malaysia says
Korea propaganda loudspeakers
Media
Huge loudspeakers will blast assassination news into North Korea
A man surnamed Lee who said his son was aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went missing in 2014 smokes during a protest outside the Chinese foreign ministry
Business
With the search for MH370 stopped, families still have many questions
A Malaysian artists's caricatures of the scandal plagued prime minister as a sinister clown have spurred a wider protest.
Arts
Malaysian street artist makes a clown of prime minister
Family members of passengers on MH370 gather near the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing on the second anniversary of the disappearance of the plane
Technology
Two years after flight MH370 went missing, the search continues
GRUPA makes comics about the state of press freedom in Malaysia.
Justice
‘Spotlight’ celebrates journalism that couldn’t have happened in these countries without press freedom
Ivory carvings and seized elephant tusks at a Malaysian customs office in Port Klang, Dec. 13, 2011.
Environment
Islamic clerics issue a fatwa against poachers in Indonesia and Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim and daughter Nurul Hana Anwar on the cover of "My Dear Papa."
Conflict
Penantian Panjang Kepulangan Seorang Bapa
obama visits malaysia 2015
Justice
#WhatObamaShouldKnow about women in Malaysia
A piece of the plane wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 near the Ukrainian village of Petropavlivka.
Justice
Dutch investigators will reveal what happened to MH17 — but not who shot it down
Children enjoying HAR facilities on Umuganda
Global Politics
As US marks 9/11 with national service, here’s how other countries do national service
Taufik (bottom right) is a fisherman who saved the Rohingya and Bangladeshi from sea in May. Even though they aren’t real family, he says, he loves them and he feels a responsibility to take care of them. He visits the Bayeun, East Aceh, Indonesia refugee
Conflict
Indonesians got help after the tsunami. Now they want to help Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees.
Barnacles
Science
Barnacles could help unlock the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
John Kerry state department human trafficking report 2015 malaysia upgrade
Justice
US human trafficking report is called ‘toilet paper’ after it upgrades Malaysia’s ranking
A Malaysian school boy walks past a street mural depicting a school bus and students.
Belief
A teacher told non-Muslim students in Malaysia to drink their own urine. The school was firebombed.
One of the ‘boat people.’ A Bangladeshi migrant allowed into Indonesia after weeks at sea.
Development
Under heavy pressure, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia grant temporary shelter to thousands of refugees trapped at sea
Salima, a Rohingya woman, talks to her husband, son and daughter, who are all being held by traffickers abroad, from an Internet hut in Thae Chaung village. She has to pay $600 and they discuss how to raise it.
Justice
The heartbreaking look of sadness and desperation on the faces of stateless Rohingyas
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar's last cartoon tweeted out before his arrest on February 10th in Kuala Lampur. The cartoon condemns Malaysia's judiciary for dismissing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's final appeal against a sodomy conviction and suggests Prim
Media
Malaysia calls a tweet ‘seditious’ and arrests the cartoonist who posted it
Screenshot of a hug at a K-pop band concert in Malaysia
Music
Quit playing games with my heart: Fans of K-Pop band threatened with prison time for hugs
Beachcomber and historian Tracy Williams discovered her first Tjipetir block in the summer of 2012. Now, she runs a Facebook group collecting photos and stories of other blocks that have washed up on beaches throughout northern Europe.
Environment
We finally know why these mysterious ‘Tjipetir blocks’ are washing up on European beaches