WTF is Up in Southeast Asia + Hong Kong

The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in - or curious about - Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

Download or stream it now from a variety of platforms including on Coconuts.co, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Whooshka. We've also partnered with Google to bring The Coconuts Podcast to all of its Google Assistant-powered devices, from smartphones to home automation systems.

Singapore draws a line at dangling crabs before they are eaten. Anachronisms thrive in Thailand. How Indonesia will wean youth from their devices with the power of lovable chicks. Teirra interviews half of English electronic music duo Honne. Hong Kong's turmoil faces its original sin.

A pro-Beijing firebrand is marched out of Hong Kong's legislature for a way-crude comment about the things a pro-democracy colleague puts in her mouth. "America's Finest News Source" strikes again in Malaysia. Teirra and Todd dissect a story to show how the sausage is made, and why good intentions are still the swiftest route to internet hell. Plus: an immodest proposal on dog meat and satire.

The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in - or curious about - Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

Hear the week that was Southeast Asia and Hong Kong in easy-listening form. From Apple to the NBA, multinationals face a reckoning as consumers revolt against their appeasing China. Venturing into Singapore's central biz district? Better wrap more foil around your head to ward off all the rogue, telepathic hypno-scammers on the loose. Yet more drama for the man who gave up his crown to wed Miss Moscow. Teirra and Todd decompress over all things Bangkok, share cat fancies and interview a Belgian correspondent detained before he could interview someone Thailand's government doesn't like.

The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in - or curious about - Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

Download or stream it now from a variety of platforms including on Coconuts.co, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Whooshka. We've also partnered with Google to bring The Coconuts Podcast to all of its Google Assistant-powered devices, from smartphones to home automation systems.

The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in - or curious about - Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

Download or stream it now from a variety of platforms including on Coconuts.co, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Whooshka. We've also partnered with Google to bring The Coconuts Podcast to all of its Google Assistant-powered devices, from smartphones to home automation systems.

The Coconuts Podcast delivers impactful, weird, and wonderful reporting by our journalists on the ground in eight cities: Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, and Bali. Listen to headline news and insightful interviews on matters large and small, designed for people located in - or curious about - Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

The week was dark and full of crime. Take a spin on the tabloid side as we explain the murder mystery gripping Bangkok and the unbelievable awful a serial fraudster inflicted on a desperate Hong Kong woman. Learn why Indonesian's may come to blows over taking too much 'rendang' and how fragging 10 people with a grenade may be a good resume-builder. Finally, get the lowdown on the first movie heading to screens about last year's dramatic Thai cave rescue with its Irish-Thai writer and director.

What a week. What weren't we outraged about somewhere, at some time? In Thailand, a new cabinet minister's past as a heroin trafficker was swept under the rug. Hong Kong still seething, despite government capitulation on a key demand. Teirra sits down with three Thais with disabilities fighting to make the country a place for everyone. Malaysian morality cops overrun resort to investigate reported threesome (suspect says a lizard chased him into women's bed) and accountability claims some in Philippines following unintended prison release of some of its worst.

Short skirts, fake news, human rights and Uniqlo-inspired havoc? If you haven't heard The Coconuts Podcast, Episode 12 is the perfect place to start. We've got some amazing stories to catch up on paired with some real talk on things definitely familiar to anyone who's lived or been in orbit of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.

Clarification: At some point Todd describes tech giants as private companies because they are unaccountable to the public. Of course most are public corporations traded on the markets. Also, Pussy Galore rather than Octopussy was the relevant Bond link to India.

We talk about Hong Kong's slide back into violence as police fire first live round since protests erupted three months ago. In Thailand, two migrant workers from Myanmar will be put to death for a savage double-murder on a resort island five years ago despite lingering doubts of their guilt. After 17 centuries, the great city of Jakarta's days are numbered, and a massive effort to relocated the capital has been announced.