Framing fashion: Bibo Aswan, the photographer shaping Malaysia's visual style
Bibo Aswan reflects on photography, creativity and the journey behind more than a decade of framing fashion, from building visual worlds to shaping some of Malaysia's most striking fashion imagery.
Are we failing neglected seniors in Malaysia?
Shelter is a right, not a privilege. This week, our columnist asks what Malaysians can do for our neglected seniors.
Open war, closed border
WHILE Pakistan played peacemaker in the US-Israeli war on Iran, it remains locked in a conflict of its own, battling its neighbour, Afghanistan, with no end in sight.
The world’s unlikeliest EV frontier
THERE are two ways to think about electric vehicles (EVs) in Nigeria.
Where the birdsare the business
SAMANTHA Giraldo, 21, was at her family's home in Colombia last Christmas when an email from a birding enthusiast in India, half a world away, arrived.
Ukraine ruins Crimean summer
UKRAINE is using its expanding fleet of attack drones to choke vital supply routes into Crimea, causing gasoline shortages and disrupting the summer holiday season as the Ukrainians try to cut the peninsula off entirely from Russia.
'Teach You A Lesson' review: Deftly sorts out the humane from the dehumanising
Over-the-top action-drama makes up for its excesses with cathartic moments of profound compassion.
One strait, one weakness
IN Qatar, a desert peninsula protruding into the Persian Gulf, natural gas turned a pearl-diving backwater into one of the world's wealthiest nations.
Fighting fire with wine
FLAMES engulfed a forest in Catalonia, Spain, ripping across a wooded expanse and heading straight for hundreds of hectares of pines and underbrush.
Health or hunger in the killer heat
SUNIL Rastogi, an auto-rickshaw driver in New Delhi, normally works 12-hour days to make ends meet and save for the heart surgery he needs. But in summer, as temperatures climb above 37°C, he faces a dilemma.
