Reports 29 November 2021 With just 75 cents and a smartphone, you can now trade crypto in Indonesia Crypto is booming on the archipelago. Its proponents aren’t who you’d think. By Meaghan Tobin and Adi Renaldi
Reports 22 November 2021 Workers in Vietnam lived inside factories to keep Samsung’s products on shelves during the pandemic As Covid-19 threatened the tech supply chain, some companies, including Apple suppliers, went to extreme lengths to keep their products flowing. By Lam Le
Features 16 November 2021 Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and flying taxis are just over the horizon. The reality is very different. By Peter Guest
News 12 November 2021 Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them By Vittoria Elliott and Bopha Phorn
Lists 11 November 2021 From Amazon Prime Day to Big Billion Day: How e-commerce ‘holidays’ conquered consumerism There's a wealth of shopping festivals from around the world. By Meaghan Tobin
The Destabilization Experiment 11 November 2021 Filipinos are left to pick between repressive social media laws — or none at all The Philippines ranks first for social media use. Facebook's failure to curb abuses in the the Philippines shouldn't be met with laws targeting individual users. By Jenny Domino
Reports 9 November 2021 Inside Rappler, the publication that’s taking on an authoritarian government — and Facebook Maria Ressa won a Nobel Prize. The toughest times for her newsroom are still ahead. By Anthony Esguerra
Reports 8 November 2021 Lost in translation: The global streaming boom is creating a severe translator shortage Industry executives say international hit shows like Squid Game are draining a limited talent pool. By Andrew Deck
Reports 1 November 2021 GitHub is China’s ‘last land of free speech’ – but for how long? As Microsoft scales back the Chinese version of LinkedIn, developers worry the code repository could be next. By Meaghan Tobin
Ideas 1 November 2021 She drew millions of TikTok followers by selling a fantasy of rural China. Then politics intervened Fans from the U.S. to Bangladesh find escape in Li Ziqi's idyllic videos. But behind the camera, she's just another player in China’s platform economy. By Yi-Ling Liu
