Inside Asia’s booming online learning industry
Investors have poured billions of dollars into digital education platforms like Byju’s and Yuanfudao. But are students learning anything?
South Asia
How Koo became India’s Hindu nationalist–approved Twitter alternative
Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success.
Technology and solidarity won’t save Myanmar’s protesters
Young Burmese are using tech to organize against a military coup, but the junta has powerful tools to silence them.
Four countries, one Clubhouse
The buzzy audio app is most frequently associated with Silicon Valley, but it’s taking off everywhere from Japan to Nigeria.
In Myanmar, one blackout ends, another begins
The Burmese military government turned off the internet in most of the country. But in Rakhine and Chin states, it ended an 18-month blackout.
The mysterious photo of a purple flower that receives 78 million hits each day
How India’s TikTok ban may have inadvertently caused a random image to become extremely popular.
How to bring a language to the future
For decades, it was nearly impossible to type in Urdu online. Meet the people fighting to digitally preserve its script.
Narendra Modi’s hashtag problem
India's government is at odds with the very platform that helped it rise to power.
Ride to nowhere
If ride-hailing giants Grab and Gojek come together, the new quasi-monopoly in Southeast Asia would have little incentive to improve working conditions.
How misinformation fueled a coup in Myanmar
After weeks of spreading lies about an election result, the Burmese military cut access to the internet, then took power.