Tweeting About Politics
Indonesian politicians want to raise their public profile but don’t want the criticism.
WAYNE PALMER
The Village is Logging On
Along with ploughing, irrigation, harvesting and threshing, farmers in India are adding logging on to their daily list of chores on the farm. 
DAWN TAN
Straw Houses – Answer to Earthquakes?
As a country vulnerable to the next "big one", Nepal is eyeing straw buildings as an age-old, earthquake-resistant method of construction.
IRIN
India Needs Australia’s Uranium
Despite the Fukushima disaster, India still believes nuclear energy is the way to go – and it wants Australia to be part of its plans.
RUPAKJYOTI BORAH
Twitter Draws Youth to South Korean Polls
South Korea's ruling suffered a crushing defeat in recent by-elections, heralding the power of Twitter in the political landscape.
LEE YOO EUN
Biting the Hand that Feeds
So you think you’re not consumerist because you’re vegan and you like indie music? You’re just subscribing to another kind of brand.
MARLA CABANBAN
What the Angry Birds can teach you about the Middle East
An Israeli satire show recently used the popular iPhone game to make fun of the peace process. In a way, it's the perfect crash course on the impossibility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Life Before Longwave
A native of the Malaysian coastal state of Terengganu reminisces about radios, and how the entire village would gather around them.
TENGKU MOHD ALI BUSTAMAN
Asian Tiger Economies Beware
Provocative economist Lord Meghnad Desai warns against taking Asia’s re-emergence for granted.
VIVIENNE KHOO
Cambodia: Decline of Monk Morality?
Violence, drunkenness, sex… It’s not just the Vatican, similar scandals are rocking the Buddhist world, too.
SOPHEAP CHAK
Can Twitter Help Prevent Suicides?
Is 140 characters enough to talk a person out of depression and death? Global Voices blogger, Scilla Alecci, finds out what young Japanese think of this “life-saving” media tool.
SCILLA ALECCI
He Helps Them Get the Message
Here’s the real-life story of an Indian college dropout who made it to this year’s Forbes “To Watch” list. And he's done it with the help of unemployed youths and their mobile phones.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
Thais Turn to the Internet for Relief
Weapons. What comes to mind? Guns, grenades and bayonets? What about the pen? Is the mobile phone mightier than the sword today?
THAILAND'S TROUBLES
The People who Make Your iPhone
The iPhone may have an American face—the face of the bearded, balding Steve Jobs—but its innards are pure Taiwanese.
LEE HAN SHIH