But fate conspired to change his outlook on life and a career that was blossoming, having started out at 17 with home state team Penang and flourished with a 2023 move to Selangor. Burns to his face, neck, shoulders, hands and chest after the attack impeded Faisal’s speech and mobility, meaning he did not touch...
US President Donald Trump’s administration has illegally deported two Asian men to South Sudan, immigration lawyers have told a court. In a submission to a federal judge in Boston, the attorneys said a flight carrying a dozen people, including citizens of Myanmar and Vietnam, landed in South Sudan on Tuesday. A previous court order bars...
England striker Ivan Toney celebrated his first trophy with Al-Ahli as the Saudi Arabian club won the Asian Champions League for the first time. Al-Ahli beat Japan’s Kawasaki Frontale 2-0 on Saturday to become the third Saudi club to win the competition, after Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad. Striker Toney, 29, joined Al-Ahli from Brentford for about...
This piece is a continuation of a series of articles that seek to articulate Asian anarchism. To briefly reiterate, Asian anarchism aims to unite Asian and Asian diasporic thought under a lens of anti-hierarchical analysis as we look toward a liberatory future. As Asia is extremely diverse, there will be a plurality of viewpoints, and...
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Getty Images Trump’s tariffs are a blow for countries like Vietnam that rely heavily on exports US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs targeting most of the world are now in effect – and outside China, no other region has been hit as hard as South East Asia. Near the...
Asian stock markets are slumping as the shockwaves from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs continue to reverberate around the world. Major indexes from Shanghai to Tokyo and Sydney to Hong Kong plunged when they opened on Monday. “It’s a bloodbath,” one analyst told the BBC. As a region that manufactures so many of the goods...
Amber Sandhu & Rebecca Swash BBC Asian Network News BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf/James Pardon Varada Sethu plays Doctor Who’s new companion When new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu first told her family she wanted to be an actress, there wasn’t immediate support. “They had difficulty coming to terms with it initially,” she tells BBC Asian Network...