'Everybody wants one' Apple's iPhone 16 hits Indonesia stores after months-long ban
> the US tech announced last month that its latest #smartphone models would hit the shelves, weeks after striking a deal with the Indonesian government to invest in the country.
https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/04/12/039everybody-wants-one039-apple039s-iphone-16-hits-indonesia-stores-after-months-long-ban #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #iPhone #Apple #expatasia #smartphones
In Singapore, you can go to any local drinks stall and say ‘auntie I want Michael Jackson’ and you will get iced soy milk with grass jelly. Because soy milk is white and grass jelly is black. Like the song.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1jx47iy/only_in_singapore_micheal_jackson/
modern filipiniana in two looks 
I wanted to make something fun but cohesive and could go from indoor to outdoor without much effort.
made from dyed abacá and woven cloth with katsa (recycled cheesecloth) lining
around 1 week including the prototype as it was my first time using abacá
made the bandana from the retaso; it reminded me of amorsolo paintings
schild studios
Girl group BINI is reshaping the sound and soul of the Filipino music industry. Their message is clear: success tastes even sweeter when it's shared, earned, and true to who you are.
And what this says is, "The future of OPM (Original Pilipino Music) is fierce and female."
--Alamak! Malaysian loanwords ‘mat rempit’, ‘tapau’ and ‘terror’ among new additions to Oxford English Dictionary--
The full list of words:
alamak, int.
fish head curry, n.
half-boiled egg, n.
kaya, n.2
kaya toast, n.
ketupat, n.
mat rempit, n.
nasi lemak, n.
otak-otak, n.
steamboat, n.
tapau, v.
terror, adj.
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Other Malaysian loanwords already included in the OED are:
atas, adj.
bak kwa, n.
bak kut teh, n.
belukar, n.
changkol, n.
char kway teow, n.
chicken rice, n.
kain songket, n.
kopitiam, n.
laksa, n.
lepak, v.
mamak, n. and adj.
shophouse, n.
sotong, n.
teh tarik, n
Fuck this homophobic and xenophobic ‘politician’ in Singapore
‘Make Singapore Home Again’? No thanks. I am proud that Singapore is home to so many people not like me, including those who quite literally build it. I want more things to make *them* feel more welcome.
There was an ASEAN leaders call yesterday about the Trump Tax and as far as I can tell only PM Wong and PM Ibrahim posted about it.
Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry released a badly formatted response to the tax two days ago but it wasn’t attributed to anybody and was only posted on the Ministry website where nobody but journalists and the most avid international relations enthusiast would see it.
‘Earthquake drunk’ Thais given advice on how to deal with post-quake dizziness https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3304928/earthquake-drunk-thais-given-advice-how-deal-post-quake-dizziness?utm_source=rss_feed
Ha! This is interesting. What it's basically saying is that Malay lost the word for earthquake (which is still extant in other Austronesian language cousins eg Indonesian languages for example, like Javanese) that we had to re-import it from Sanskrit because we have so few of it 
10% of Steel Samples from Collapsed Building Found Substandard
US$2M apartment in a ‘burby part of Singapore
Ahahahahahahaha
Disgusting
https://www.99.co/singapore/insider/triple-record-breaking-s3-06m-ec/
Photos of Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and elsewhere in SE Asia between in the early and mid 1900s by a Taiwanese collector
Burmese-Singaporean thinker Yan Naung Oak has a lovely piece on 'Seapunks':
Not scifi, which romanticizes technology; not cyberpunk, nor solarpunk.
But a uniquely SE Asian concept. Mandalas, Myanmar, environmentalism, capitalism and other topics:
'Captures our culture of living with and finding ways to thrive in a world that will continue to be neither completely utopian nor dystopian.'
I always enjoy Yan's work
https://livingwithshoggoths.substack.com/p/we-have-always-been-seapunks
#Mangosteens from #Chinatown 
I love them. Rarely buy because they aren't cheap here.
#Myanmar and #Thailand earthquake live updates: Hundreds feared dead, with 81 trapped in collapsed #Bangkok building - BBC News
I helped a friend apply for a tourist visa to Singapore and it was approved in 1.5 hours
I wrote how to do it (any Singapore citizen, permanent resident or Singapore company can do it)
Most people don't need visas, but people from India / China do
https://popagandhi.com/posts/applying-for-singapore-visa-for-your-friend/
was severely shaken by a violent 7.7M earthquake whose epicenter was over 1000 km away in the middle of 
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