Insider Asia

Seoul's $322 million gambit to save the city from crushing loneliness won't fix the source of its problems trib.al/6EG6stS

Meet Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire and business tycoon who was just charged in a massive bribery case in the US trib.al/4MZmdKU

Gen Zers in China are picking 'gross outfits' over corporate glam because they don't get paid enough to look fly trib.al/SXQ6NgB

Women in China aren't having kids. We asked 3 of them to tell us why. trib.al/T8JwShY

A fascination with the so-called 'white girl aesthetic' of Stanley cups and Lululemon fits is taking over Chinese social media trib.al/IoKEYQQ

A government employee bought a wildly expensive sex doll to promote kimonos to tourists. Now the scandal's blowing up. trib.al/xhJVIdi

6 photos and stats that put into perspective the sheer size of Evergrande, China's dying real-estate giant that has $300 billion in debt trib.al/CJvPS1K

Stop frying toothpicks and eating them, South Korea tells Mukbang influencers trib.al/zvUZy2f

A Japanese man who made a living from letting people rent him to do absolutely nothing says he now does it for fun trib.al/JDCq2vK

Meet the couple selling 2,200 pounds of spit-roasted pig every week from an artisanal cookhouse in the Philippines trib.al/TfeszPi

I stayed in one of the best-rated hostels for backpackers in the Philippines, and it turned out to be a complete letdown trib.al/wB5ZgKP

Passengers on an Air China flight had to brace for an emergency landing in a smoke-filled cabin after the plane's left engine caught fire trib.al/em7ywco

I followed one of the world's most poisonous types of fish from the seafood market to a roadside stall in the Philippines, where it's turned into a $1.80 delicacy that's surprisingly addictive trib.al/k4TZZML

I recently booked a night flight that ended up being delayed — here are 6 mistakes that made my experience worse than it had to be trib.al/yZLjds2

People in China have found a way to achieve the old money aesthetic on the cheap, with carefully curated stealth wealth-inspired looks for just $20 trib.al/nPoqdHn

Singapore's been named the world's 6th Blue Zone. Some locals are skeptical. trib.al/lrbCwhy

New York Gen Zs are going wild for a stew that's been brewing for a month. Wait until they find out about Bangkok's 50-year-old soup. trib.al/NdgrU99

8 packing essentials when traveling across Southeast Asia, according to our reporters trib.al/b1vgAKp

People online are flaming a woman for saying she uses LinkedIn as a dating app: 'It's a professional platform' trib.al/DNk77Tx