Read the memo Singapore billionaire Forrest Li sent to employees of Shopee, the Amazon of Southeast Asia, as the company’s losses widen and it prepares for layoffs

Shopee was founded in 2015 in seven markets across Southeast Asia and has since expanded operations into 13 markets total. NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty images A 1,000-word internal staff memo outlines Shopee's 12-18-month plan to achieve self-sufficiency. The company's executive team will temporarily forgo cash compensation, per the memo. Once the darling of the […]

10 photos show the beauty and danger of the ‘mammoth’ winter storm that pummeled parts of the US Southeast with over 1 foot of snow

Kathy Kmonicek/AP A massive storm pelted southern states with freezing rain, snow, and ice, over the weekend and left over 300,000 people without power across the Carolinas and Virginia Monday. Officials declared states of emergency in Virginia and North Carolina, where Gov. Roy Cooper called it a “mammoth” storm. Residents were warned against going outside, […]

1,200+ Flights Cancelled for Sunday as Powerful Winter Storm Sweeps Through Southeast

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In a land of extraordinary food, why are women and girls in Southeast Asia going hungry?

Corinne Redfern October 19, 2018 Share this article While investigating the rise in malnutrition among young women in Southeast Asia, journalist Corinne Redfern has been fed some of the best food of her life. So what’s going on? The rough, steep track is scarred with cracks and crannies from the season’s heavy rain, and our […]

Deal Alert: Flights to Southeast Asia From $394 Round-Trip

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‘Monster’ hurricane Florence predicted to hit US southeast coast as devastating Category 4

The US southeast coast is on alert for a potentially deadly strike from Hurricane Florence as forecasters predict it will strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall later in the week. The National Hurricane Center classified tropical storm Florence as a Category 1 hurricane, Sunday, warning that it would rapidly intensify into a […]

Deal Alert: Flights to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia From $399 Round-Trip

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30,000-year-old jawbone records tough diet in Pleistocene Southeast Asia

Enlarge / Two human mandibles from Niah Caves in Borneo; the top jaw is 30,000 years old, and the bottom jaw 11,000 years old. (credit: Darren Curnoe) Life wasn’t easy for the first humans to settle in the islands of Southeast Asia. The rain forest was a completely new environment for people in the Late […]