Between the ages of around 12 and 50, half the world’s population will spend roughly five days a month menstruating. Thankfully, the conversation about periods is slowly starting to shift and emerge into public consciousness, in large part due to vocal advocates of change who are standing up and speaking out about menstruation. We speak to three period pioneers working to reclaim our time of the month and change how we talk about menses in Asia.

November is men’s health awareness month, making it a good time to take a closer look at the idea of toxic masculinity, and how it negatively affects men’s health, both physically and mentally. Read on to find out how manning up is costing men their health.

The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, otherwise known as the Yulin Dog Festival, kicked off in southern China this week, amid a fevered pitch of demands from the international community for the city to halt the controversial event.

Situated down a small, nondescript alley in Sai Ying Pun, Junels has long been a fixture among Filipinos and expats, offering cheap drinks, Pinoy food and a beast of a sound system for belting out Tagalog power ballads. But this hidden gem of Hong Kong's nighttime scene is facing closure, after a hike in neighbourhood rents has forced the bar to relocate.

Catching up with Rich Brian (formerly Rich Chigga), Indonesia's first rapper and arguably the country's most famous export.

Known as "Bangtan Sonyeondan" in their home of South Korea, BTS is a seven-member boy band that has grown from a local pop sensation to a global phenomenon that has made "K-pop" a household word in households that have probably never even looked at South Korea on a map.

Two members of Hong Kong’s most LGBTI-friendly team, the Hong Kong Roller Derby, venture off the track and into the business world with a skate shop slash social space for the city’s outsiders.

If you’ve noticed an uptick in indie shows and festivals in Hong Kong recently, you’re not wrong. Meet the promoters who are making it all happen.

An overwhelming number of young women in China are reaching for formula over breast milk prematurely to feed their newborns, despite ­government-led campaigns to promote breast-feeding as the exclusive diet of infants until 6 months of age. As a result, China has one of the world’s lowest breast-feeding rates, as low as 2 percent for ­infants at 6 months.