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Ushar Daniele
Correspondent, Asia
Ushar Daniele is the Post’s Kuala Lumpur–based correspondent covering Malaysia, Southeast Asia and the wider region. She focuses on current affairs, geopolitics, the economy, climate change and the environment. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, CNN and VICE News, and she has earned two awards for excellence in digital and television reporting.
Ushar Daniele is the Post’s Kuala Lumpur–based correspondent covering Malaysia, Southeast Asia and the wider region. She focuses on current affairs, geopolitics, the economy, climate change and the environment. Her work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, CNN and VICE News, and she has earned two awards for excellence in digital and television reporting.
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From Hot Wheels to headphones, new levies are squeezing the supply of Americans’ festive favourites.
As wealthy buyers seek penthouses with living-room supercar parking, struggling families battle banks to keep a roof overhead.
Perlis state’s senior Islamic scholar alleged Muslim political elites were linked to the ‘deviant’ cult movement.
The skirt-wearing women were barred from entering a police station to report a car accident, which lawyers say is a ‘violation’ of constitutional rights.
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Serious structural defects and inefficient bureaucracy tainted by corruption are common in the region, fire safety experts say.
A new law would mandate written contracts and dispute resolution, but labour groups argue it still leaves workers at the mercy of algorithms.
Analysts say ‘Assalamualaikum Beijing 2: Lost in Ningxia’ is a striking example of cinema being used to bridge cultural divides.
The navy will deploy an aircraft carrier and deliver meals to help those in the flood-hit south, amid public outcry over chaotic relief efforts.
More than half of Sabah’s registered voters are under the age of 40 – and they’re done waiting for undelivered promises.
Decades of neglect and withheld resource revenue have left short-changed Sabah seething and primed for a political fight.
As global tech titans invest billions in data centres to power the AI revolution, the state’s most precious resource is fast evaporating.
With a 30th year of Cop climate talks under way in Brazil, for many of Asia’s most vulnerable populations, the crisis is already here.
Police say Namewee’s release on police bail is effective until November 26 while investigations into Iris Hsieh’s death are ongoing.
The 42-year-old Malaysian will be released on police bail on Thursday while investigations into Iris Hsieh’s death are ongoing.
Namewee will stay in detention until Thursday to help with investigations into the Taiwanese influencer’s death, his lawyer says.
He urged Malaysian police to carry out a thorough investigation after rapper Namewee was arrested in connection with Hsieh’s death.
The high court found the government and police had failed in their duties over the disappearances of Pastor Raymond Koh and Amri Che Mat.
‘I will not run away,’ the rapper said in a video of him outside a police station before voluntarily turning himself in.
Iris Hsieh was found dead in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room where she had reportedly met rapper Namewee to discuss a film project.
Clean water and sanitation were recognised as basic human rights by the UN in 2010 but still, around two million citizens in Malaysia do not have enough access to fit-to-drink H2O.
Findings from Penang’s Centre for Marine Science and Coastal Studies will help justify the establishment of a seagrass sanctuary in Penang, where the state government has already created a multi-agency committee to support the planning and establishment of the sanctuary.
Artisanal fisherman once formed the foundation of societies and communities in Southeast Asia. Now, some have been forced to work odd jobs to earn money, after losing their livelihoods to severe storms and unpredictable weather.
While the landmark decision is at risk of being rolled back in the US, no such debates have roiled Asia, although a stigma persists in some places.
From next year, the city state will allow single women aged 21 to 35 to freeze their eggs. But fertility is a complex matter, as South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand’s experience shows.
Asia contributes 80 per cent of global ocean plastic. With the treaty, governments need to tackle pollution through the entire plastics supply chain, from production to disposal.
‘Children with learning difficulties are on the cliff – they have no friends, no services, no enrichment’.
Malaysia’s religious affairs minister recently rejected a bid to raise the minimum marriage age to 18 across the board, amid growing calls to put an end to child marriages.
Finger pointing in parliament as opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim raises spectre of the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance scandal of the 1980s.
For some families in Singapore and Indonesia, fish maw and fried food won’t be on the reunion dinner menu. In Thailand, pork prices have shot up by 80 per cent in six months.
