VICE INDIAMyanmar In Myanmar, a Nonprofit Icon Enjoyed Foreign Funding Despite Allegations of Sexual AbuseVICE - Jacob GoldbergIn November 2013, government officials and women’s rights activists gathered for the National Women’s Dialogue. In a glittering hotel ballroom in Yangon, they discussed the role of women in peace building
VICE INDIAIndonesia The ‘World’s Largest Dump’ Is in Indonesia and It’s a Ticking Time BombVICE - Annisa Nurul AzizaThe “mountain” is apparent from afar, greeting onlookers with a swarm of flies and a pungent smell. Trucks line up from morning until afternoon, bringing to the dumpsite all the trash consumed by residents
VICE INDIAGujarat A Gujarat School Exam Asked Students How Mahatma Gandhi Died by SuicideVICE - Shamani JoshiMahatma Gandhi, commonly called India’s ‘Father of the Nation’, is known globally for being the non-violent leader from Gujarat who fuelled the nationalist movement in India to kick out the British colonisers.
VICE INDIATardigrades Please Enjoy These Oil Paintings of Tiny Little 'Water Bears'VICE - Angela PayneThey're called tardigrades, but they're more adorably known as moss piglets or water bears. These are a division of eight-legged water-dwelling micro-animals found in most earthly environments, from the
VICE INDIAHong Kong Tech Companies Didn’t Plan for Chinese CensorshipVICE - Caroline HaskinsOver the past month, Google removed a Hong Kong protest role-playing game from the Google Play store, Blizzard made a gamer forfeit his prize money after voicing support for protesters in Hong Kong, and
VICE INDIAAnthropology Ancient Humans Basically Used Bones as Tupperware, Researchers SayVICE - Jelisa CastrodaleAlmost 20 years ago, a construction crew was building a road about seven miles east of Tel Aviv, Israel, but the project came to an abrupt stop when the workers realized that they'd discovered a large
VICE INDIASocial Media Companies The Best TikToks of the Week According to MeVICE - Caroline HaskinsTikTok, a video app where users can post 15 or 60-second videos, has a bad reputation. A lot of people only understand this app as a place that the teens go, or alternatively, a host of “cursed” or “toxic”
VICE INDIAQueensland Drunk Teacher Passes Out in Front of Her Second GradersVICE - Edoardo LiottaRemember in class when you would tell your mates how much you wished your teacher would take a chill pill? In Australia, one did take a pill, and she passed out in front of her second-grade students. passed
VICE INDIAWhales Whale Watchers Catch Rare Sighting of Orcas Devouring a Baby HumpbackVICE - Gavin ButlerDean Fuchs runs whale-watching tours off Australia’s east coast, and he’s waited his whole life to see a baby humpback get mauled to death by a gang of orcas. On Saturday morning, while running a charter
VICE INDIAGuns ‘17 Blocks’ Captures the Everyday Reality of Gun Violence in AmericaVICE - VICE StaffIn 1999, nine-year-old Emmanuel Sanford-Durant began filming his family’s lives in America’s most dangerous neighbourhood—just 17 blocks behind the US Capitol building. Twenty years of home footage forms
VICE INDIAGuns A Middle Schooler Who Mimed a "Finger Gun" Got Hauled Off in Handcuffs and Charged with FelonyVICE - Emma OckermanA 12-year-old girl mimed a gun shape with her fingers last month at her Kansas middle school and pointed the “gun” at four other students and herself. For that, she was hauled off school property in handcuffs.
VICE INDIATimothée Chalamet Timothée Chalamet Deserves Better Than 'The King'VICE - Ryan BassilWill Timothée Chalamet transcend the lightly troubled, pretty-boy archetype of most of his film roles so far? Does he look good with blood smattered all over his face? Can he fight?! These were a few the
VICE INDIAEating The 'Wellness Influencer' Lifestyle Can Be a Gateway to Disordered EatingVICE - Katie WayLee Tilghman, an influencer better known as “Lee From America,” has built up a following in the hundreds of thousands with her wellness-oriented content. Think: ads for products like charcoal and collagen
VICE INDIAEmoji What the Emoji You’re Sending Actually Look Like to Your FriendsVICE - Meghan NealImagine if a heart emoji sent from one person's device showed up on the recipient's app as a pile of poo. It'd be social bedlam. That doesn't happen because emoji are standardized by Unicode to prevent
VICE INDIASatire This 'Joker' Parody About a Gritty Oscar the Grouch Is PerfectVICE - River DonagheySaturday Night Live is back and spotty as ever, but between last week's opening monologue from Phoebe Waller-Bridge and this week's genius new movie parody, it looks like the show's still got it. During
VICE INDIANicotine Why People Are Dying from Vaping in the U.S. and Not the U.K.VICE - Alex NorciaWhenever Matt Culley travels to England, he feels as if he has entered a sort of Twilight Zone. A prominent vaping advocate on YouTube in the United States, Culley went so far as to describe the scene
VICE INDIAFish If You See This Fish That Can Breathe on Land, Kill It Immediately: OfficialsVICE - Becky FerreiraThe northern snakehead, an invasive fish that can breathe air and survive on land, has been spotted for the first time in the state of Georgia, prompting officials to warn the public to destroy the species
VICE INDIAInstagram A Big Fuck You to the Instagram 'Following' TabVICE - Daisy JonesIt’s 11PM and you’re settling down to sleep. Everything is fine. You plump up your pillows, turn off the lamp. You reach for your phone to set an alarm. But then your thumb absent-mindedly taps the Instagram
VICE INDIAHair Fighting for Recognition as a Male Erotic Performer in AustraliaVICE - VICE Staff"I’m not a stripper, I’m a performer," says Sid Saayman. "I dance, I sing, I act—I do all of these other things that you pay good money to go and see a production for. But I do add the element of a little
VICE INDIADisability Public Servant Fired After Pissing in the Office KettleVICE - Gavin ButlerName one single set of circumstances where it’s okay to piss in a kettle. None come to mind. The act of urinating into a teapot—of emptying one’s bladder into a white good that is more typically used boiling
VICE INDIACalifornia California Just Became the First American State to Require Public Colleges to Provide AbortionsVICE - Marie SolisCalifornia became the first state in the country to require its public universities to provide medication abortion on campus after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “College Student Right to Access Act,” or
VICE INDIAEllen Degeneres Ellen and Science Confirm: Rich People Only Care About ThemselvesVICE - Harron WalkerSurprised that Ellen DeGeneres was seen yukking it up with George W. Bush at a football game last weekend? Don’t be! Rich people love hanging out with other rich people. So, since Ellen’s a multimillionaire,
VICE INDIAPlastic This Village in the Philippines Is Letting Residents Trade Their Plastic Waste for RiceVICE - Lia SavilloThe Philippines is the world’s third largest marine polluter despite a waste management act that was approved over a decade ago. This is attributed to poorly enforced laws and no regulations on packaging
VICE INDIAChina South Park Episode Banned By China Screened On Hong Kong StreetsVICE - Edoardo LiottaAfter an episode of South Park got the series banned in China, it was screened on Hong Kong streets on Tuesday night. The episode called “Band In China” came out last week, and called out Hollywood for
VICE INDIAFinancial Crime Korea Fines Top YouTubers Almost $1 Million For Tax EvasionVICE - Edoardo LiottaKorean YouTubers are really rich. So rich that even a six-year-old Korean YouTuber managed to buy a home worth $8 million. But does anyone actually know how YouTubers and influencers are taxed? Apparently,
VICE INDIASocial Media A Guide to Making Social Media Less Toxic for YouVICE - Edoardo LiottaMultiple studies have linked social media usage to mental health struggles. The JAMA Pediatrics Journal found that social media use could enhance symptoms of depression among young people, while one by
VICE INDIAInternet Am I an Asshole for Hating People Who Tweet 'Send Cute Pets?' An InvestigationVICE - Samantha ColeI've never once said "I could really use a photo of a dog right about now" in the middle of a truly bad day, or tweeted a request that said something like "please send cute pet pics." But a certain subcategory
VICE INDIAUniverse Scientists Are Chasing an Ancient Signal That Could Explain the Modern UniverseVICE - Becky FerreiraAll around the world, radio antennae in remote landscapes are scanning the sky for the same faint signal from the “cosmic dawn,” a time when the first stars shone more than 12 billion years ago. If detected,
VICE INDIASubculture These Photos Capture 70 Years of Teenage SubculturesVICE - Emma FinamoreSurrounded by half-empty cans of spray paint, a group of young men strike b-boy poses in front of a graffiti-covered wall. Slickly-dressed dancers smile for the camera, flexing their Iceberg and DKNY for
