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Cambodia has no enforced drinking age at all. Malaysia will fine a bar for serving a 20-year-old. A country-by-country breakdown of where Southeast Asia sets the line, and the law behind each number.
Weird Genius spent two weeks on the Indonesian island of Sumba recording a disappearing traditional instrument for their new single, "Your Side." It's the same instinct that got 2020's "Lathi" signed to Astralwerks as the label's first act from Asia.
Condé Nast Traveller put Bangkok first in its 2026 Readers' Choice Awards, a city that wasn't even in the top 20 a year ago. Time Out had already called its nightlife the best on the planet.
Seth Troxler called KYO Kuala Lumpur's Void Acoustics rig the best sound system in the world. Here is how it compares to Zouk Singapore's new L-Acoustics install, Savaya's unpublicized system and Illuzion Phuket's Vegas-style Outline rig.
Gabber Modus Operandi, the Bali duo who fused gabber with gamelan, got a beat credit on Björk's Fossora, plus a solo record that followed.
BELIFT LAB's teaser for ILLIT's comeback single has Filipino listeners hearing Budots, the whistle-and-snap genre DJ Love built from Davao street noise two decades ago. Nobody at HYBE has said a word about it.
Thailand arrested an American DJ in Chiang Mai for working without a permit.
Bangkok's most famous record shop sells molam and luk thung. Singapore's best-known vinyl bar closed in 2020. Here is where Southeast Asia's house and techno DJs actually dig, city by city.
Thailand's weed shops are still open, but a 2025 law now requires a doctor's prescription to buy legally, and the rules get far stricter the moment you cross into a neighboring country.
Southeast Asia's six biggest clubbing countries split evenly on vaping: Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore ban it outright, and Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines sell it legally. The law, country by country.
Xhin has released on Stroboscopic Artefacts and CLR, been remixed by Surgeon, and is one of only a handful of Asian artists to have played Berghain, Tresor and Paris's Concrete. In Singapore, almost nobody knows his name.
Justine Mei Ern built her name on London dancefloors and a Pioneer DJ training programme. Mixmag Asia just named her one of 2026's artists to watch, and she's back in Kuala Lumpur running a sold-out psychedelic techno night and teaching the next generation on open decks nights.