The escalating conflict in the Middle East may be far from Southeast Asia, but its economic and strategic consequences are already being felt across the region ....
AlixLynx, 36, has spent over �75,000 on cosmetic surgery over the past decade including nose jobs, breast augmentation and Botox. She says her face is practically "frozen in time" ... .
On the mornings of Eid al-Fitr, children in Gaza once eagerly knocked on relatives’ doors, their eyes sparkling with anticipation, waiting for the “Eidiyah”, the traditional gift of money without which the holiday felt incomplete.