Asia Democracy Chronicles

Feminists want to disrupt the tech world with a focus on products and projects that focus on communities and step away from the shadow of Big Tech.

Already spooked by the recent implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, Indian rights advocates and members of the opposition worry that the Modi government has a follow-up move that will have a more negative impact on the country’s Muslim minority.

An almost-guaranteed win by the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming polls has India’s religious minorities, particularly the Muslims, more worried than ever.

Myanmar nationals who left their homeland in haste to avoid military conscription are trying to figure out their next steps in Thailand.

Red-tagging continues unabated under the nearly two-year-old administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., with most of the cases escaping public scrutiny.

Article 23, Hong Kong’s ‘homegrown’ national security law, sparks fears of a widening crackdown on the city’s already diminished civil society and beleaguered pro-democracy actors.

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists say sustaining local interest for their cause in Japan has been challenging.

The recent court conviction of a man in Pakistan for sodomizing his wife established an important legal precedent for marital-rape cases in the country, but deeply embedded societal norms and beliefs mean women are still far from being free of sexual violence from their husbands.

Across India, the country’s revered peafowl go head to head with farmers over crops.

The Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts say that so long as the 1997 peace accord is not fully implemented and enforced, they will remain at risk of being abused without any means of redress.

A new draconian national security bill is on the fast track to becoming law in Hong Kong, but this early many of the city’s people know they no longer have the option to even just speak up against it.

The constant reuse of syringes and needles and the preference of many people for injections over oral medicine are helping spread HIV in Pakistan.

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A short spillover of the Myanmar conflict into Bangladesh in February was enough to cause worry and injuries as it left at least two people dead.

The ongoing slush-funds scandal of Japan’s ruling party highlights how the country’s politics have become dependent on personal relationships.

Indian rights activists and labor unions rue government-backed recruitment drives for work in Israel, saying they are fraught with violations of Indian laws.

Wary of scrutiny that may lead to persecution, many Vietnamese would rather not have authorities know what faith they follow.

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The city-state's latest increase in its Goods and Services Tax is stirring up its normally stoic citizens.

With rights advocates under siege in Kashmir, fresh killings in the valley are highlighting just how much abuses by security forces are going unchecked.