South Korea’s shining example
Democratic lights may have dimmed briefly in South Korea amid a short-lived martial law imposed by a now deposed president....
Democratic lights may have dimmed briefly in South Korea amid a short-lived martial law imposed by a now deposed president....
New and impending U.S. policies are leaving Afghan refugees in Pakistan with limited options, and Pakistani policies are further complicating...
Myanmar’s junta wants a recent census to help pave the way to elections that it insists on holding, but questions...
Many sex workers in Nepal have found more freedom and control in cyber sex work, but image-based sexual abuse plus...
Branded by Indian authorities as “illegal migrants” who also allegedly pose a national security threat, Rohingya refugees now fear the...
Lebanon’s domestic workers, trapped in the restrictive Kafala system, endure grueling hours and isolation. But on the cricket field, they...
A media crackdown in Mongolia has journalists up in arms – and warier than ever.
A bitter feud between erstwhile political allies in the Philippines seems to have once more dredged up the bloody drug...
In Narendra Modi’s India, members of the country’s Christian minority are coming under attack for allegedly violating state anti-conversion laws.
Nuisance lawsuits are being used not only by businesses but also by governments in Southeast Asia against journalists, rights and...
Women are helping light up villages and even irrigate fields across India using solar-energy gadgets that they make and sell.
South Korea’s quick quashing of an attempt by its president to implement martial rule has neighboring countries looking toward it...
A small group of waste workers is helping keep the world’s highest mountain from becoming inundated with human excrement.
In Pakistan’s Sindh, residents and authorities fear that a planned six-canal project on the Indus River will mean doom for...
Not upsetting authorities rather than delivering important information passes for journalism in Laos.
State repression and control seem to be part of just about every government in Pakistan.
This year may end up a pivotal one in the quest of Myanmar’s resistance forces to free the country from...
Taiwan looks like it will still have a bumpy ride throughout 2025, but there are more than enough Taiwanese who...
An Algerian national realizes that there are many parallels between her North African nation and countries in Asia and that...
Democracy advocates in Asia brace themselves for the second presidency of Donald J. Trump and his ‘America First’ policy.
A humanitarian crisis caused by sectarian clashes in Kurram district in Pakistan’s northwest has revealed that the government is either...
One of Bangladesh’s smallest indigenous minorities is bearing the brunt of military operations against an armed insurgent group.
In Mongolia, Vietnamese mechanics are held in high esteem for their stellar work, but little attention has been paid to...
After being targeted by Pegasus spyware, a Thai activist fights for justice even as a flawed legal system that dismissed...
Democratic lights may have dimmed briefly in South Korea amid a short-lived martial law imposed by a now deposed president....
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