Afghanistan’s drug dilemma
A ban on opium poppy cultivation may have come too late to curb Afghanistan’s drug-addiction crisis.
A ban on opium poppy cultivation may have come too late to curb Afghanistan’s drug-addiction crisis.
Far from being passive victims, women in conflict situations play many active roles that keep families and communities from completely ...
While the military junta is determined to stay in power, the people are adamant that democracy return to Myanmar.
Faced with dwindling customers and an indifferent local government, the region’s artisans fear that age-old crafts will disappear with them.
Many are still waiting for permits that will allow them to begin construction work on new homes inside the former ...
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters gathered at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok on Sunday, August 16, to demand radical changes from ...
In Mongolia, Vietnamese mechanics are held in high esteem for their stellar work, but little attention has been paid to...
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Read moreAfter being targeted by Pegasus spyware, a Thai activist fights for justice even as a flawed legal system that dismissed...
Read moreFear of being recruited into the military is making more and more Myanmar youths to try going abroad, but the...
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