Nearly 140 South Korean school students killed themselves in 2012, according to a new government report that cited family problems, depression and exam stress as the main triggers. The report, published this week by the Education Ministry, recorded 139 suicides last year — the ...

More than 30 same-sex couples will say “I do” Monday when New Zealand becomes the first Asia-Pacific country and only the 14th in the world to legalize gay marriage. The move has sparked a raft of competitions to set wedding firsts, but also unease ...

The popular Indian holiday state of Goa has announced a ban on dance bars, further restricting the party scene in a destination once famous as a paradise for ravers. The state has progressively tightened controls on nightclubs and outdoor parties over the last few ...

As a teenager radicalized by China’s Cultural Revolution, Zhang Hongbing denounced his mother to the authorities. Two months later a firing squad shot her dead. Now, after more than 40 years of mounting guilt, Zhang has ruffled the silence that cloaks China’s decade of ...

Women in poverty-stricken Papua New Guinea suffer “severe brutality” with violence, including savage attacks involving knives, axes and whips, occurring in two-thirds of all families, a new study said Tuesday. Based on interviews in Central province’s Rigo district, the report by Australian charity ChildFund ...

China is studying whether to relax its one-child policy to allow more couples to have two children, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported, citing the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Policymakers are considering a change that would allow a second baby if ...

A spate of deadly knife attacks and other apparently random acts of violence in the past few days has rattled the Chinese government.

When 24-year-old Komal Kapoor handed over the twins she had just borne to a visiting American couple last month, she said she felt “something like sadness.” But that lasted just a few minutes. “In my head I kept saying, ‘These are not my children, ...