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A redacted online resume of a North Korean IT worker is shown in this screenshot obtained on Monday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Nov 21, 2023

North Koreans use fake names to land remote IT work for cash

By James Pearson

Landing a job outside North Korea to secretly earn hard currency for the country demands highly-developed strategies to convince Western firms.

Children with their parents pray in a temporary church at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township in Myanmar's Kayah state.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Nov 20, 2023

Myanmar's displaced pray and teach under deadly skies

The junta has battered Kayah with airstrikes from its Russian and Chinese-built jets, and more than 100,000 people are now displaced in the state.

Kyrgyz male labor migrants wait to depart for work in Russia at the office of a company organizing passenger transportation on Oct. 17.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Nov 16, 2023

Pressured amid war effort, Central Asia migrants leave Russia

By Bruno KALOUAZ

Moscow is offering incentives for migrants to work in places like Mariupol, while enlistment offices seek to entice them into the Russian army.

A mother assists her child to breathe with the help of a nebuliser at the emergency ward of the government-run Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya children hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Nov 10, 2023

'Like breathing poison': Delhi children hardest hit by smog

By Abhaya SRIVASTAVA

"Imagine telling a parent not to let their child go out and play in this toxic environment."

Vehicles and pedestrians by the intersection of Burgos and Real streets in Tacloban city, Leyte province, the Philippines, on Oct. 12.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Nov 6, 2023

Sex trafficking plagues Philippine city where typhoon wrought havoc

By Mariejo Ramos

Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people and displaced millions, triggered a humanitarian crisis that provided fertile ground for traffickers.

Coffins carrying bodies of Thai migrant agricultural workers who were killed in an attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel, arrive at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand, on Oct. 20

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Oct 31, 2023

Stay or leave? Israel's migrant workers face tough choices

By Lin Taylor, Mariejo Ramos and Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai

While many migrant workers fear for their safety if they stay in Israel, some said they cannot afford to give up their jobs.

A community health worker speaks during a meeting with pregnant teenagers, teen mothers and their partners, in Navotas, Metro Manila, in 2016.

ASIA PACIFIC / Social Issues

Oct 28, 2023

Can new law help tackle Philippines' teen pregnancy emergency?

By Mariejo Ramos

The costs of teen pregnancies in the country are high, with around 30% of the population now under 15 years old.

An official shot for this year’s lineup for NHK’s annual “Kohaku Uta Gassen.”

Things get warmer with Xi; Johnny’s get the cold shoulder

Yoshiko Koide sits in a classroom at Nagoya College where she teaches a Japanese-language observation seminar.

How a dictionary came to spark outrage among the web’s otaku

By Thu-Huong Ha and Yukana Inoue

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