Pakistani journalists held nationwide protests Tuesday to denounce rampant censorship by the country's powerful security services, massive layoffs due to budget cuts and months-long delays in payments of their wages. The ...
Japan among 22 nations issuing rebuke over China's detention of Uighurs
U.N. experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims are held in detention centers in the remote western region.
Vintage fashion: Senior runway models bridging South Korea's age divide
Aged 70 she was working 20 hours a day in a hospital just to make ends meet. Now at 75, Choi Soon-hwa is an unlikely fashion star and model in South ...
In drought-hit Delhi, the haves get limitless water while the poor fight for every drop
In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India's rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate lobbyists who live in substantial houses and apartments in central Delhi pay very little to ...
Pakistan's Hazaras yearn for normalcy despite fear of attack by extremist militants
High walls around the neighborhoods of Pakistan's embattled Hazara community in the southwestern city of Quetta are designed to protect them from extremist militants, but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face. Soldiers and security checkpoints greet visitors to Hazara Town, ...
Hong Kong on Tuesday began picking up after historic protests left the legislature ransacked, the streets littered with spent tear gas canisters and the city's Beijing-backed leader promising to push back against further unrest. Chief Executive Carrie Lam used a dramatic 4 a.m. news conference ...
Myanmar to send envoys to Rohingya camps in Bangladesh to tell refugees they can go home
Myanmar is sending a high-level delegation soon to camps in Bangladesh to explain to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims how they can return home, Myanmar's U.N. ambassador said Monday. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled a crackdown by Myanmar's military in 2017 in Rakhine state and ...
Model senior citizens: Older South Koreans take to the catwalk and YouTube
Boasting a beard and gray wavy hair, 65-year-old Kim Chil-doo glared into the wall, poised and confident, as he practiced his runway walk among young, pin-thin models at an academy in Seoul this month. Kim became South Korea's first senior fashion model last year, realizing ...
South Koreans criticize bottom-wiggling stunt to promote women's rights
An event to promote women's rights in South Korea featuring female opposition party supporters pulling down their shorts has drawn widespread criticism, with many saying the stunt revealed a patriarchal culture in the party and Korean society generally. Despite its economic advances, South Korean society ...
Sold into marriage, Pakistani women endure rape in China
At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldn't bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband — a Chinese man her family sold her off to ...
Belgium says it will work toward giving visas to once-missing Uighur family in China
Belgium says it is working toward providing visas to a Uighur family that went missing after being escorted out of its embassy in Beijing last week under murky circumstances. The woman and her four children disappeared for weeks, alarming her husband, before reportedly being located ...
Belgium seeks Uighur family in Xinjiang after police took them from its Beijing embassy
A Belgian diplomat was expected to travel to China's restive Xinjiang region on Tuesday to confirm the whereabouts of a Uighur family that was escorted from Belgium's embassy in Beijing by police last month. The disappearance of the woman and her four children has alarmed ...
