For Jisi Lazuo, the torch festival in her village in southwest China should be a celebration involving colorful ethnic clothes and eating freshly slaughtered pig. Instead, it's a time of stress. "In my heart I always get worried when the torch festival comes along," said Jisi, 37, who supports a family of ...
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a western Myanmar village, residents ...
An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, ...
A Philippine Catholic leader said Sunday that church bells will be rung every night for three months across his northern district to raise the alarm over a sharp spike in police killings of drug suspects, adding to a growing outcry over President Rodrigo Duterte's ...
A Melbourne cafe went viral on social media this week after introducing an 18 percent "man tax" to raise awareness of Australia's gender pay gap. The gender surcharge at the Handsome Her cafe is optional and the proceeds are donated to a women's charity, cafe ...
A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian nurse to 18 months in prison for sourcing clients for a surrogacy clinic in the impoverished kingdom, as authorities tackle "womb for rent" businesses. Tammy Davis-Charles, 49, has been in custody since her arrest in November last ...
The number of North Koreans slipping illegally into Thailand has surged in recent months, according to immigration bureau officials, as tensions mount on the Korean Peninsula because of Pyongyang's weapons programs. Thailand is on a popular transit route for North Koreans defecting from the impoverished ...
A Japanese historian who helped Cambodians preserve the Angkor temples and a Sri Lankan teacher who counseled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares are among the six winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize. The ...
Singapore has voided the marriage of a couple after the husband underwent sex reassignment surgery, making their partnership a same-sex union that contravened the city-state's laws, a report said Tuesday. The couple married as man and woman in 2015 but the husband underwent sex reassignment ...
The young woman labored up the steps, past brightly decorated walls akin to a child's nursery, her daughter in her arms. Opening a hatch in the wall, she put the child inside, turned around and walked away. She ran her hands over her head but ...
One of South Korea's hottest YouTube stars is a 70-year-old grandmother whose cool, undaunted style and hilarity are a breath of fresh air in a social media universe that exalts youth and perfect looks. Park Makrye's videos are all about showing off her wrinkles and ...
Teenage male model Han Hyun-min's long legs and powerful strut have made him a rising star on South Korean catwalks, but his agent knew there would be a problem in the ethnically homogeneous country: he is half black. Han, 16, has a Nigerian father in ...
The hills around the revered Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist academy were once a seamless carpet of vibrant red, dominated by the homes of thousands of monks, nuns and devotees who crowded the remote valley in southwest China to explore their faith. Today, the landscape is ...
When senior bureaucrats visited the remote Thai province where local official Boonyarit Nipavanit worked, the routine was often the same: welcome them with the finest food and drink and then bring out the teen girls, often referred to as "dessert." The tradition — known by ...
Pakistan has issued its first third-gender passport to a transgender activist, who hailed the move as a step forward for the marginalized community in the deeply conservative South Asian country. Farzana Riaz, a transgender in the northwestern city of Peshawar, said the new passport would ...
