India’s toilet boom The the practice of outdoor defecation is a major cause of diarrheal diseases that kill about 2,200 children a day - more than die from HIV/AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis combined As of 2015, an estimated...
‘Red Market’ investigator sees growth in organ trade "It is almost dumbfounding how many ways we can sell the body." From grave robbers who sell human skeletons to impoverished villages where dozens of women sell their kidneys to help support their...
Turkey charges three press freedom activists Two Turkish journalists and an academic are facing up to 14 years in a Turkish prison on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda” by guest-editing a pro-Kurdish newspaper. Arrested June 20 were...
Gay magazine editor slain in Bangladesh A founder of Bangladesh's first and only gay magazine has been hacked to death in the capital Dhaka along with a friend, part of a wave of killings of liberal and secular bloggers and activists claimed by...
Maldives journalists face charges after protest The government of the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives has decided to put on trial two journalists for an opposition television station on charges related to their coverage of an anti-government rally in...
Secular Bangladeshi blogger slain, 6th since 2013 A Bangladeshi blogger and law student was attacked and killed by machete-wielding men on a busy road in the capital Dhaka after a series of blog posts critical of the government and Islam. He is the...
Indian reporter arrested in school reporting fracas A newspaper reporter in the troubled central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been arrested on a seven-month-old complaint filed by a principal whose school was the subject of reports of a cheating...
Vietnamese blogger sentenced to four years in prison A Vietnamese blogger has been sentenced to four years in prison for writing critically about the Vietnamese government. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced blogger Nguyen Ngoc Gia, also known...
Chinese journalist disappeared after criticizing leader A Chinese journalist disappeared March 15 and was later confirmed to be detained by the police March 18. Jia Jia, a Beijing-based freelance journalist and columnist at the website Tencent Online, was on...
Five arrested in India after threats to TV anchor Police in the south Indian state of Kerala have arrested five people from a right-wing Hindu nationalist group after a wave of threatening telephone calls to a local television news anchor. Sindhu...
