Australia’s refugee ‘islands of despair’ Australia's continued detention of about 1,000 refugees and asylum-seekers on two remote Pacific islands has garnered international criticism as...
Child marriage in Southeast Asia In late October, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad issued a directive to state officials: raise the minimum age for marriage to eighteen...
Climate change, environment highlight photographer’s work From the Arctic to the Amazon, Joanna Pinneo has made spotlighting climate change a specialty Twenty years ago this month, National Geographic's...
Papua New Guinea struggles after quake [program] Two months after a major earthquake devastated parts of Papua New Guinea's highlands, one of the world's most remote and diverse nations is still...
Photographer spotlights Papua New Guinea’s tribal dress With tribal traditions under threat, an effort to preserve culture through photography Photographer and cinematographer Wylda Bayrón, with a boy...
Indonesia’s struggle to save tropical forests A new book highlights possible answers to deforestation in the tropics. Preventing climate change is often linked to cutting back on the use of...
Indonesia’s rapid deforestation Indonesia has one of the world's largest remaining areas of tropical forests. From tigers and orangutans to Sumatran elephants, the forests support a...
Grading Obama’s Asia pivot Rebalance in U.S. relations yields mix results A key pillar of President Barack Obama's foreign policy has been the attempted "pivot to...
Uncovering slave labor on Thai fishing boats Thailand is the world's third-largest exporter of seafood, shipping shrimp, tuna and other fish to supermarket chains and pet food companies in the...
Slave labor mars Thai seafood industry Thailand is the world's third-largest exporter of seafood, shipping shrimp, tuna and other fish to supermarket chains and pet food companies in the...
