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...
In Solomons, photographer captures disappearing islands "If the community has to leave the island…they are going to lose their culture.” Few places on earth are as vulnerable to climate change as...
Climate change in South Asia Climate change is already having big effects on southern Asia. Deadly heat waves like one that killed 3,500 people in India and Pakistan in 2015...
Photographer spotlights trauma of Philippines ‘drug war’ "The brutality of the drug war is beyond any human witnessing..." New York-based photographer Lawrence Sumulong has a strong connection to the...
Death squads in the Philippines In recent days Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would withdraw his country from the treaty governing the International Criminal...
Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines The Philippines is in the midst of a spectacularly brutal war on drugs. The man behind it is the President Rodrigo Duterte, who took office June...
Philippines press leader speaks out on bloodshed "Most of those who've been killed so far in the drug war come from the very same social strata to whom appealed most... the poor." Philippines'...
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...
East Timor leader files suit over contract reporting The prime minister of East Timor has filed a criminal defamation suit against a newspaper reporter who wrote an article about potential bid-rigging...
Filipino radio journalist shot dead in his home A Filipino radio journalist has been found shot to death in his home on the southern island of Mindanao. Elvis Banggoy Ordaniza, a 49-year-old...
