Society

A new law allows children to be imprisoned in police watch houses, the equivalent of jails in the United States, as youth detention centers overflow. All while the number of youth offenders hits a decade low.

The Ramon Magsaysay Awards honor "greatness of spirit" in selfless service to people across Asia. 

FC Barcelona visited Kyrgyzstan to inaugurate two new football academies. Japarov is touchy about investigations into how the schools are funded.

Police believe the suspects are members of a telephone fraud and online love scam syndicate targeting mostly Chinese. 

The proposed replacement for the IPC misses an opportunity to shed colonial vestiges of oppression against sexual minorities.

With only minor attempts to address the Hague Convention’s flaws, Australia’s rhetoric on seriously addressing domestic abuse rings hollow. 

Digital scam operations are generating billions of U.S. dollars in revenue each year, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a new report.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has provided more evidence of China’s use of enforced disappearances in Xinjiang.

The apex court has overturned the acquittals of two police officers accused of negligence during the Kanjuruhan Stadium crush in October.

People are crowding Sagarmatha and other Himalayan peaks, risking their own lives and those of Sherpas, porters and rescue teams.

The Rohingya issue has become deeply politicized, but there are still possible solutions at hand.

Despite the distance and his declining health, Pope Francis is giving priority to Mongolia. There are three main reasons for that.