Photo Essays

After the Chennai oil spill of January 28, workers haul buckets of sludge from the ocean.

Hundreds of migrant construction workers reside in shipping containers in the outskirts of Bangkok.

A visit to the mysterious cave paintings requires a six-hour journey by motorbike and a ferry ride.

"In Delhi alone, more than 3 million newspapers are distributed to homes every morning within hours of their printing."

The children who live, play, and sometimes work at construction sites in Phnom Penh.

Pollution is threatening the world's holiest Sikh shrine.

In Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, the remnants of Buddhism sit in the Soviet Union’s lingering shadow.

In a difficult operation, Nepali workers lower the water level in a dangerous glacial lake.

Grief rocked the capital of Tamil Nadu after the death of the state's long-time chief minister.

Some see the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University as a “den of communists.” Others see vibrant student activism.

For just the second time in 6 years, Phnom Penh celebrated the Water Festival.

This year’s Taipei Pride parade comes at a pivotal moment in the island’s gay rights movement.