Society

In June, the country became the first in Asia to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. But a booming recreational market has prompted a sharp backlash.

New workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou are protesting that the company changed the terms of their work agreements.

The Kazakh public generally remains silent about the plight of ethnic Kazakh detainees held in Xinjiang. The education system is one reason why.

Apprehensions have grown over Hindu nationalist groups seeking to bring these nature worshippers into the Hindu fold.

Balochistan is the country’s poorest province and lacks political patrons.

Recent outbreaks are testing China’s attempt to bring a more targeted approach to its zero-COVID policies.

Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions, which were based hitherto on caste identity, will now include economic criteria as well.

The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide. 

Digital rights in Vietnam are declining as a new system of surveillance and control has emerged in the country, with the support of Western tech giants.

The critically acclaimed film depicts transgender people as normal – something unacceptable in Pakistani society, which has traditionally treated transgender people as outcasts.

The Catholic-majority country now has a birthrate of just 1.9 children per adult woman, the third-lowest in Southeast Asia.