Society

Despite the country's social healthcare provisions, medical debts remain a leading cause of destitution.

Baloch in Pakistan are watching the crackdown on their sisters across the border with dismay.

Myanmar-made yaba, heroin and brown sugar, and India-produced phensedyl are flowing into Bangladesh via India’s northeast.

Thousands rallied in Malang, East Java, where a stadium crush last month led to the deaths of 135 people.

It may be a massive leap for Australia to jump beyond its current linguistic lassitude, but the increasingly difficult strategic terrain requires Canberra to think big and be bold. 

During the pandemic, Japan showed itself to be extremely skeptical toward foreigners, raising questions about the country’s immigration policy going forward.

Nearly 5 million people in the southern Chinese city are under lockdown orders, raising the specter of more supply chain disruptions from China's zero-COVID policy.

Far from demanding accountability from Qatar, South Asian governments have often been mute spectators to the plight of workers and their families at home.

China has played only once in the World Cup, and that was in 2002 when it lost all three games and failed to score a single goal.

Even as public anger rises, health experts and economists say “zero COVID” is likely to stay in place possibly through most of 2023.

"Our public insensitivity to safety is too severe,” one South Korean man told the Associated Press.

Migrant laborers were among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The region needs a long-term plan to support them.