Society

Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety of alphabets used, a product of the country’s many changes and the long march toward fully using a Latin script. 

While cultural traditions provide some space for trans women, trans men are invisible and live isolated lives.

More than 3,500 people attempted to flee Myanmar and Bangladesh by sea last year, nearly five times more than in 2021.

Despite growing cooperation with Washington, an anti-U.S. streak runs deep among communist leaders and the general public alike. 

Seniors living in poverty or working to supplement their income are on the rise as Japan’s public pension system cracks under a super aging society. 

Those numbers may still underestimate the toll, though the government said the "emergency peak" of its latest surge appears to have passed.

China's population has begun to decline about a decade earlier than previously expected.

At 12, an Australian child “cannot lawfully sign onto Facebook but can be questioned, arrested, detained, and imprisoned.”

Five individuals are accused of "criminal negligence" for their alleged roles in the crowd crush, which took the lives of 135 spectators.

How the Philippines became “ground zero” for the corrosive effects of social media.

The communal violence of April 2022 was more the norm than the exception in the city of Khambhat.

Despite anticipating a weekend crowd of more than 100,000, Seoul police had assigned just 137 officers to Itaewon on the day of the crush.