In recent months, trade officials have been meeting behind closed doors, quietly crafting a sweeping new international trade deal that threatens to plunge economies in Asia, Australia and the Americas into a new era of...
At the end of May, Nepal's political consensus unraveled as rival parties failed to agree on a new constitution and Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai dissolved the legislature. Opponents denounced the move as a...
Despite Burma’s steps towards democratic reform, an estimated 600 to 1000 political prisoners still remain behind bars. They are former students, monks, and ordinary villagers, who face torture and solitary confinement...
In Burma, recent political reforms have drawn international praise and a visit from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But these reforms have done little to quell fighting in the country's northern Kachin...
Two exhibits currently up at New York's Rubin Museum of Art explore crossings between comics and ideas of Tibet. In "Hero, Villain,Yeti, " a collection of comic art spanning 60...
The authoritarian military regime of Burma has recently shown signs of thaw: human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed and the country appears to be moving toward a more open electoral process. Some...
This past summer, investigations by the Associated Press revealed the existence of a Demographics Unit within the NYPD that targets Muslim communities for surveillance. Under the program, undercover officers and...
Garment workers across Asia are demanding a living wage for an 8-hour work day. An Asian Alliance of unions and labour rights activists are fighting for an "Asia floor wage" - a minimum living wage to guarantee that...
