Latest From This Author
The prized tropical hardwood used in building luxury yachts helps fund Myanmar’s military dictatorship and has long ties to crime syndicates.
-
Encrypted apps, domestic tourists and local residents are keeping a notorious trade alive in Indonesia’s most famous tropical vacation destination.
-
The annual tribute to India’s oppressed castes remains marred by the violence that broke out four years ago.
-
The military is lashing out with growing brutality as resistance intensifies. Teenagers are among the latest victims, believed to have been burned alive.
-
Indonesia is facing a ‘pandemic’ of sexual violence. A law designed to protect women and children is languishing because of opposition from powerful religious conservatives.
-
The sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi is a blow to Myanmar’s democratic aspirations, but worldwide fervor over her fate had already faded.
-
The verdicts come in what is seen as a sham trial to silence a flawed but popular democracy leader amid growing chaos in the Southeast Asian nation.
-
A return to border and social restrictions could upend months of progress in countries such as Singapore, often a bellwether for the rest of Asia.
-
The business dominated by a handful of European and Asian companies finds itself at the center of a logistics crisis that could rewrite the rules of global trade.
-
Working up to 14 hours a day and living in squalor, migrants fuel a $1.7-billion sugar industry. Female laborers suffer the most, coerced at times to undergo hysterectomies so that menstruation won’t interfere with work.
