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Hadiqa Bashir

Society pakistan

Pakistan’s Anti-Child Marriage Crusader Who’s Just A Kid Herself

by Worldcrunch October 23, 2024

Buddhists monks in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Society sri lanka

Religious Hatred Spreads In Sri Lanka As Buddhists Target Muslim Minority

by Jeff Israely September 24, 2024

Hibaku Jumoku, the "survivor trees"

The Silent Survivor Of Hiroshima

by Julie Farrar September 24, 2024

Belly-dancing in Beijing

How Belly Dancing In China Has Become The Hip New Thing

by Liz Garrigan September 17, 2024

Basira Joya, 20, presents a news program at Zan TV, the first-ever all-woman television channel

In The News afghanistan

Female-Only TV Station Hits Afghanistan Airwaves

by Worldcrunch July 10, 2024

Indonesian President Joko Widodo

Geopolitics indonesia

Darling Of West, Indonesia’s Jokowi OKs Executions For Drug Crimes

by Bertrand Hauger July 5, 2024

Anti-death penalty protest in Jakarta

Society indonesia

Indonesia Asks If Death Penalty Can Curb Terrorism

by Liz Garrigan July 5, 2024

Muhammad Sadiq and his family on a truck to Jalalabad

Geopolitics pakistan

Pakistani Response To Peshawar School Massacre: Deport Afghan Refugees

by Patrick Randall July 5, 2024

Relatives of the victims

Geopolitics pakistan

With Survivors And Victims, A Month After Pakistani School Massacre

by Worldcrunch July 5, 2024

Afghan couple during the Shawe Kheena (Henna Night)

Society afghanistan

No More Big Fat Afghan Weddings

by Worldcrunch July 5, 2024

Nearly half of India's missing children remain untraced.

Indian Police Find 300 Kidnapped Children After Being Chided For Inaction

by Worldcrunch July 5, 2024

Collecting garbage at Garbage Clinical Insurance

Society indonesia

In Indonesia, Patients Trade Recyclable Trash for Health Care

by Anne Sophie Goninet July 5, 2024

Plastic surgery ads in Seoul's Apgujeong subway station

Society south korea

In South Korea, Plastic Surgery As Path To Career Advancement

by Liz Garrigan May 22, 2024

Jakarta's 'pink house'

LGBTQ Plus indonesia

Indonesia’s First Retirement Home For Transgenders

by Bertrand Hauger May 22, 2024

China spends $2.5 billion a year on cosmetic surgery

The Competitive Spirit Driving China’s Love Affair With Plastic Surgery

by Liz Garrigan May 22, 2024

Indonesian beauty pageant contestant Janicel Lubina (center)

Geopolitics philippines

The Philippines, Where Beauty Contests Are A National Obsession

by Felicia Tapia May 22, 2024

Bali Starling

Society indonesia

Racing To Save Bali’s Endangered Starling

by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024

A wedding in Gangnam

Society south korea

Over-The-Top Korean Weddings, Gangnam-Style

by Bertrand Hauger May 22, 2024

Vinod Thakur on a dance competition TV show â€” Photo: Shimul Hossain screenshot

Meet India’s Favorite Hip Hop Dancer, He Has No Legs

by Anne Sophie Goninet May 22, 2024

A child jockey in Indonesia

Society indonesia

In Indonesia, Where 4-Year-Old Kids Work As Jockeys

by Anouk Cohen May 22, 2024

Teuku Akbar Maulana, saved from ISIS

Geopolitics turkey

Mom vs. ISIS: Indonesian Student Torn About Going To Syria

by Worldcrunch May 22, 2024

Change on its way

Take Back The Street: Safety, Empowerment In India’s Women-Only Taxis

by Julie Farrar May 21, 2024

Earthquake survivors in Kathmandu

Fighting Sexual Assault In Rubble Of Nepal Earthquake

by Giacomo May 21, 2024

Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2010 â€” Afghanistan's national women's soccer team

Society afghanistan

League Of Their Own: Women’s Soccer Gains Ground In Afghanistan

by Bertrand Hauger May 21, 2024

Banyan trees in Baucau

Food / Travel Timor-Leste

Young Asian Nation Of Timor-Leste Banking On Tourism

by Liz Garrigan April 13, 2024

Students at Barefoot College

In India, Turning The Illiterate Into Solar Engineers

by Bertrand Hauger April 13, 2024

A tourist inside Yangon's Musmeah Yeshua, the last surviving synagogue in Myanmar

Society myanmar

The One Burmese Synagogue That Survived The Regime

by Anne Sophie Goninet April 13, 2024

The US.. dropped more than 260 million cluster bomblets on Laos during the Vietnam War

Geopolitics Lao's

Laos, A Risky Cleaning Job In The World’s Most Bombed Country

by Bertrand Hauger April 13, 2024

Beijing 's China Metals Recycling Association makes $40 billion a year.

How China Profits From Recycling The World’s Waste

by Julie Farrar April 13, 2024

Protests have continued for decades

Geopolitics india

Bhopal Gas Tragedy Still Burns 30 Years Later

by Bertrand Hauger April 13, 2024

Police officer in Herat, Afghanistan

Society afghanistan

When Afghan Police Start Using Taliban-Style Harassment

by Patrick Randall April 13, 2024

Mother and daughter in Patan, Nepal

In Nepal, Women As Second-Class Citizen Takes A Sad New Twist

by Patrick Randall April 13, 2024

Sacred cow in New Delhi

Food / Travel india

High Stakes In Battle Over Beef Ban In India

by Bertrand Hauger April 13, 2024

Montelago is on the coast of Mindoroâ€™s Lake Naujan

Future philippines

Under Their Feet: A Filipino Village Taps Geothermal Energy

by Justine De Almeida April 13, 2024

Univoca app, bridging the lingo gap between the two Koreas.

Future north korea

App Helps North Korean Defectors Learn Southern Slang

by Worldcrunch April 13, 2024

There are just a few cinemas left in Kabul

Society afghanistan

Why Afghans Don’t Go To The Movies

by Worldcrunch April 13, 2024

Visitor at Hong Kong's Asia Seafood Exposition

Global Gourmet hong kong

Hong Kong’s Seafood Appetite Threatens Marine Species

by Worldcrunch April 13, 2024

Amporn Wathanavong with some of the children his organization helps

Society thailand

How A Thai Orphan Went From Child Soldier To Humanitarian Leader

by Worldcrunch April 13, 2024

Woman from the Padaung tribe in Ywama village, Myanmar

Society myanmar

Myanmar’s “Giraffe Women,” Embodying A Vanishing Custom

by Worldcrunch April 13, 2024

Mairman Radio founder Maryam Durani

Society afghanistan

Afghan Woman Fights Taliban, One Radio Program At A Time

by Bertrand Hauger April 13, 2024March 20, 2025