500-day campaign: Vietnam’s race against time to identify fallen soldiers
Launched on March 15 this year, the campaign combines military, police and scientific efforts to locate remains, collect DNA samples and identify previously unknown martyrs.
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‘I came here for my daughters. Now they send money to help me’: Indian migrant worker in Singapore on unpaid wages case
Kandha Samy Ragupathy, who has been working in Singapore for more than two decades, is among 400 migrant workers affected by months of unpaid wages.
Should South Korean workers get time off to mourn pets?
Support for pet bereavement leave exposes a generational divide over pets, grief and workplace benefits.
South Korea’s early World Cup exit sparks anger and calls for football governance reforms
Many lament the Taegeuk Warriors’ failure to make the knockout stages as an unconscionable squandering of talent in what is widely regarded as its strongest-ever squad.
‘Our sea is gone’: South Korean traditional female divers seek answers, compensation
Fifty-two female divers protest outside a construction firm in southern Seoul, claiming a harbor project cost them their livelihood.
Melting mountains and returning floods—climate emergency of Pakistan’s Swat
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Nepali burn violence survivors push for legal reform beyond acid attacks
Survivors and rights advocates say Nepal’s laws treat victims differently depending on how they were burned and deny many adequate protection, compensation or rehabilitation.
The lost Khoda art of Bangladesh’s Santals: Tattoos, identity and the legacy of the Santal Hul
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They sang on Kathmandu’s streets to survive. The city silenced the music
A municipal crackdown on sidewalk performers has left a community of visually impaired people without a livelihood, sparking protests.
Pride in Indonesia is longer than a coming-out story
Three queer Indonesians, three different relationships with the closet and one thing they all share: a conversation that never ends.