Indonesia’s vice-president calls for better flight security in Papua
The country’s easternmost region has been plagued by severe underdevelopment and exploitation, which has galvanized a separatist movement that has simmered for decades.
Society
2023 trends that are redefining engagement jewellery
From lab-grown diamonds to coloured stones, the rocks are ethically sourced; for Ms Chen Meihui, an unheated Montana sapphire.
Child abuse and our crumbling social norms
There is a bias against the poor that leads to a general acceptance of violence against them.
Helping marginalised people in China get justice
Seeing his father curl up on the sickbed in pain, Tang made up his mind to learn sign language so that he would be able to help his parents communicate.
The troubling rise of ‘revenge porn’ in Nepal
This has become a common form of abuse in the country, and is particularly harming young women.
Tokyo police seize patient from NPO in organ transplant probe
The director of the nonprofit organisation is suspected of arranging overseas organ transplants without permission from the Health, Labor, and Welfare ministry.
Biological, adoptive parents fight over compensation
Three months after the drowning of a 16-year-old adopted girl, the ex-gratia award by the special relief commissioner has split two families apart.
Declining births in China trigger calls for action
Experts said that all-out efforts must be made to raise the low fertility rate so as to counter the persistent downward trend and avert a sharp population decline in the long…
Japan’s LDP expected to struggle with LGBT bill
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who is also president of the LDP, has a positive stance on the bill following discriminatory comments made against sexual minorities by a former…
Public health for Indonesia’s new capital city needs careful planning: Experts
While diseases like dengue fever are not unique to East Kalimantan, health experts say that ongoing deforestation to make way for new construction poses an increased risk of human…