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Rights activists say marriage of Maya Gurung, a transgender woman, and Surendra Pandey is ‘historic day’An LGBTQ+ couple in Nepal have said they want to “scream to the world that we are husband and wife at last” after becoming the first in south Asia t…
Read MoreThe story of girl’s refusal to be shamed by her gang-rape and a father’s fight for justice, defying a village’s hostility and the dead weight of patriarchy, is told in Nisha Pahuja’s film To Kill a TigerWhen his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six y…
Read MoreIn the official telling, fears of malevolent spirits are a vestige of old, unenlightened village ways. But today urban China is rife with superstition about death. Why?On the 11th floor of a suburban Hong Kong tower, an 86-year-old woman lived alone in…
Read MoreActivists have secured a string of legal victories in Hong Kong but it is a very different story on the mainlandAfter months of pandemic-related delays, Asia’s first Gay Games was held in Hong Kong last week, with nearly 2,400 athletes competing. At th…
Read MoreCensorship targets ‘overly effusive’ comments, gatherings or references to Li’s views on economic reformPublic tributes to China’s former premier Li Keqiang, who died on Friday, are being strictly controlled as the government seeks to prevent a mass ou…
Read MoreJudges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeJapan’s top court has ruled that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender is …
Read MoreIt is easy to blame Bollywood and the media for unrealistic expectations of beauty – but there are deeper social factors at workWhen Indian actor Aishwarya Rai, once Miss World, walked the runway at Paris fashion week for L’Oréal this month, the online…
Read MoreSuicides throw spotlight on gruelling culture of cramming for entrance exams and great burden placed on studentsFor the 300,000 students who flock to Kota every year, this hot, dusty city in the Indian state of Rajasthan is a pressure cooker of perform…
Read MoreAnger is still seen as admirable in men but unacceptable in women. It’s time to end the tyranny of gendered emotionsWhen the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team was banned for two matches and fined for smashing the stumps with her bat in an angr…
Read MoreWHO says China facing ‘sustained community transmission’ of virus first detected as imported case last yearChina is fuelling a global surge in mpox cases, accounting for the majority of new cases reported in September, according to the World Health Or…
Read MoreHomeworkers in an all-female cooperative in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu – known as India’s knitwear capital – took part in a photography project where they were given cameras to document their work. All the women belong to the Anukatham union, which is fightin…
Read MoreSimon Diggins, a former defence attaché to Kabul, suggests the UK should amend its Afghan civilian resettlement schemeZahra Joya’s moving piece reminds us that our interventions in Afghanistan created an expectation, and obligation, to support those wh…
Read MoreLarge-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities Infectious, deadly and long associated with poverty, tuberculosis causes weight loss, while poor diets increase the lik…
Read MoreAs jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators‘I had to watch every frame of a recent stabbing video … It will never leave me,” says Harun*, one of many moderators reviewing…
Read MoreAfter India imposed an export ban on rice following destructive rains, prices have soared – now other countries across south-east Asia are following suitNormally by mid-August Thongpoon Moonchansong’s fields are submerged in still waters, with scattere…
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