Asia

In Timbuktu, conflict shatters a city’s soul

by Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post May 12, 2013

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ILO, World Bank demand labor changes in Bangladesh

by Howard Schneider Washington Post May 10, 2013

The International Labor Organization and World Bank have refused to let Bangladesh join a textile industry monitoring program until the country overhauls its labor laws and conditions for unions improve, according to a top ILO official....

Some retailers rethink role in Bangladesh

by Steven Greenhouse New York Times May 1, 2013

Ever since a building with garment factories collapsed in Bangladesh last week, killing more than 400 people, Western apparel companies with ties to the country have scrambled to address public concerns about working conditions there....

Death toll rises in Bangladesh building collapse

by Julfikar Ali Manik, Steven Greenhouse and Jim Yardley New York Times April 25, 2013

DHAKA, Bangladesh — As rescuers struggled on Thursday to reach survivors in one of the worst manufacturing disasters in history, pointed questions were being raised about why a Bangladesh factory building was not padlocked after terrified workers n...

A slum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Wide dissatisfaction has followed the boom of the 1990s. Photo: Justin Mott/International Herald Tribune

In hard times, open dissent and repression rise in Vietnam

by Thomas Fuller New York Times April 23, 2013

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer. A former adviser t...

China cracks down on anti-corruption activists

by Andrew Jacobs New York Times April 21, 2013

BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have detained six anticorruption activists in recent days, expanding their crackdown on a citizen-led campaign that, on the surface at least, would appear to dovetail with the new leadership’s war on official gra...

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