Asia

Here’s how lousy life is in North Korea

by Rick Newman US News and World Report April 12, 2013

North Korean commuters ride on a trolley car in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, April 12, 2013. Reflected in the window is a roadside propaganda banner that reads: "Let's follow the example of the space conquerors," referring to the country's rocke...

Indian residents in a district facing a drinking water shortage wait with plastic pots at a community tube well to collect drinking water in Bangalore on October 8, 2012. Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

India states fight over river usage

by Shyamantha Asokan Washington Post April 3, 2013

MAGIZHI, India —Valan, a rice farmer in a starched white shirt and sarong, walked along the bone-dry canal bed next to his village in the state of Tamil Nadu as though it were a road. The canal should have been full from last June until the end of ...

Rethinking food insecurity in Nepal’s Karnali region

by IRIN News March 21, 2013

“We can’t just stop relief all at once. There are still thousands of people in the Karnali that still need some form of relief assistance at least in the short-term,” Jagannath Adhikari, an agricultural scientist and author of the book Food Cri...

An Indian vegetable vendor, an SKS Microfinance loan recipient, manages her stall in a village near the city of Ahmedabad. Microsavings programs are bringing the benefits of thrift even to the poorest of the poor. Photo: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images

Microsavings programs build wealth, pennies at a time

by Ylan Q Mui Washington Post March 15, 2013

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Veteran Burmese activist Win Tin says democracy icon Suu Kyi is too conciliatory toward the military

by Simon Denyer Washington Post March 13, 2013

RANGOON, Burma — For most of two decades, while Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest, her deputy Win Tin was condemned to solitary confinement in prison, denied even pen and paper by his jailers....

A flurry of fires in Bangladesh raise concerns over garment-worker safety

by Jason Motlagh Washington Post March 1, 2013

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