Pressured over media rights, Myanmar frees Reuters reporters
May 8, 2019
2 Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar's Officials Secrets Act have been pardoned and released
Pakistani Christian girls trafficked to China as brides
May 7, 2019
Pakistan's tiny, impoverished Christian community is a new target in the aggressive market for brides for China, activists and officials say
Pakistan's ex-PM Sharif heads to jail after bail expires
May 7, 2019
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is heading back to prison after six weeks out on bail to receive medical treatment ended
Bride market trafficks Pakistani Christian women to China
May 7, 2019
Hundreds young women from Pakistan's small Christian minority have been trafficked to China as brides in recent months as their community is targeted in an aggressive new marriage market, activists and officials say
India's chief justice cleared of sexual harassment complaint
May 6, 2019
A court inquiry has cleared India's chief justice of sexual harassment allegations made by a former employee at his official residence in New Delhi
Gandhis hope to keep seats in 5th phase of India's elections
May 6, 2019
Polling has opened for the fifth phase of India's marathon elections including in two constituencies in the vote-rich state of Uttar Pradesh where opposition Congress party president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi hope to retain their seats
Modi flexes muscles in Kashmir to woo India's Hindu voters
May 6, 2019
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a hard-line approach to Kashmir, and while unpopular in the disputed Muslim-majority territory, the campaign is resonating with his nationalist Hindu base
2 arrested after clash in Sri Lanka town hit by Easter blast
May 6, 2019
Two people arrested, curfew lifted in a Sri Lankan town where a suicide bombing targeted a Catholic church and weekend clashes were said to involve majority ethnic Sinhalese and Muslims
Supporters of Chinese billionaire's accuser decry censorship
May 3, 2019
Six Chinese social media accounts have been shut down after they advocated support for a woman who has accused the founder of online shopping giant JD.com, Richard Liu, of rape in Minnesota
New attacks on Sri Lanka churches planned, cardinal says
May 2, 2019
Catholic services are being canceled for a second weekend in Sri Lanka's capital after the government warned of more possible attacks by the same Islamic State-linked group that carried out Easter suicide bombings
