By Kiana Duncan • Aug 17, 2021
As large fashion brands begin placing garment orders once again in Myanmar, the sector's largely female workforce must balance diminished worker’s rights, threats to physical safety and post-coup political considerations with the need for a paycheque

By Sam Reeves and M. Jegathesan/AFP • Aug 16, 2021
Malaysia's Muhyiddin Yassin and his government resigned after criticisms over power-grabbing amidst coronavirus outbreak, throwing the country into fresh political turmoil

By Govi Snell • Aug 16, 2021
Despite liberal laws and among the highest abortion rates in the world, stigma towards the practice is pervasive in Vietnam. Representing a hard-line faction of anti-abortion sentiment, groups across the country collect fetal remains from clinics for burial

By Dessy Sagita and Haeril Halim/AFP • Aug 13, 2021
The Southeast Asian nation has been hit by its worst Covid-19 surge yet as the ultra-infectious Delta variant sent deaths skyrocketing and left a trail of devastated parents in its wake