Gananath Obeyesekere, 95, Dies; Anthropologist Bridged East and West
Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose long career and wide-ranging social insights — which drew on Hindu texts, Freud...
Hegseth Pledges to Step Up Military Cooperation With Japan and Deter China
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrapped up his first official visit to the Asia on Sunday by offering reassurances to Jap...
In Myanmar, Earthquake Aftershocks and Airstrikes Terrorize Residents
Myo Zaw and his team of volunteer rescue workers were the first to arrive at the site where a three-story house had collapsed...
After Bangkok Building Collapse, Fearing High-Rises
When the earth started rocking beneath her home in Bangkok on Friday, Kanittha Thepasak thought she was simply dizzy. Then sh...
‘They Will Label Us as Spies’:The Afghan Students Abandoned by America
When she finds it hard to focus, Nilab jots down her worries on slips of paper and pins them to her wall, a strategy she pick...
Taliban Appears to Free American Woman Detained in Afghanistan
An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to a social media post on Saturday by a...
Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors
The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military leade...
Search for Survivors at Collapsed Bangkok Building
Aubonrat Setnawet, an electrician’s helper, was working with her husband on the 23rd floor of a new office tower on the north...
Volunteer Rescuers in Mandalay Sift Through Earthquake Rubble
In Mandalay, near the epicenter of the quake that rocked the region, volunteer rescue workers raced against time as they comb...
Earthquake Devastates Myanmar’s Cultural Sites
The powerful earthquake that shook Myanmar on Friday took a considerable toll on historic and religious sites across the coun...