Conservationists have attributed a dwindling demand for shark fins to China's crackdown on corruption which has forced a decline in lavish banquets.
"We are seeing a reduction in demand from China. Hong Kong is also showing a significant decline in (...)
DHAKA: Suresh walks slowly through the market. Nobody looks at him. There are no stares as he purchases the vegetables for tonight's party with friends. It's a costume party and one Suresh, at 33, still enjoys. He's going as "the gay Harry Potter" (...)
NEW DELHI: Sex workers across India have joined hands to launch a national campaign that calls for decriminalization of sex work besides social recognition and legal rights to help eliminate violence and exploitation from their lives.
Sex workers (...)
BANGKOK: A still unidentified dead man, with his head and feet cut off, was found on Thursday morning inside a garbage bag thrown along the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), in Cabuyao City, Laguna, the province next to Metro Manila towards south.
It (...)
BANGKOK: The three girls, recent college drop-outs, watch television for hours, their eyes blood shot, their clothes non-existent. They sit nude in their small one bedroom flat, needles, powder and drugs all strewn together with bowls of aging food (...)
BANGKOK: A group of sex workers and activists are pressing for better access to healthcare and reforms across the Asia-Pacific region with the ultimate goal of decriminalizing sex work in the region.
United Nations officials say that globally sex (...)
BANGKOK: A Philippines woman who fled Saudi Arabia and is currently receiving therapy after experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of her sponsor for 8 months recently sat down with Bikyanews.com to talk about the situation she faced and what other (...)
BANGKOK: In a landmark ruling that has activists across Asia excited for the future of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, a transgender woman and her boyfriend have been granted permission by a Hong Kong court to get married in (...)
BANGKOK: The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday spoke out against the Buddhist attacks against Muslims in Myanmar, arguing that killing in the name of faith is "unthinkable."
It comes on the heels of a wave of sectarian violence (...)
BANGKOK: Activists in Thailand are demanding strong penalties against soldiers seen in a video that went viral using brutality and violence in the country. A number of activists told Bikyanews.com that the government and armed forces must do more to (...)
BANGKOK: A new report by a bipartisan US task force on interrogation and torture of al-Qaeda suspects after the September 11, 2001 attacks presents the most complete picture yet of Thailand's covert role in the process.
But “The Report on Detainee (...)
BANGKOK: The massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province, which is the home of endangered giant pandas, has shaken the cuddly animals so badly that they are refusing to come down from the trees they had climbed out of fear.
Officials in the area (...)
BANGKOK: China's human rights record worsened in 2012 amid an increasingly harsh crackdown on Tibetan and Uighur areas, the United States warned Friday in an annual report.
“The human rights environment in China continued to deteriorate in 2012,” (...)
BANGKOK: Southern Thailand militants have returned to beheading assassination victims, police confirmed on Sunday to Bikyanews.com.
Authorities said they found the headless body of a rubber tapper in Yala's Than To district.
It was the first (...)
BANGKOK: Thailand's wealthiest are using offshore tax havens to avoid paying taxes in the country, a new report has revealed, citing millions of emails and records having been leaked exposing such practices. Among those using the tax havens are the (...)
BANGKOK: Horsemeat has been revealed to exist in Ikea stores in Thailand, the international retailer said on Thursday.
The Swedish furniture store, which also runs a Swedish food market and restaurant at its Bang Na outlet said the horsemeat turned (...)
SHANGHAI: A leading Chinese sociologist has introduced a proposal to the government that calls for marriage equality. It is the same proposal that she has lodged with the government since 2003 and she hopes that as China is changing, more will (...)
SHANGHAI: It's cold evening as the two sit huddled underneath a large blanket as they sip their tea and slurp their noodles. The heater has stopped working and they are just looking for some warmth before heading home to their small studio. There (...)
BANGKOK: When Sally* and *Monica arrived at a clinic in Thailand last month, they were admittedly apprehensive. They were there for one purpose: to beautify their vaginas. While they said the idea was preposterous to them only a few months before, (...)
BANGKOK: Philippines activists are voicing concern over the recent establishment of a transition committee tasked with drafting the country's new Basic Law. They tell Bikyanews.com that there is a growing fear that numerous groups in the country (...)
BANGKOK: A group of sex workers and activists are pressing for better access to healthcare and reforms across the Asia-Pacific region with the ultimate goal of decriminalizing sex work in the region.
United Nations officials say that globally sex (...)
BANGKOK: The three girls, recent college drop-outs, watch television for hours, their eyes blood shot, their clothes non-existent. They sit nude in their small one bedroom flat, needles, powder and drugs all strewn together with bowls of aging food (...)
BANGKOK: Just outside Thailand's capital, on a small beach, two girls sit in soaking in the sun, their tiny bikinis leaving little to the imagination. Male passersby top and attempt to chat them up, but they won't get anywhere with this couple.
The (...)
BANGKOK: The two sit hand-in hand on the beach, their small bikinis getting onlookers, both male and female, as the couple relaxes and soaks in the hot sun a few hours south of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
Here, the two 20-year-old lesbians live in (...)
BANGKOK: Thailand's transsexual population is angry at a recent advertisement published by Swedish home furniture store IKEA. The ad features a woman talking in a deep male tone and has led to many in the country believing it is a mockery of the (...)