Patrick Winn

America’s closets are filled with blouses and jeans stitched by poor women hunched over sewing machines in tropical countries. And soon, as American and European sanctions melt away, Myanmar will join the list. But can this troubled nation avoid Bangladesh-style factory horrors?

Seen as an emerging threat in the US, 'Kratom' could wean addicts off meth, Thailand’s justice minister argues.

Echoes of Imelda’s shoes in fury over lavish life of embezzlement suspect’s daughter, who documents glitzy shopping sprees and celebrity encounters via social media.

Reviled military rulers. A citizenry cowed in fear. Economies strangled by American sanctions. Just a few years ago, North Korea and Myanmar had much in common.

If police can't be trusted to keep Indonesia "pure" during the holy month of Ramadan, the hardline Islamic Defenders Front says they'll take matters into their own hands.

Catholic clerics have turned to their last legal resort to stop the Philippines' reproductive health law making contraception more widely available.

Obama administration urges crackdown on forced labor that supplies seafood to Americans.

No dinner, no sneakers, no beer and no sex. An unthinkable sacrifice to the 21st century people, perhaps, but Buddhist monks must forsake them all.

A remote village has rallied to an 18-year-old girl's defense after she beheaded her father, who she accused of raping her repeatedly, according to a report in Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier newspaper.

There are few trades that can match dog smuggling’s visceral ugliness.

Bangkok’s allure — a swirl of intoxicating cuisine, cheap shopping, glittering temples and raucous nightlife —is potent enough to overpower its drawbacks.

Experience a tiny “Wal Mart” and a “KFC” that serves fries with chopsticks.

As Aung San Suu Kyi arrived to mediate the mine controversy, police fired phosphorus grenades at monks, illustrating the Nobel Laureate’s powerlessness.

Suu Kyi spokesman says, “There is no Rohingya.”

Profits and poverty collide on an apocalyptic landscape left behind by a military-owned mine.