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Workers wearing protective gear stack up boxes with food over a cart to deliver in a neighborhood during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai, May 7, 2022.

A reporter looks back: Better times in Shanghai

The lockdown contrasts with more freewheeling times in China's biggest city.

Rangers carry a captured Sumatran tiger in Lurah Ingu Village, West Sumatra, Dec 7, 2020. The Indonesian government estimates that around 600 Sumatran tigers are left in the wild.

Only a few thousand tigers survive in Asia in 2022

Unidentified men carry knives and slingshots as they walk past a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state in northern Myanmar, Sept. 7, 2017.

The US has declared a Rohingya genocide. Does it matter?

Left: Ukrainian soldiers and firefighters search in a destroyed building after a bombing attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. Credit: AP. Right: This file handout photo by Chin Twin Chit Thu taken on February 3, 2022 and released on February 5, 2022 shows an aerial photo of burnt buildings in Mingin Township, in Sagaing Division, where more than 105 buildings were destroyed by junta military troops, according to local media.

Shades of Kharkiv: Parallels between the conflicts in Myanmar and Ukraine

2022-03-15

File photo showing Vietnamese activist Doan Khanh Vinh Quang being escorted to the court house in Can Tho province, Vietnam on Sept. 24, 2018. Quang was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his Facebook posts that judges say insulted the ruling Communist Party.

Vietnam’s crackdown target: citizens who can inspire others

2022-03-07

Ukraine supporters living in Taiwan display placards during a protest against Russia's military invasion outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, March 6, 2022.

After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, eyes on Xi Jinping and Taiwan

2022-03-06

A photo posted on social media by ethnic Kachins in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement, expressing support for Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022.

On Ukraine, the world acts; on Myanmar, it waits

2022-03-03

A man wrapped in an Ukrainian national flag watches news on his mobile phone as he sits at Maidan Independence Square in Kyiv as Russia's ground forces invaded Ukraine from several directions, Feb. 24, 2022.

ASEAN response to Ukraine crisis a show of 'diplomatic cowardice'

2022-03-02

Smoke billows from a power and heating plant after it was shelled in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, Feb. 22, 2022.

What Russian aggression in Ukraine means for Southeast Asia

2022-02-23

Analysis: The purchase and abuse of daughters-in-law is a local custom

2022-02-22

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