Hopes were high for Myanmar but is the honeymoon over?
Last week, Myanmar kicked MSF out of Rakhine state, gave the green light to controversial new laws and ignored critical reports on the census and treatment of Rohingyas. Is the country’s reform honeymoon over?
Bullied, ridiculed, ignored, Asia transgenders step up fight for rights
Discrimination prevents transgender people from accessing healthcare, education and employment, activists say, while report finds high levels of bullying against LGBT students in Thailand
Cash-flush Buddhist org comes to rescue in storm-hit Philippines but breaks NGO rules
In the three months after Haiyan, the Tzu Chi Foundation provided $27 million in aid, violating some NGO guidelines, disquieting aid circles and becoming a saviour for survivors
Technology proves its worth in Haiyan response
The Philippines’ infrastructure and Filipinos’ familiarity with technology is allowing aid agencies to use bar codes for identification, phones for cashless transfers and tablets for monitoring aid effectiveness
The din of misogyny at Bangkok protests
Educated and otherwise respected members of Thai society rear their sexist heads - condoning and even calling for sexual violence to bring down Thailand’s first female PM
A New Year's resolution for Typhoon Haiyan survivors
As the hard slog of rebuilding the central Philippines after Super Storm Haiyan begins in the new year, this correspondent is hoping the recovery will be well-funded and managed
A year on, unanswered questions over Lao activist’s disappearance
Sombath Somphone, award-winning activist working on community development, vanished last December after being held at a police post. CCTV footage shows him being stopped, but the authorities remain silent, despite international pressure
How much would it cost to immunise all children in Myanmar in 2014?
UNICEF shows how Myanmar’s immense reserves of gas, oil, gemstones and timber - which critics say have been used to enrich leaders and cronies - could be used to benefit the country’s children
Is the private sector response to Haiyan a foretaste of things to come?
As the traditional aid funding pie gets smaller and aid agencies wring their hands over how to respond to weather- and conflict-related disasters, the private sector is jumping in to fill some of the gaps
Tacloban devastated, but not cowed, by super storm
Typhoon Haiyan, with sustained winds reaching 235 km per hour, may have damaged Tacloban’s infrastructure beyond recognition, but it strengthened the people’s will