Burma’s Media Speaks Out
Greater tolerance for free speech is among the most tangible signs of the Southeast Asian country’s dramatic reform. Since a power handover last year from a military dictatorship to a quasi-civilian government, Burma’s new regime has surprised people in and outside the country by giving substance to the structural change: hundreds of political prisoners were...
The Ghosts of Nepal’s Disappeared
A decade-long civil war claimed thousands of lives. More than four years after it ended, though, official silence means some families can’t move on.