BEIRUT—Pope Francis is making the first-ever papal trip to Bahrain this week, sparking calls from the country’s majority Shiite opposition and human rights activists for the pontiff to raise human ...

There is no disputing the fact that in recent years, there has been a rise in girl/teenage pregnancies in the Philippines.

The president, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, whose father in 20 years as a dictatorial president imposed martial law, is ...

It is instructive to look back at the many attempts to improve North-South Korean relations when things seemed not quite so hopeless.

LAST January, the flagship World Development Report of the World Bank Institute of Economic Development was published in distilled format. The condensed form — courtesy of the Korea Development ...