The Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday 18th January that Ma Jiantang, director of China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), called for the country's one-child policy to be changed because of the nation's shrinking pool of workers. According to the NBS, the working-age population in China decreased by 3.45 million between 2011 and 2012. In October 2011, the China Development Research Foundation, a think-tank affiliated with the Chinese government, also…

A few weeks ago, India erupted in anger as a 23-year-old female student died from injuries sustained after she was gang raped in New Delhi. The case shocked India and sparked a debate about the treatment of women. Following the incident, news reports around the world highlighted the many reasons why women face sexual harassment in Indian society. They talked about the patriarchal nature of the society, the outrageous comments…

Event: The highly publicized long march for democracy, that paralyzed Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, from 14 January 2013, was the basis for a discussion about the future for Pakistan. With the five years of the previous government over in March 2013, political parties that are seeking to participate within elections became active in making statements supporting the existing system, as did the rulers who endorsed that democracy must prevail at all…

On 16 December a 23-year-old paramedic student was raped on a moving bus in Delhi, by six heavily drunk men who brutalized and tortured the victim for about an hour, and then threw her out from the moving bus. After struggling for her life in a Singapore hospital for many days, she succumbed to her injuries and died. The incident has triggered a tsunami of protests not just in the…