A few young men dress up like Charlie Chaplin to celebrate Chaplin's 125th birthday in Adipur, India on April 16, 2014. (Ashit Desai/Flickr)
"For women in villages, traditional codes of conduct can still trump the laws of the state," says Osborn Elliot Prize finalist Gordon Fairclough of the Wall Street Journal.
"We do not expect the situation for the Rohingya to improve," says an AP journalist who covered some of the most shocking sectarian conflict in Myanmar.
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Professor Chung-in Moon comments on the state and future of Japan-South Korea relations in advance of the Asia Society Policy Institute's related event on June 19.
Villages such as the pictured Gatlang Village are nestled in Nepal's vast mountain ranges and can be seen from the Tamang Heritage Trail on May 19, 2014. (Henrik Ejnefäll/Flickr)
"I doubt anything in my journalism career will match my decade in Asia," the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist said.
The sun shines on the central business district in Hong Kong on May 7, 2014. (november-13/Flickr)
"Water is increasingly becoming a battlefront within Pakistan," says Karachi-based Alizeh Kohari. "It seems we're always confronted with the prospect of a deluge or a desert here."
New York Times journalist Ian Johnson, a finalist for this year's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, discusses the double-edged sword of Chinese urbanization.