Merrill Goozner

Vincent Wijaya, a 40-something Indonesia yuppie, has it all: The gold-and-silver Mercedes Benz, the Rolex, the cellular phone. Wijaya also has labor troubles at P.T. Juta Jelita Cold Storage, the...

Five years after the violent suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, abusive working conditions have spawned a new human rights movement in East Asia. This time, though, idealistic students...

Nike's experience in Indonesia, where it makes nearly a third of its running shoes, shows that policing subcontractors doesn't always protect workers from the worst abuses. The firm, which owns...

Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System By James Fallows Pantheon Books, 453 pages, $25 The timing couldn't be worse for the...

Former President Jimmy Carter returned from North Korea on Saturday with pledges from the Pyongyang regime that it would temporarily freeze its suspected nuclear weapons program in exchange for high-level...

Jimmy Carter's visit to North Korea turned into a diplomatic fiasco that angered and embarrassed the Clinton administration Friday, just hours after the former president won praise for helping defuse...

Nintendo's hope of recapturing its fading glory in the video-game industry rests on the new games it wants to bring out with its faster, movielike Project Reality machine. Much of...

With D-Day ceremonies over, President Clinton returns Friday to the Oval Office and the somber specter of North Korea's clandestine nuclear weapons program. North Korea lashed out Thursday with new...

Brandishing the new-found power that comes from having more than 50 percent of the world's economic output, President Clinton and Asian-Pacific leaders ganged up Saturday on Europe to pressure it...

The struggle by activists to stop construction of a dam on the Saru River has become a rallying cry for Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu (pronounced AY-new), whom the government...