Uli Schmetzer

The wooden fishing boat that took Vu Chi Co to China is now part of a maritime graveyard in this dilapidated settlement of ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam. This is...

Nations more liberal than China are not necessarily more liberal about slavery. Even government officials combating slavery in other Asian countries are the targets of threats. Col. Panya Charuchareet, Bangkok`s...

All the villagers in Jhikargacha in the Jessore district of Bangladesh knew Hossain Ali had vanished, two months after his marriage, with his wife, Balla, and her younger sister, Pachi....

Often at night on the South China Sea, when the wind lashes his tugboat, Teodoro Mesina hears once again the boys` woeful moans as the master`s cat o`nine tails flick...

Past the floating gardens of Nehru Park and houseboats with names like Noah`s Ark and New Manhattan, a lane meanders to the home of Kashmir`s chief priest, Omar Farook, whose...

The narcotics boom in China and the growth of the Chinese Connection heroin trail across the country have their roots in recent political and sociological changes both in China and...

The future of U.S. bases in the Philippines was linked Saturday to an expensive rescue package for the country`s foundering economy. Despite two years of anti-base rhetoric and nationalist flag-waving,...

In the days when American tourists invaded the Great Wall like locusts, their Chinese guides always prayed the heavens would be kind with the weather and that the local restaurateur...

During the weeks when no U.S. ships anchor at Subic Bay Naval Base across the causeway, the people of this honky-tonk town, notorious as the world`s biggest brothel, hock their...

The compound is surrounded by troops. They shot up the apartments in Building No. 1 in the front of the compound, facing Jianguomenwai Avenue. Those apartments are all inhabited by...