LEMBAR, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited her away to ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aida Kasymalieva, Kyrgyzstan's youngest female member of parliament, was stunned when her male colleagues walked out as she spoke at a session on ...

Despite public awareness campaigns and strict laws against the spread of misinformation, fake videos continue to circulate on social media. The latest involves a short clip claiming a landlord’s son ...

In Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, two countries in central Asia between Russia and China, there is a so-called tradition of bride kidnapping. Young women are abducted, often in broad daylight, and taken ...

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