Asia

Foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen gives NPR's Scott Simon her assessment of the state of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.

India's all-female task force of community health-care workers won the World Health Organization's Global Health Leaders Awards. But instead of recognition, some want a better salary and benefits.

After the group retook power in the country in 2021, it banned poppy cultivation. Now it's tearing the plants out, field by field. But farmers and workers worry there's no money in other crops.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly follows up with Ha Chuong and Nadav Davidai, a married couple who lives in Shanghai, about what it's like to return to life outside of their apartment.

Pakistan doesn't recognize Israel. After a delegation visited Israel and even met with its president, Pakistani senators were outraged and one visitor got fired.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators delves into gun control. Shanghai residents can leave their homes after two months of lockdowns. And Queen Elizabeth celebrates her record 70 years on the throne.

After more than two months of isolation to avoid the Omicron surge, the 25 million people who live in Shanghai are out of lockdown.

Hundreds of people changed their names, but Taiwan limits how many times citizens can make name changes. Without a change in the law, some are stuck with names like Salmon Dream or Dancing Salmon.

Crushed by COVID-19 lockdowns and hemmed in by stricter political controls, more Chinese citizens are exploring options to leave China altogether.

China's largest city and global financial hub plans to restore mass transit and gradually reopen schools

Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, also known around the world by his stage name Sidhu Moose Wala, was killed Sunday evening while driving his car in Mansa, a district in northern India's Punjab state.

A U.N. official calls for new policies across East Asia to halt the soaring production of methamphetamines.