Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani novelists recently hosted by Asia Society are finalists for this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
A professional rider reins in his horse in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan on October 29, 2012. (Kerri-Jo/Flickr)
A map of China in new Chinese passports includes disputed territories — Kashmir, and islands in the South China Sea — and upsets Asian neighbors.
New documentary depicts the women of Bangladesh's Banishanta Island as they navigate their lives in the face of climate change.
"You can judge the maturity of a society by the amount of satire it can endure," says top editorial cartoonist.
A little girl looks at the camera from behind a brick wall in Teknaf, Bangladesh on November 13, 2012. (No_Direction_Home/Flickr)