Every summer, the 59-year-old Chinese blogger Zhang Shihe rides his bicycle thousands of miles to the plateaus, deserts and hinterlands of North Central China. In this Op-Doc video, we meet Mr. Zhang, known to ... Read more
JAKARTA — Karina is an atheist, but her friends jokingly call her “the prophet.” That is because she is helping nurture a community for unbelievers in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, where ... Read more
Russian authorities on Thursday announced yet another criminal case against the political opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, accusing him and his brother, Oleg, of defrauding business associates of at least ... Read more
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh — The police in Bangladesh arrested the acting editor of a pro-opposition newspaper on Thursday amid strikes by opposition forces that have frozen travel in much of the country and ... Read more
Tumblr, the popular social blogging site, said Tuesday night that it would shut Storyboard, the multimedia news blog that it had created to report on its own community and that it had started only last May. ... Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Hundreds of thousands of members of a hard-line Muslim group rallied here in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday to demand that the authorities enact anti-blasphemy laws to punish ... Read more
MOSCOW — A Ukrainian blogger and journalist captured by a Syrian rebel group some five months ago announced that she had escaped her captors on Monday but offered little detail, telling a Russian radio ... Read more
It is an indelible image of the financial crisis: a bird’s-eye view of the backyards of foreclosed houses, their in-ground pools festering with algae and mosquitoes. In Northern Virginia, Marcus Sheridan ... Read more
THE hapless, bumbling father is a stock character in product marketing. He makes breakfast for dinner and is incapable of handling, or sometimes even noticing, a soggy diaper. He tries desperately to hide the ... Read more
BEIJING — Flush with cash and eager to see the world, millions of middle-class Chinese spent the 10-day Lunar New Year holiday that ended on Monday in places like Paris, Bangkok and New York. Last ... Read more