In a country that prizes physical perfection, Korean Pastor Lee Jong-rak, his eyes opened after caring for his own disabled son, has been taking in unwanted infants, who if not for the drop box in the front of his building would be left in the street. To Pastor Lee Jong-rak, babies with Down syndrome or cerebral palsy are all perfect and they have found a home here.
Taiwan's new president, an attorney with two cats who enjoys a nightly glass of wine, joins a small group of about two-dozen world leaders who are women.
The Thai Life Insurance company made a short film with a powerful message that kindness can lead to GREAT things. It is called Unsung Hero.
A court decision has greatly expanded women's rights in India, allowing them to make family business, property, and inheritance decisions.
Since its inception in 1999, the Hole-in-the-Wall project has grown from a single computer at Kalkaji, New Delhi to more than a hundred computers in impoverished villages across India.
For the first time in more than half a century, trains crossed from South to North Korea on Thursday through a sunny opening in Cold War politics, and launched by a "celebration with fireworks, bands, balloons and hundreds of people waving the 'unification' flag".
Ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter and three other former leaders arrived in Beijing on Sunday en route to North Korea to discuss the revival of nuclear disarmament talks and the nation's chronic food shortages.
The presidents of South Korea and China agreed Monday to work together to achieve peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, in their first summit since Kim Jong Il's death opened the chance for major changes in North Korea. China's Hu Jintao said he is willing to make 'unremitting efforts' to safeguard peace and stability.
The United States said Wednesday North Korea has agreed to suspend nuclear activities and accept a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests, in a breakthrough in negotiations with the secretive communist nation. In a key concession, North Korea said it had agreed to allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to verify and monitor a moratorium on uranium enrichment activities.
Seven friends in Malaysia who are not formally organized in any way have managed to collect more than 200 tons of donations for the flood victims in Terengganu, Kelantan and Pahang, receiving overwhelming support, even from a guy with a helicopter to transport the goods.
The hunt was on today for a penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from a Tokyo zoo. Echoing the hit animated movie Madagascar, the penguin fled over a wall that was more than twice his height, and later was seen bathing in the mouth of a nearby river.
Indonesian electricity entrepreneur, Tri Mumpuni Iskandar - IBEKA photoAn Indonesian woman has developed micro-hydro projects that have already delivered electricity – and all that comes with it – to half a million Indonesians. The charismatic director wants to get power to the other 90 million Indonesians who are still without it.
Young Indonesians are breathing new life into their polluted concrete capital city with little more than buckets of soil and seeds. A group of mostly young professionals are converting vacant patches of land - once eyesores -- between Jakarta's skyscrapers into lush green vegetable gardens.
A child in the township of North Okkalapa learns how to drink water that has just been made safe by dissolving a Procter and Gamble purifying packet and stirring.
In an Afghan capital scarred by years of war, a young Afghan woman has bet $1 million that her countrymen could use a little fun. She started the country's first bowling alley and it has become a symbol of hope.
The government of Japan has pledged $17 million dollars to Afghanistan to provide more people with clean drinking water. Small dams will also be built for creating electricity and water canals to boost agriculture.
The photographer behind "Humans of New York" wanted to raise $100,000 to help people trapped in "bonded labor" in Pakistan. His fans gave him $2mil instead.
The little boy who had to study beneath a streetlight has a new scholarship and enough money to pay education bills for 13 years until he graduates college.
A colorful, frog-themed, portable plastic sink recently introduced in sanitation-challenged Cambodia aims to get kids into the habit of washing up.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head when she was 14 by the Taliban for advocating for education rights for girls, has won the top EU prize for human rights, along with$67,000. Now 16 and fully recovered after hospitalization in the UK, Malala is also favored to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
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