Asia

Veejay Villafranca was born and raised in Manila. He started out in journalism as a staff photographer for a national news magazine. He pursued freelancing in 2006 and worked with several...

Yam Kumari Kandel was raised in Nepal's western region, where she completed her education. She has worked in publishing and for the National News Agency of Nepal. At Global Press Journal, she explores...

Atish Patel is a freelance multimedia journalist based in New Delhi. His work has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the BBC, among others. Before moving to India in 2011, he...

Ankita Rao is an American journalist currently based in India, where she writes about health and gender. Her articles and photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate and...

Sharron Lovell is a visual journalist and educator. She is currently based in Beijing and possesses a misguided love of China's lower tier cities. She is course leader for a Beijing-based, U.K...

Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent, writing for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. He has lived over half the past 35 years in China since...

Trained as a journalist, Shi Lihong initially wrote articles for the English language China Daily. She then studied film at Berkeley where she became interested in observational documentaries of...

Alice Su is the Los Angeles Times’ Beijing bureau chief. She was previously a stringer for the Associated Press in Amman. Su grew up between Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and California, studied at...

Ana P. Santos is an independent journalist who reports on the intersections of gender and sexuality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and labor migration. She has written extensively about...

Kalyanee Mam has always been intrigued and inspired by the story of home. Born in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime, which took the lives of nearly two million people, she and her family were...

Michael Edison Hayden is an American writer based out of Mumbai. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera America, Financial Times, Slate, and The Times of London...