カテゴリー: South and Central Asia
Brewer’s parent company, Kirin, provides foreign currency to military accused of genocideAustralian craft beer brewer Lion Little World has faced international criticism over a business partnership with the Myanmar military, which is accused of genocid…
Country honours 12 people killed when Bek Air flight crashed shortly after takeoffKazakhstan has observed a national day of mourning for the 12 people killed when an airliner crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Almaty airport.The plane, ope…
That there are so many young people in the demonstrations against Modi’s attempts to ostracise Muslims offers hopeNewspapers have been screaming headlines about India’s countrywide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was recentl…
General assembly’s vote in favour of resolution also calls on Myanmar to urgently combat incitement of hatredThe United Nations general assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and other minor…
Vinita Damodaran lauds the protesters in India rallying to protect the postcolonial constitution, and Laura Phillips criticises the British colonial legacy in CanadaThe protests erupting all over India about the changes to citizenship embodied in the C…
66 injured on plane carrying 100 as emergency services look for survivorsA plane carrying almost 100 people has crashed near Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 and injuring more than 60.Almaty airport said on Friday morning that survivor…
This year world leaders struggled to manage the fallout from the erratic tenant in the White House – as China flexed its imperial muscles. We look back at the events that created the most turbulenceClick here for 2019’s reasons to be cheerful A year of…
From Bangladesh to Britain, blanket exposure to promotional material for unhealthy foods is encouraging children to eat badly, new research claimsNepalese schoolgirl Prasiddhika Shrestha is holding up a video camera at her aunt’s house, filming her cou…
Kadyr Yusupov’s family believes his ‘confession’ that he spied for a foreign government was coerced A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the…
The Garbage Cafe in Ambikapur, India, is helping to tackle the country’s plastic waste problem – and their novel idea is catching onOn bad days, when his employer made some excuse for not paying him his paltry daily wage, Ram Yadav’s main meal used to …
Modi’s Hindu nationalists win 25 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, ending five years of ruleThe Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state election, a setback for the party as it faces huge anti-government protests again…
The Bangladeshi government is making life hard for young people trying to document levels of hardship in the world’s largest refugee settlementFor Azimul Hassan, 19, life before he entered the world’s largest refugee settlement was always busy.He would…
The ancient Silk Road city once had a thriving Jewish population, which has shrunk to around 200On the first night of Hanukah, Benyamin Badalov ascends the platformed bimah in Bukhara’s central synagogue to recite the evening prayer.Among the handful o…
The backlash against the Citizenship Amendment Act shows that Indians will not accept the party’s distorted vision for their countryHuge nationwide protests, involving people of various religions, professions, castes and classes, such as haven’t been s…
Preliminary results point to slim majority for incumbent in presidential pollAfghanistan’s incumbent president, Ashraf Ghani, won a slim majority of votes in September’s election, according to preliminary results, after a poll that plunged the country …