Category: Asia

Women wait for free bread in front of a bakery in Kabul. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thu 27 January 2022: On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres informed the United Nations Security Council that Afghanistan is “hanging on a thread.” He asked countries to authorise all transactions necessary for humanitarian aid to be carried out. He also argued for […]

Mon 24 January 2022: Taliban and Western officials are meeting outside Oslo, Norway, for talks on Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis, which has worsened dramatically since the Taliban retook power last August, 20 years after being toppled in a US-led assault. The closed-door discussions with representatives of the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union […]

Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban acting MFA in led of a delegation has left Kabul for Norway. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 22 January 2022: The European Union announced on Friday that it will re-establish a physical presence in Afghanistan for humanitarian reasons, but that it would not legally recognize the Taliban-led government. It was the first such announcement […]

Sat 22 January 2022: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hospitalized, a spokesman from his office said Saturday.  The 96-year-old is in the cardiac care unit of the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur, a spokesperson who asked not to be named said, without giving further details. Media descended on the hospital as […]

Sat 22 January 2022:  Dozens of Hindu religious leaders and politicians gathered last month for a meeting in Haridwar, a prominent pilgrimage site for Hindus in the northern Uttarakhand state, where multiple speakers called on the community to arm themselves for a genocide against the Muslim minority. “Even if just 100 of us become soldiers and […]

Ko Jimmy(L) and Zeyar Thaw (R)  _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 22 January 2022: A Myanmar military court has sentenced a lawmaker and prominent democracy activist from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) to death. According to the generals, the NLD’s Phyo Zeyar Thaw, who was arrested in November, was sentenced to death for violating […]