South Asia
World Water Day: One In Four Children Will Live With Water Scarcity By 2040
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a...
Africa Makes Progress In Water Delivery
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to...
Pakistan Passes Landmark Hindu Marriage Bill
The president of mainly Muslim Pakistan has signed into law a bill allowing the Hindu minority to register their...
IS Claims Bangladesh Bombing, Police Kill Militant
The Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bomb attack on a Bangladesh security forces camp,...
Saudi King Cancels Maldives Visit Over Swine Flu Fears
The Saudi king has cancelled a scheduled visit to the politically-troubled atoll nation of the Maldives because of an...
State Dept, Int’l Community Worried By US Budget Cuts
With his department reeling over President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts and the international community worried,...
Man Charged Over Goa Attack
Police have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman in the southern Indian state of Goa. Danielle McLaughlin's...
Nepal Police Demolish Camp For Earthquake Displaced
Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that...
Bangladesh To Fell Building Deemed
Bangladesh's highest court Sunday ordered the demolition of a lakeside building occupied by powerful garment groups, a...
Maldives Opposition Protests Saudi King’s Visit
Maldivian opposition parties protested Friday a planned visit by King Salman following reports that Saudi business...
Maldives Deny Atoll Sale To Saudis After Protests
The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following...
Food Sovereignty Tackles Osei-Owusu On GMOs
Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has said it “totally rejects the false impression” that the chairman of parliament’s...
Bangladesh Arrests Cafe Attackers’ ‘spiritual Leader’
Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the "spiritual leader" of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have...
Top Brands Including H&M, Zara To Boycott Bangladesh Garment Summit
Leading fashion brands including H&M and Zara will boycott a key industry conference in Bangladesh in support of...
Pakistan’s Third Sex Seeks A Reformation
Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair -- but today she is above all the voice of...
The Man Who Turned the Lights On In Energy-Starved Nepal
The continuous whirl of hair dryers is a novel sound at the Blush Beauty Point parlour in Nepal's capital Kathmandu,...
Google Internet Balloon Plan Snagged In Sri Lanka
Google's venture to beam the internet to remote areas of the world via balloon has hit a legal snag in Sri Lanka that...
Global Growth Edges Up To 2.7 % Despite Weak Investment
Global economic growth is forecast to accelerate moderately to 2.7 percent in 2017 after a post-crisis low last year as...
Sri Lanka Protest Over Chinese Investment Turns Ugly
Several people have been injured in southern Sri Lanka during a protest against allowing China to build a port and...