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Just over a year ago Myanmar security forces were wrapping up a massive offensive against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. In a matter of weeks,…
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In the next decade, India may pass China to become the world’s most populous country.But there’s something odd about India’s population. At its last…
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Climate change is already having big effects on southern Asia.Deadly heat waves like one that killed 3,500 people in India and Pakistan in 2015 are…
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For many, witch trials may seem like a relic of early colonial America. But in fact witch-hunting is still a feature of rural life today in many some of…
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Overpopulation has been debated since British economist Thomas Malthus famously warned in 1798 that humans could reproduce far faster than they could…
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Just two years ago, once-isolated Myanmar seemed firmly on a new course. Longtime opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National…
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Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar in recent months amidst a campaign by the South Asian nation's military against the religious…
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Journalists and bloggers in Bangladesh are finding themselves increasingly under fire. Last year, a group that calls itself “Defenders of Islam” published…
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Fifteen months ago, a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh killed more than 100 people and injured at least a further 200. The factory provided…
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Every year the Alfred Friendly Foundation places international journalists in newsrooms across the U.S. The organization aims to impart American…