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‘Middle East Cooperation Needed’ to Combat Dust Storms
After storms swept through Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait in recent weeks, countries are banding together to tackle surge in dust storms. Iran, Iraq and...
Asia Pacific
Reimagining Ageing: Older Persons as Agents of Development
Older persons, especially older women, also make important contributions as caregivers to both children and other older persons. This unpaid care enables younger people...
Accountability
Japan’s Kishida Retreats from New Capitalism
When it came to the foundational principle — that healthy growth and a more equal distribution of income needed each other — Kishida surrendered...
Agri-technology
Leveraging Digital Technologies
Digitalization of rural communities is leading the way to a better future across Asia and the Pacific. But, it must be remembered that the...
Asia Pacific
This is 2022 and Iran is Set to ‘Finger Guillotine’
A sawing contraption will cut off four fingers of the right hands of seven men convicted of burglary in Tehran. But the medieval form...
Air
Dirty Air ‘Cuts South Asia Life Expectancy by Five Years’
Bangladesh emerges as the world’s most polluted country according to the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) released by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute....
Accountability
Inflation Will Be SouthAsia’s Sore Point in FY 2022, says World Bank Global Economic Prospects Report
In the face of global stagflation, growth in SouthAsia is forecast to slow down to 6.8 and 5.8 per cent in 2022 and 2023,...
Asia Pacific
Future Super Cyclones Will Expose Vastly More People To Extreme Flooding in SouthAsia, Say Researchers
Research shows that future super cyclones would expose greater numbers of people in most vulnerable parts of the world to extreme flooding. The study...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
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Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
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