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    Nepal Prime Minister Deuba Acknowledges “A New Variant Of COVID Has Been Detected In Nepal”

    Addressing provincial chief ministers and government functionaries in an online interaction, Prime Minister Deuba spoke of “a new variant of COVID”. Nepal’s prime minister, Sher...
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    Afghanistan

    Red Cross, WFP Seek International Funds For Food As Afghanistan Faces A Grim Winter

    Kabul, 4 December Afghans are facing the worst drought and hunger crisis in living memory. Life-saving relief and supplies must reach people ahead of a...
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    Bhutan

    Bhutan Resumes WTO Accession Talks After 18-Year Pause

    The return to the negotiating table after nearly two decades underscores the particular challenges faced by small, environmentally vulnerable economies.
    Bangladesh

    Normalised Violence: How Bangladesh’s Chars Trap Women in Abuse

    Mainstreaming violence-against-women considerations into every programme – not only those labelled “gender” – is essential.
    Afghanistan

    Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as Aid Cuts Leave Millions Without Food

    The combination of funding cuts, mass returns, climate shocks, high food prices has left millions of Afghans facing preventable hunger and illness.

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    Bhutan Resumes WTO Accession Talks After 18-Year Pause

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    Bangladesh

    Normalised Violence: How Bangladesh’s Chars Trap Women in Abuse

    Mainstreaming violence-against-women considerations into every programme – not only those labelled “gender” – is essential.
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    Asia Pacific

    Education critical to plug Asia’s health workforce gap

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines ordered restrictions on health workers moving abroad, a move that was strongly criticised by health unions in the country.
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: Measles Outbreak Leaves Nine in 10 Families in Debt

    The human cost is measured not only in deaths and hospital beds but in emptied savings accounts and mounting informal debts.
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    The return to the negotiating table after nearly two decades underscores the particular challenges faced by small, environmentally vulnerable economies.
    Accountability

    Only 10,000 of 60,000 NGOs Active in Nepal, Panel Told

    Nepal has an exceptionally large number of registered NGOs and INGOs on paper, but a far smaller number that remain active and implementing work.

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