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    Rohingya Refugees Test International Resolve After Mass Exodus, Limbo

    More than eight years after over 750,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar for sprawling camps in Bangladesh, the crisis remains unresolved.
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    Animals and wildlife

    Human Rabies Deaths in Nepal Have Steadily Declined Over the Years

    In 2008, Nepal recorded 97 deaths; since then, annual fatalities have ranged between 6 and 32. But experts caution that the real numbers, especially in remote areas with limited surveillance, are likely higher.
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    Bio-diversity

    Guardians of the Coast: How a Sri Lankan Community Rescued Its Wetlands

    At the heart of the campaign were the fishermen and residents of the Negombo lagoon region – people for whom the wetland is more than land or water; it’s the lifeblood of their daily existence.
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    Animals and wildlife

    Elephant Deaths Spiral as Sri Lanka Battles Poaching Threat

    The crisis is not only ecological but cultural, symbolizing the collapse of protection strategies and the fragility of coexistence in a land where these pachyderms once roamed freely.
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    Features

    From Kilns to Fields: How Nepal’s Brick Workers Are Recrafting Lives

    Nepal’s brick industry – valued at several million dollars and employing approximately 300,000 workers – thrives during its limited work season.
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    Air

    Faster Global Warming Linked to Chinese Aerosol Cuts

    The study, published this month in Nature Communications, Earth and Environment, says East Asian efforts to reduce atmospheric aerosols was likely to have accelerated global surface warming since around 2010.
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    Women and the Elderly Bear the Brunt of Climate Change in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    The situation is especially dire in urban centres like Peshawar, where air quality has plummeted due to traffic emissions, unregulated construction, and deforestation.
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    Afghanistan

    Kabul’s Thirst: The Capital on the Brink of a Water Catastrophe

    Kabul, Afghanistan’s sprawling capital, finds itself on the edge of an unprecedented crisis: according to a recent Mercy Corps report, the city’s underground water reserves could be entirely depleted by 2030.
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    China Sets Ambitious 725 Million Tonne Grain Target by 2030 to Fortify Food Security

    China has placed food security at the centre of its national strategy, setting a binding target to raise annual grain production capacity to 725 million metric tonnes by 2030.
    Bangladesh

    Rivers Swallow Land Five Times the Size of Dhaka in Five Decades

    Gaibandha faces the largest land loss among the Jamuna sites, while Kurigram risks the greatest settlement area.
    Corruption

    Sri Lanka Seeks India’s Backing in War on Indian Ocean Drug Trafficking

    The appeal came during a high-level meeting with visiting Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh on 9 September 2026, the first such visit by an Indian defence minister in 38 years.

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