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    Finance and Economy

    Global Growth Faces Threat from Inflation, IMF Reports

    The IMF revised its growth forecasts upwards for emerging market and developing economies, driven primarily by robust economic activity in Asia, particularly in China...
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    Global Governance

    UN Secretary-General Urges Urgent Action on Sustainable Development Goals Amidst Global Challenges

    Addressing the critical issue of finance, Guterres acknowledged the widening SDG financing gap and destabilizing financial conditions in many developing countries. At Monday’s ministerial segment...
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    Global Governance

    HLPF 2024: Protecting Civic Space Critical for SDGs Success

    Where civic space isn’t open, communities have significantly restricted and limited agency to pursue progress – the kind the SDGs envisage. People who expose...
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    Asia Pacific

    Adding Life to Years – Demographic Change in Asia and the Pacific

    The size of the world’s population in 2100 is now expected to be six per cent lower—or 700 million fewer—than anticipated a decade ago....
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    Afghanistan

    Pakistan Extends 1.4 Million Afghan Refugees’ Stay, UNHCR Applauds Move

    UNHCR acknowledged that Pakistan's decision marks a significant step in ensuring humanitarian assistance and protection for Afghan refugees amid regional challenges and geopolitical complexities. In...
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    Features

    Time Running Short as 2030 Deadline Looms for UN Blueprint for a Fairer Future

    The 2023 SDG Summit marked the mid-way point of the Goals, and underscored the fact that most of them are way off-track. At this...
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    Corporate governance

    Rights Expert Urges Banks to Stop Financing Myanmar Junta Weapons Trade

    Foreign banks are allegedly helping Myanmar’s military junta acquire weapons and military supplies, facilitating a “campaign of violence and brutality” as the civil war there grinds...
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    Global Governance

    Worse Than Genocide: Killing Truth

    Today the decency and moral outrage of millions of US youth is being slandered by ranting propagandists like MS-NBC’s Joe Scarborough, and of course...
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    Anwar to Discuss Petronas Oil Exploration in Maldives Amid Deepening Ties

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    A major new assessment of the Indian Himalayas warns that the region is approaching a critical tipping point.
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    The Midwifery Gap in Asia-Pacific: India at the Heart of a Silent Crisis

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    Global Governance

    Bangladesh: Clock Ticking on Ganges Water Treaty as 2026 Deadline Looms

    Without renewed cooperation grounded in updated science, transparent data and mutual restraint, the Ganges risks becoming a source of friction rather than a shared lifeline. 
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