NEED TO KNOW SAMOA Collective Individualism Samoan authorities have opened an investigation into lawmakers who allegedly uttered treasonous remarks during political campaign […]

NEED TO KNOW JAPAN Unfinished Business Japanese officials are storing around 1.25 million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear […]

NEED TO KNOW TURKMENISTAN Of Golden Princes and Golden Dogs Turkmenistan is culling stray dogs and cats, and sometimes pets, too, in […]

NEED TO KNOW AUSTRALIA A Free Press Isn’t Free Australia has picked battles with Facebook and other American tech giants. Some experts […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Lost in Space Last year, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab state to send a probe […]

NEED TO KNOW MICRONESIA & OCEANIA Divided We Teeter The island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing a double whammy: A […]

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN No Exits President Joe Biden has a few months to decide whether to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. […]

NEED TO KNOW NEW ZEALAND Natural Invasions The kakapos are beautiful, fascinating birds. They are the biggest species of parrot, weighing almost […]

NEED TO KNOW LAOS Forward, Comrades Laos’ communist leaders recently elected Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith as their new secretary-general. Described by the […]

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN Vaccination Games Around the world, covid-skepticism has become a thing – leading to millions saying they will shun […]

NEED TO KNOW INDIA Weaponizing Cows When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a National Cow Commission late last year, he aimed to […]

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR The Façade Crumbles Khing Hnin Wai frequently produces videos of herself doing aerobics to electronic dance music near […]

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN Blaming and Shaming In September last year, a Pakistani woman ran out of gas on the highway near […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD All About the Jabs Palau, which consists of hundreds of isolated islands that stretch 500 miles east of […]

NEED TO KNOW JAMMU & KASHMIR Separate But Not Equal Heavy snowfall recently inundated the Kashmir Valley, bringing life to a standstill […]

NEED TO KNOW MARSHALL ISLANDS Isolated Yet Impacted The Marshall Islands are an isolated outpost of American influence in the vast Pacific […]

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN The Fix Is In Kyrgyzstan’s recent political turbulence began after protests erupted in the wake of the parliamentary […]

NEED TO KNOW KAZAKHSTAN Not Sitting Down Kazakhstan didn’t take too kindly to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of […]

NEED TO KNOW PHILIPPINES Badge of Dishonor The Philippines is having its George Floyd moment. An off-duty police officer in the East […]

NEED TO KNOW SOLOMON ISLANDS Of Freedoms and Free-For-Alls Leaders in the Solomon Islands are considering a ban on Facebook in order […]

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN Chaos in the Mountains In the past two months, the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has had three […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Dancing Into Disease China, like the US, Canada and the UK, is slowly rolling out plans to vaccinate […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Choosing the Future Maybe the dominant narrative of the origin of the coronavirus is wrong. As the South […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD The Uninvited President Donald Trump abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade agreement negotiated under President Barack Obama […]