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 […]

NEED TO KNOW CHINA Imitation and Limitation Is Shenzhen the new Hong Kong? That’s how Chinese leaders want the world to think […]

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR The Freedoms of Choice Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi cast her ballot in advance of […]

NEED TO KNOW GEORGIA Sellouts and Patriots A few weeks before a general election on Oct. 31, political candidates in Georgia received […]

NEED TO KNOW THAILAND The King and Them In May 1992, Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej summoned a military leader who had just […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD The Sick Man The coronavirus pandemic is undermining democracies worldwide. A report from Freedom House recently found that […]

NEED TO KNOW NEW ZEALAND Neverland, Discovered It’s almost like New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is living in a fairytale. Ardern […]

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN The Revolution Muscle Revolution has come to Kyrgyzstan – again. In 2005 and 2010, popular uprisings overthrew authoritarian […]

NEED TO KNOW TAJIKISTAN A Fraying Hold Usually, Tajikistan marks the Sept. 9 anniversary of its declaration of independence from the Soviet […]