NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA Truth and Consequences President Joe Biden recently phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to say that the US […]

NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG The Consequences of Contretemps Chinese filmmaker Ying Liang, 34, became stranded in Hong Kong in 2011 when […]

NEED TO KNOW TIBET Dharmic Democracy In 1959, nine years after China occupied Tibet, the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans fled to […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Vaccines for Sale Indians were desperately searching for vaccines as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic struck […]

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN Walking Backwards Farahnaz Forotan is an Afghan journalist who was granted an interview with Taliban leaders during peace […]

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR Bullies: 1; Voters: 0 American oil giant Chevron is lobbying Congress hard to stop the US government from […]

NEED TO KNOW NEPAL Messy House Gray smog is cutting off the air of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu amid a rash […]

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN Hedging Bets Kyrgyzstan will hold a referendum on April 11 that will alter the constitution to increase the […]

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 […]