NEED TO KNOW WORLD The Desperate Ones The specter of despair appears to be haunting the world’s democracies. Electorates and politicians are […]

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR About Face, About Grace Ye Thein went to Rakhine state in western Myanmar around Christmas to show support […]

NEED TO KNOW CHINA & UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Champagne Still On Ice The US-China trade war appears to be over. Long […]

NEED TO KNOW INDIA Made In India Indian opposition politician Rahul Gandhi is facing sedition charges for a small rhyme that refers […]

NEED TO KNOW CHINA Cultural Revolution Redux An Afghan-American teenage girl in New Jersey thought of a novel way to spread the […]

NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG A Landslide for Democracy Pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong won nearly 90 percent of the seats in […]

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA & CHINA Friends, but not Besties An alliance between China and Russia has long worried American strategists. But […]

NEED TO KNOW MARSHALL ISLANDS A Tsunami of Disenfranchisement In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs, conducted […]

NEED TO KNOW SRI LANKA The Politics of Greed Gotabaya Rajapaksa helped crush a nearly 30-year-long insurgency in Sri Lanka in 2009 […]

NEED TO KNOW BOUGAINVILLE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Where Bombs and Bullets Could Not Go The civil war between Papua New Guinea’s central […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Back to the Future Lately it’s been feeling a lot like 1968. Fifty-one years ago, Americans took to […]

NEED TO KNOW THAILAND The Price of Righteousness Fewer tourists these days are reserving hotel rooms, enjoying the nightlife, riding elephants and […]

NEED TO KNOW INDONESIA Reformers 0, Radicals 1 Indonesia’s security minister was stabbed recently in an attack that authorities blamed on Islamic […]

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN & INDIA Coming Last Most of the focus on Kashmir lately spotlights India’s crackdown in the disputed region […]

NEED TO KNOW JAPAN The Half-Life of Fear International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach wants to reassure athletes that radiation won’t taint their […]

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN We the People A Taliban suicide bomber recently killed at least 26 people at a presidential campaign rally […]

NEED TO KNOW BANGLADESH Dropped Calls Around one million Rohingya refugees live in camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. They fled their […]

NEED TO KNOW INDIA Papers, Please Imagine being declared a foreigner in the country of your birth. That’s what happened to seven-year-old […]

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN The Forever War Services in memory of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US might have […]

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN Protecting the Innocents Sakina Bibi innocently believed her marriage was an excuse to dress up and wear jewelry. […]

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN Buckle Up In early August, when security forces descended on the home of Almazbek Atambayev to detain him […]

NEED TO KNOW LAOS Moving On Laos is straggling into the 21st century. But it has demons from the distant and not-so-distant […]

NEED TO KNOW JAPAN Unforgiving Machinery A trade war is threatening the peace and prosperity of Asia. This time, however, neither China […]

Good morning, today is Monday August 12th, 2019, and this is your “World In 2 Minutes” from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW KASHMIR […]