NEED TO KNOW Desperate, and Cursed SRI LANKA Schoolteacher Agnes Felician has been protesting lately against the policies of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. […]

NEED TO KNOW Green Fields, Orange Apes INDONESIA Indonesians are talking about their government’s plan to move their capital from the metropolis […]

NEED TO KNOW Push, Pull CENTRAL ASIA A radio talk show host in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan recently posted a […]

NEED TO KNOW Packing Proxies MALDIVES Some in the Maldives want to reduce the influence of India. The same people in the […]

NEED TO KNOW A Wobbly Fence INDIA Most United Nations members rallied to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month. India, […]

NEED TO KNOW Awkward Alliances CHINA/ RUSSIA Chinese President Xi Jinping once described Russian President Vladimir Putin as “my closest foreign colleague […]

NEED TO KNOW Dictatorship 2.0 TURKMENISTAN The 40-year old son of Turkmenistan’s president, Serdar Berdymukhamedov, recently hit the campaign trail. Some wonder […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Handicapped Wins SOUTH KOREA More than 70 percent of South Koreans favor their country deploying nuclear weapons. They […]

NEED TO KNOW All in the Family PHILIPPINES America produced the Adams, Bush, Clinton and other political dynasties. Now leaders in Asia […]

NEED TO KNOW Battlegrounds INDIA With live political rallies banned due to the coronavirus, LED screens are going up throughout India in […]

NEED TO KNOW Chocolate, Beer and Sovereignty TAIWAN Lala Sin has shied away from speaking Mandarin Chinese around her three children. Instead, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Gates of Hell TURKMENISTAN Turkmenistan’s autocratic President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov recently went on state television to demonstrate his awesome […]

NEED TO KNOW Of Chickens and Eggs MYANMAR Aung San Suu Kyi won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her pro-democracy […]

NEED TO KNOW Fed Up, Pushed Down KAZAKHSTAN Officials in Kazakhstan recently announced that, with the help of Russian troops, stability had […]

NEED TO KNOW What’s In a Name CHINA / INDIA Indian leaders recently blasted Chinese officials for moves that appear to ramp […]

NEED TO KNOW Mission Impossible NORTH KOREA North Koreans were barred from laughing, drinking alcohol or enjoying leisure activities from Dec. 17-28. […]

NEED TO KNOW Bloody Passions PAKISTAN Priyantha Kumara was a Christian and Sri Lankan citizen who managed a Rajco Industries factory in […]

NEED TO KNOW After the Fall AFGHANISTAN Two veteran foreign correspondents from the Washington Post recently journeyed along the 300-mile highway from […]

NEED TO KNOW Olympic-sized Snubs CHINA When President Jimmy Carter ordered an American boycott of the 1980 winter Olympics in Moscow, he […]

NEED TO KNOW Pig in the Poke HONG KONG A wild boar infestation in Hong Kong provided fodder for a political cartoonist […]

NEED TO KNOW King of the Sinking Mountain TURKEY President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s nearly 20 years’ long quest to dominate Turkish politics – […]

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NEED TO KNOW Red Halo CHINA If communists practiced canonization, Chinese President Xi Jinping would be a candidate for sainthood. The honchos […]

NEED TO KNOW When Heroes Fall GEORGIA The European Court of Human Rights recently demanded that the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia safeguard […]