NEED TO KNOW The Trains To Nowhere LAOS When Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt in May, as the BBC reported, the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Widening Sinkhole SRI LANKA Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was once a war hero, known for crushing the […]

NEED TO KNOW Crimes, Public and Domestic PAPUA NEW GUINEA Police in Papua New Guinea recently detained the son of the country’s […]

NEED TO KNOW The To-Do List JAPAN On Friday, a gunman murdered former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, a towering figure in […]

NEED TO KNOW The New Opium INDIA Does India have a problem with Muslims? Many say yes, after a recent political firestorm […]

NEED TO KNOW Crackdown, Meet Backlash MYANMAR The military junta that controls Myanmar recently put deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi […]

NEED TO KNOW Drawing in Pencil KASHMIR Three years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unilaterally abolished the limited autonomy that India’s […]

NEED TO KNOW Going, Going, Gone KAZAKHSTAN Kazakhs overwhelmingly voted in favor of decentralizing government, reducing the power of the president, rescinding […]

NEED TO KNOW The War on Grain INDIA India and other nations are banning exports of wheat as the price of the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Jig is Up NORTH KOREA For more than two years, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un insisted that […]

NEED TO KNOW The New Guard AUSTRALIA Australia is experiencing its most raucous federal elections in years as outsiders seemed poised to […]

NEED TO KNOW Home Alone CHINA A 13-year-old Chinese boy was home alone for 66 days in Kunshan in eastern China while […]

NEED TO KNOW It Runs in the Family PHILIPPINES Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, a senator in the Philippines who is now running […]

NEED TO KNOW Law & Order HONG KONG Gangsters beat up and robbed John Lee Ka-chiu when he was a boy growing […]

NEED TO KNOW A Troubled Land AFGHANISTAN At least nine people died and 13 were injured in Afghanistan recently when bomb blasts […]

NEED TO KNOW The Comeback Kid PAKISTAN Tens of thousands of Pakistanis attended a recent rally in support of former Prime Minister […]

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 […]