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May 21, 2021

Precious and Few

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Precious and Few People around the world are stressing out over rare earth metals. As Britannica.com explained, rare earth metals are 17 similar heavy metals that are vital to modern technology, from cars to computers to mobile devices to MRI imaging. Their utility has made...

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May 18, 2021

A Rubber Democracy

NEED TO KNOW VIETNAM [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3f17a3ec-f2fd-42ee-b8c2-dd23d117cb41.png"] A Rubber Democracy Vietnam and Laos fought against the United States together during the Vietnam War. Laos was essential to the construction of the Ho Chi Minh trail that helped the North Vietnamese forces to ultimately prevail. But Vietnam has been investing heavily in...

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May 17, 2021

By the Numbers

NEED TO KNOW AUSTRALIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/81d62805-bef8-41fd-9c0c-ed93ea461226.png"] By the Numbers Caroline Andersen has been fighting for five years to learn why her son, Wayne Fella Morrison, died in police custody in an Australian hospital. A state ombudsman found that the prisons department failed in its handling and transporting of Morrison –...

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May 13, 2021

Truth and Consequences

NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/291ba8a2-3105-41e3-a793-e28cc6a9282e.png"] Truth and Consequences President Joe Biden recently phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to say that the US was going to recognize the Ottoman Empire’s genocidal campaign against Armenians in 1915. The conversation was tense, reported CNN. Erdoğan often paints Turkey as the heir to...

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May 10, 2021

The Consequences of Contretemps

NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ed89ce6f-df7c-493b-809a-681d51fa4904.png"] The Consequences of Contretemps Chinese filmmaker Ying Liang, 34, became stranded in Hong Kong in 2011 when Beijing officials banned him from returning to the mainland for making a film about the Chinese criminal justice system. Now he’s watching as the same officials...

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May 04, 2021

Dharmic Democracy

NEED TO KNOW TIBET [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ee543dae-dc0e-497c-b1b2-51199c631b8c.png"] Dharmic Democracy In 1959, nine years after China occupied Tibet, the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans fled to the town of Dharamshala in India, where they established a government in exile that is now called the Central Tibetan Administration. And a decade ago, the...

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May 03, 2021

Vaccines for Sale

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Vaccines for Sale Indians were desperately searching for vaccines as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic struck the world’s largest democracy and second-most populous country. Over the weekend, officials said the  Covid-19’s death toll in India topped 400,000 even as most researchers believe...

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April 30, 2021

Walking Backwards

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2beac6fe-a680-4765-a2ff-d329629a897c.png"] Walking Backwards Farahnaz Forotan is an Afghan journalist who was granted an interview with Taliban leaders during peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar last year. “The experience reinforced my sense that postwar Afghanistan, dominated by the Taliban, was bound to be a bleak place for...

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April 29, 2021

Bullies: 1; Voters: 0

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9ef34308-9cd1-4a8e-a2b3-e7a7ab6846ed.png"] Bullies: 1; Voters: 0 American oil giant Chevron is lobbying Congress hard to stop the US government from slapping new sanctions on Myanmar after United Nations officials said the southeast Asian country “is now effectively controlled by a murderous criminal enterprise,” the New...

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April 27, 2021

Messy House

NEED TO KNOW NEPAL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a519ab91-7b87-4ef0-a6df-573c03bc0303.png"] Messy House Gray smog is cutting off the air of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu amid a rash of wildfires. The Himalayan nation has counted more than 2,000 forest fires since November 2020, with a quarter of those spewing dust, smoke and ash...

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April 07, 2021

Hedging Bets

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/766aa12d-4910-4bb3-a204-adba72f724f9.png"] Hedging Bets Kyrgyzstan will hold a referendum on April 11 that will alter the constitution to increase the president’s powers. The changes would allow the Central Asian country’s head of state to run for a second term – currently, Kyrgyz presidents are limited to...

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April 06, 2021

Collective Individualism

NEED TO KNOW SAMOA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/4f48e1fa-b240-42b5-9980-774c0bb8a9c6.png"] Collective Individualism Samoan authorities have opened an investigation into lawmakers who allegedly uttered treasonous remarks during political campaign speeches in the run-up to parliamentary elections on April 9. Former Deputy Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is at the center of the investigation, reported Radio...

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March 26, 2021

Unfinished Business

NEED TO KNOW JAPAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ab764327-df98-4918-badd-17c2c79d5685.png"] Unfinished Business Japanese officials are storing around 1.25 million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in more than 1,000 big metal tanks near the ocean. They want to slowly release the water into the sea, the Washington Post reported. The...

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March 24, 2021

Of Golden Princes and Golden Dogs

NEED TO KNOW TURKMENISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b168b666-d25a-47b3-9e9e-747b1b8c92c8.png"] Of Golden Princes and Golden Dogs Turkmenistan is culling stray dogs and cats, and sometimes pets, too, in a campaign to clean up the streets of the capital, Ashgabat. Even so, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, 63, declared that the last Sunday in April would from...

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March 04, 2021

A Free Press Isn’t Free

NEED TO KNOW AUSTRALIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/81d62805-bef8-41fd-9c0c-ed93ea461226.png"] A Free Press Isn't Free Australia has picked battles with Facebook and other American tech giants. Some experts think the country Down Under lost. The fighting is not over yet, however. Recently Facebook agreed to restore news links on Facebook feeds in Australia. That...

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March 01, 2021

Lost in Space

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Lost in Space Last year, the United Arab Emirates became the first Arab state to send a probe to Mars. It was called Hope, wrote National Geographic. The US and China also sent rovers to the Red Planet, taking advantage of the optimum alignment...

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February 24, 2021

Divided We Teeter

NEED TO KNOW MICRONESIA & OCEANIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0d8889f6-c1a7-41d1-93b5-609f448c9fbb.png"] Divided We Teeter The island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing a double whammy: A short-term economic threat from a drop-off in tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic and a medium-term existential threat from rising seas and increasingly violent storms...

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February 22, 2021

No Exits

NEED TO KNOW AFGHANISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2beac6fe-a680-4765-a2ff-d329629a897c.png"] No Exits President Joe Biden has a few months to decide whether to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. His two predecessors pledged to pull out of the Central Asian country where al Qaeda terrorists plotted the Sept. 11 attacks, prompting an American invasion...

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February 18, 2021

Natural Invasions

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NEED TO KNOW NEW ZEALAND [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/35e498e9-3807-40bd-bf6c-8c9506c3b2cf.png"] Natural Invasions The kakapos are beautiful, fascinating birds. They are the biggest species of parrot, weighing almost nine pounds, according to the Natural History Museum at Tring. They can live for 90 years. Most interestingly, they do not fly, behaving more like badgers...

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February 17, 2021

Forward, Comrades

NEED TO KNOW LAOS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2c88ac81-3523-4a3b-b94d-88479d0a30a0.png"] Forward, Comrades Laos’ communist leaders recently elected Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith as their new secretary-general. Described by the Bangkok Post as a “veteran of the old guard of the party” that seized power from a Western-backed government in 1975, the 75-year-old needs to...

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