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February 15, 2021

Vaccination Games

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/eaf17bc7-6468-493e-bfe1-86954ffb120a.png"] Vaccination Games Around the world, covid-skepticism has become a thing – leading to millions saying they will shun the vaccine. In Pakistan that stance has a special twist. Many Pakistanis are skeptical of vaccinations because of a fake inoculation program that the CIA used to...

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February 10, 2021

Weaponizing Cows

NEED TO KNOW INDIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1ac703d1-8192-40be-95ea-427a8f7ed9ee.png"] Weaponizing Cows When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a National Cow Commission late last year, he aimed to educate his constituents and protect the animals Hindus view as sacred, News 18 India explained. Then Modi announced that the commission would hold a new nationwide...

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February 04, 2021

The Façade Crumbles

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9ef34308-9cd1-4a8e-a2b3-e7a7ab6846ed.png"] The Façade Crumbles Khing Hnin Wai frequently produces videos of herself doing aerobics to electronic dance music near the road to the parliament building in Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar. Her backdrop rarely provides much drama. But on Monday, the Los Angeles Times...

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January 26, 2021

Blaming and Shaming

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/eaf17bc7-6468-493e-bfe1-86954ffb120a.png"] Blaming and Shaming In September last year, a Pakistani woman ran out of gas on the highway near the eastern city of Lahore. A group of men stopped. Rather than helping her, they raped her in front of her two children. After learning...

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January 25, 2021

All About the Jabs

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] All About the Jabs Palau, which consists of hundreds of isolated islands that stretch 500 miles east of the Philippines, is slated to soon vaccinate all of its 18,000 citizens with the Covid-19 vaccine. The Pacific country never recorded a single case of the...

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January 15, 2021

Separate But Not Equal

NEED TO KNOW JAMMU & KASHMIR [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/90dd5b26-68ab-4da8-9ee5-e4e856464e0d.png"] Separate But Not Equal Heavy snowfall recently inundated the Kashmir Valley, bringing life to a standstill as residents of the politically charged region between India and Pakistan dug themselves out, the Hindu reported. Roads in and out of the region were...

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January 11, 2021

Isolated Yet Impacted

NEED TO KNOW MARSHALL ISLANDS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9f508d01-33bf-4d23-9d94-4e9368a01a70.png"] Isolated Yet Impacted The Marshall Islands are an isolated outpost of American influence in the vast Pacific Ocean. Ghost ships and the flotsam and jetsam of global trade ply sea lanes around the country, a group of 29 coral atolls spread across more...

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January 07, 2021

The Fix Is In

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/766aa12d-4910-4bb3-a204-adba72f724f9.png"] The Fix Is In Kyrgyzstan’s recent political turbulence began after protests erupted in the wake of the parliamentary election in early October. Angry over how election officials blocked opposition political parties from running for office, opposition supporters stormed government buildings, compelling then-President Sooronbai Jeenbekov to...

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January 05, 2021

Not Sitting Down

NEED TO KNOW KAZAKHSTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d52e63cf-06bb-47d0-b573-377bff5ae37c.png"] Not Sitting Down Kazakhstan didn’t take too kindly to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." The country’s government took out a newspaper ad to improve its public image, the Washington Post reported....

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December 31, 2020

Badge of Dishonor

NEED TO KNOW PHILIPPINES [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/76f74898-7b3b-4fc1-b7d7-88cadfea2fdf.png"] Badge of Dishonor The Philippines is having its George Floyd moment. An off-duty police officer in the East Asian archipelago shot and killed Sonya Gregorio, 52, and her son Frank Gregorio, 25, on Dec. 20 over an argument about illegal fireworks and noise in...

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December 23, 2020

Of Freedoms and Free-For-Alls

NEED TO KNOW SOLOMON ISLANDS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3c7e70b3-a24d-4f3a-95d2-795b0355ebe6.png"] Of Freedoms and Free-For-Alls Leaders in the Solomon Islands are considering a ban on Facebook in order to promote “national unity” as well as end defamation and cyber bullying in the archipelago country that spans almost 900 miles in the South Pacific. “…freedom...

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December 18, 2020

Chaos in the Mountains

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/766aa12d-4910-4bb3-a204-adba72f724f9.png"] Chaos in the Mountains In the past two months, the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has had three presidents and four prime ministers. The instability kicked off after parliamentary elections on Oct. 4 when protesters took to the streets after three political parties with...

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December 14, 2020

Dancing Into Disease

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Dancing Into Disease China, like the US, Canada and the UK, is slowly rolling out plans to vaccinate its 1.4 billion people. The country has four vaccines that have been undergoing testing throughout the world, the Associated Press wrote. China even sent 1.2...

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December 07, 2020

Choosing the Future

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Choosing the Future Maybe the dominant narrative of the origin of the coronavirus is wrong. As the South China Morning Post reported, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that they had detected Covid-19 in blood samples collected in...

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November 25, 2020

The Uninvited

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] The Uninvited President Donald Trump abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade agreement negotiated under President Barack Obama that was designed to counter Chinese economic hegemony in the region. Recently, China and 14 other Asia-Pacific nations, many of the countries that had been in...

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November 12, 2020

Imitation and Limitation

NEED TO KNOW CHINA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/198e41ed-dcee-4398-8f9e-af928160f105.png"] Imitation and Limitation Is Shenzhen the new Hong Kong? That’s how Chinese leaders want the world to think of their sixth-largest city, a tech hub that is home to giants like Huawei and Tencent. As the Washington Post reported, Chinese President Xi Jinping recently...

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November 06, 2020

The Freedoms of Choice

NEED TO KNOW MYANMAR [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9ef34308-9cd1-4a8e-a2b3-e7a7ab6846ed.png"] The Freedoms of Choice Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi cast her ballot in advance of Myanmar's Nov. 8 parliamentary elections, the Associated Press reported. The Chinese news service Xinhua had photos of the voting process including the special measures designed...

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October 27, 2020

Sellouts and Patriots

NEED TO KNOW GEORGIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e341329d-b90e-4b8e-8e3b-6429d9366897.png"] Sellouts and Patriots A few weeks before a general election on Oct. 31, political candidates in Georgia received a surprise. Officials in the former government under the United National Movement party allegedly gave away chunks of Georgian territory during negotiations with Azerbaijan. Both are...

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October 21, 2020

The King and Them

NEED TO KNOW THAILAND [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9aed0fb0-f5eb-4eda-ae64-69e423143eb5.png"] The King and Them In May 1992, Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej summoned a military leader who had just become prime minister through a coup and a pro-democracy opposition figure who opposed the junta to his palace. Loyalty to the king compelled them both...

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October 20, 2020

The Sick Man

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/97627ae9-28af-4953-8b2d-b63f97cce5bc.png"] The Sick Man The coronavirus pandemic is undermining democracies worldwide. A report from Freedom House recently found that Covid-19 has “fueled crisis for democracy around the world,” worsening democratic conditions in 80 countries as leaders have abused their power, silenced critics, weakened institutions and...

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