BANGKOK (NYTIMES) – Mr Mechai Viravaidya twice saw Thailand in desperate trouble – first from a ruinous population explosion and then from the Aids epidemic – and he responded to both crises the same way: with condoms and his own considerable charisma. Birth control was something Thais neither talked about nor very much practised in […]
BANGALORE – As protesters in Sri Lanka trooped out of the President’s and Prime Minister’s homes on Thursday (July 14), some of them paused on the wide lawns for a last look or selfie. For days, citizens young and old, angry and amused, had overrun the white colonial-style palatial homes of the country’s most reviled […]
INDRAMAYU, INDONESIA (AFP) – In a small Indonesian fishing village, a man with a fake rhino head perched atop his own puts on a puppet show for a group of eager children. Former teacher Samsudin is educating the kids about the plight of the critically endangered Javan rhino – the world’s rarest – using cardboard […]
ISLAMABAD (DAWN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – What better illustrates the Afghan Taliban’s misogynistic and medieval worldview than the fact that not a single woman was invited to the three-day gathering in Kabul of over 3,500 clerics and ‘people of influence’ from around Afghanistan? As though to reinforce the irrelevance of women and the fact they are […]