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At the Wheel: Women Drive Pakistan’s Ride-Sharing Industry0
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- June 21, 2018
By Ambreen Ali • JUN 21 2018 Why you should care Ride-sharing companies are hiring more and more female drivers. Pakistan 30.375321° N, 69.345116° E view map 197,015,955Population Multiple, including UrduSpoken Language $5,354GDP Per Capita IslamabadCapital City Riffat Sheraz stands out in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, as she rides on her motorcycle with a man
READ MOREHE’S GIVING DISPLACED ROHINGYA A VOICE — AND A WALLET0
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- May 8, 2018
BY SKOT THAYER • MAY 08 2018 Why You Should Care Because Muhammad Noor is binding together an endangered people. Malaysia has become one of the most popular destinations for the Rohingya people driven from their homelands in Myanmar. They are often smuggled into Kuala Lumpur, where they arrive with hopes as high as the megacity’s glass-and-steel towers. Muhammad
READ MOREBangladesh Bets on Connectivity for Its Next Economic Leap0
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- May 5, 2018
Bangladesh Bets on Connectivity for Its Next Economic Leap By Charu Sudan Kasturi • MAY 04 2018 Why you should care Because Bangladesh aims to be the connectivity link between South and East Asia. Bangladesh 164,669,751Population BengaliSpoken Language $4,207GDP Per Capita DhakaCapital City Firecrackers lit the March sky over Dhaka as Bangladesh savored the U.N.
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Asia’s Energy Revolution Could Kill Trump’s Coal-Powered Dreams0
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- February 3, 2018
By Nithin Coca Why you should care A key campaign promise may soon be on the ropes. For one of President Donald Trump’s best-known campaign promises — to revive the American coal industry — to succeed, the U.S. is counting on major energy-guzzling economies to purchase the fossil fuel. There’s increasing evidence now suggesting that
READ MOREWill India Soon Erupt Into Religious-Based Politics?0
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- November 12, 2017
Why you should care Because the world’s largest democracy has stood as a beacon of pluralism for seven decades. For 70-year-old Haji Mehboob, born and raised in the north Indian city of Ayodhya, the sight of Yogi Adityanath, the state chief minister, visiting his hometown brings back memories of a period 25 years ago, when
READ MORETIBET’S NEXT LEADER WARNS HOW APATHY CAN KILL0
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- October 26, 2017
By Greg Bruno WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because apathy can become an epidemic. The 17th Karmapa of Tibet, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, has been called the future “shepherd of the Tibetan people,” a Buddhist leader-in-waiting who may one day replace the Dalai Lama as the most important crimson-clad chieftain for many Tibetans. Though his claim to the throne of
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