China opens new Arctic trade route – but obstacles will prevent its wider use
Edward Rhys Jones, University of Oxford Sea Legend, a Chinese shipping line, recently announced it was launching a regular container…
Category: Asia
North Korea grows stronger as South Korea reckons with fading US support
Virginie Grzelczyk, Aston University According to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, North Korea is preparing to send as many as 50,000…
The Taliban has brought Afghanistan close to collapse, but resistance is growing
Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan,…
Myanmar floods leave 32,000 people at risk of deepening hunger, WFP says
The UN World Food Programme has launched an emergency response in Myanmar, where monsoon flooding threatens to push already vulnerable…
Trafficking victims forced to run online scams deserve protection, not prosecution, says UN agency
Organised crime networks are trafficking hundreds of thousands of people into forced labour inside online scam compounds, according to the…
DR Congo: Ebola Bundibugyo treatment trials begin, WHO says
The World Health Organization has welcomed the start of clinical trials for potential treatments for Ebola Bundibugyo disease in the…
Afghanistan hunger crisis intensifies as millions left without food aid
Afghanistan’s acute hunger crisis now affects 14 million people, including babies fed on nothing but weak tea and scraps of…
Taliban failing to punish abusive security forces, UN mission warns
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are failing to hold their own security forces to account over allegations of abuse, a UN mission…
UN investigators document deliberate military attacks on civilians in Myanmar
Myanmar’s military has carried out a campaign of deliberate attacks on civilians, including airstrikes on homes, schools and camps, alongside…
Shipwreck survivors found after 4 days at sea
Five people who went missing after the KM Nurul Salsa sank off Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province were found alive on…