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Mental health isn’t just an urban concern in Nepal

While mental well-being discussions are growing in Kathmandu, communities across Nepal still suffer in silence.

  • Published: July 2, 202510:29 am
  • Author Dristy Moktan
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The cost of marrying off girls too soon

Child marriage is closely linked to high adolescent pregnancy rates. Girls under 18 have little control over their reproductive health and limited autonomy in making reproductive…

  • Published: June 27, 202510:40 am
  • Author Selim Jahan
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A new gen of Chinese consumers is logging in post-college admission exam

As the "gaokao," came to an end, China's high school graduates didn't just heave a sigh of relief — they opened their wallets to unleash the now familiar "post-gaokao economy,"…

  • Published: June 25, 202510:12 am
  • Author Zhang Xi
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Survivor’s miracle: The Statesman

It is a rare glimmer of life amid death, an outcome so improbable that it demands both awe and reflection.

  • Published: June 19, 202510:12 am
  • Author The Statesman
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Why we need to hear women’s voices from the hills in Bangladesh

A crisis is quietly unfolding in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, where long-running mountain streams are drying slowly but inexorably, pushing Indigenous communities deeper into…

  • Published: June 19, 20259:31 am
  • Author Dibarah Mahboob
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Online gambling and broken lives: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Mobile phones have become virtual casinos, making the poor especially vulnerable as they are lured by the promise to “play big and win big” and driven by quiet desperation and…

  • Published: June 18, 202511:03 am
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Love our expats: The Jakarta Post

Indonesia's bureaucrats should learn to be less xenophobic in dealing with expatriates.

  • Published: June 17, 202510:49 am
  • Author The Jakarta Post
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A woman’s worth

No country has reached gender equality.

  • Published: June 16, 202510:20 am
  • Author Muna Khan
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An unfinished revolution: Philippine Daily Inquirer

But while reclaiming the country’s sovereignty has since been celebrated as the end of struggle against a foreign power, there’s an unfinished battle that Filipinos continue…

  • Published: June 13, 202510:58 am
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Expand opportunities for people to encounter books: The Japan News

It is necessary to halt the decline in the number of bookstores and enhance momentum to protect them as a foundation of knowledge.

  • Published: June 12, 202510:43 am
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