Dialogue launches without junior doctors, main opposition, after 10-month standoff in South Korea
The committee aims for 'meaningful results' by this year. Junior doctors' group head, however, denounces meeting as 'meaningless.'
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Can Khyber Pakhtunkhwa make do without constitutional benches?
The government is in no hurry over the issue of formation of constitutional benches in the high court, KP Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel told Dawn, adding that prior to…
After Trump: A Duterte comeback in 2028?
Across democracies, from Argentina to Germany, ”anti-system” candidates have made tremendous inroads. From Silvio Berlusconi in Italy to the Thaksins in Thailand, populists…
Student backlash erupts as Dongduk Women’s University weighs coed future
The student council wrote in a statement, “We are wholly against the coeducational transition that contradicts the founding purpose of the university, which was established with…
How apprehension of Awami League’s comeback is affecting the interim government
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Only one-third of young diabetic South Koreans receiving treatment: data
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Philippines blocks 1,600 birth certificates illegally obtained by foreigners
During the deliberations of the national budget bill in 2023, then Sen. Sonny Angara disclosed that more than 300 fake birth certificates linked to foreigners and Filipinos alike…
Indonesia ranks 77th in global hunger levels
7.2 percent of the population is still not food secure.
Philippine health department reports dip in dengue case fatality rate for 2024
As of October, a total of 314,785 dengue cases nationwide have been reported although the numbers have been going down.
Japan’s opposition party to prioritise income tax reform
The DPFP wants to change the income tax system so that students working part-time and others who earn more than ¥1.03 million will not create a higher tax burden for their…