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‘Hungry for 2 days with my 5 daughters’: Flood-hit people in Sylhet plead for relief

Mrittimahal and many other villages on the bank of Chengerkhal river are flooded and most of their residents have taken shelter in the nearby college, schools and in Shalutikar…

  • Published: June 21, 20227:48 am
  • Author The Daily Star
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South Korea’s misery index reaches highest in 21 years

The misery index, which measures how people actually feel about economic distress, was originally developed by Arthur Okun, an economist from the Brookings Institute, in the 1960s.

  • Published: June 21, 20227:46 am
  • Author Kim Da-sol
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Frustrated at home, domestic workers vow to fight for protection on international stage

Indonesia has at least 5 million domestic workers and many of them experience hostile working conditions, including abusive treatment and given no days off or health insurance by…

  • Published: June 21, 20227:20 am
  • Author Ann Asianews Network
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‘Everybody wants to be segregated’: Internal divisions in US hardening, warns Yale’s Prof Amy Chua

Citing anti-immigration, anti-China and anti-Muslim sentiment, she described the US currently as "hunkering down, and in a kind of very open way".

  • Published: June 20, 20225:03 pm
  • Author Nirmal Ghosh
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Kids getting hooked the biggest worry as Thailand legalises weed: Survey

However, over a third surveyed strongly agreed that cannabis can generate income and cure diseases.

  • Published: June 20, 20229:19 am
  • Author The Nation
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Millions marooned in one of the worst flooding disasters

As much as 72 percent of the Sylhet division is now submerged on the back of torrential rainfall and flash floods in upstream India's Meghalaya and Assam.

  • Published: June 20, 20229:11 am
  • Author The Daily Star
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UN chief warns against stigma, discrimination fueled by Internet, social media

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined that "hate speech incites violence, undermines diversity and social cohesion, and threatens the common values and principles that…

  • Published: June 20, 20228:55 am
  • Author May
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Bangladesh flood situation likely to get worse, cry for help grows louder

Locals said many people have taken shelter on nearby highways or river banks as the flood centres are either overcrowded or located far away from their homes.

  • Published: June 20, 20227:20 am
  • Author Dwoha Chowdhury and Mintu Deshwara
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The potential of Indonesia’s humanitarian leadership

Considering the size of its population, the strength of its democracy, its diversity and its human and values-based conduct, Indonesia has earned the respect of the international…

  • Published: June 20, 20225:43 am
  • Author Ann Maymann
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If I were a mayor

Here’s what teenagers in Nepal who are yet to attain voting age have to say.

  • Published: June 17, 20225:02 pm
  • Author Drishna Sthapit

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