Turmoil Puts Schooling at Risk for Afghan Children More than 1,100 children per day could drop out of school in 2017, an international children’s rights organization warned Thursday,… 03/23/2017 Aimas
US Forces Vow to Defeat Islamic State in Afghanistan This Year U.S. forces in Afghanistan are upping the fight against an expanding Islamic State offshoot based near the Afghan-Pakistan border and… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Thai Leader Uses Executive Power, Mandates More Seat Belt Use Thailand's military government is cracking down on traffic carnage, invoking special executive powers accorded by an interim constitution to force… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Vietnam Says Two Bloggers Posted Anti-state Propaganda Vietnam has detained two bloggers for posting anti-state comments, which the Communist-ruled country said should serve as a warning to… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Australia Close to Resettling 12,000 Syrian Refugees Australia is close to resettling the 12,000 refugees from the war in Syria and Iraq it promised to urgently take… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Growing Runner Beans to Avert Child Marriage, Trafficking in Eastern India For a teenager, Sarjana Biswas has rather modest ambitions: finish school, go to college and become a government healthcare worker… 03/22/2017 Aimas
South Koreans Could Raise Sunken Ferry If Test of Lift Goes Well Salvage experts in South Korea could on Wednesday begin raising a ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing more… 03/22/2017 Aimas
US, South Korea Say North Korean Missile Test Fails The United States and South Korea say a North Korean missile test Wednesday ended in failure. A spokesman for the… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Barber-turned-rapper Crowned ‘Afghan Star’ in Talent Show A barber-turned-rapper has been crowned the winner of an Afghan talent show that offered its audience some relief from daily… 03/22/2017 Aimas
Is Xi Jinping Putin-izing China? One thing that was clear during China’s recently concluded high-level political meetings in Beijing is that Xi Jinping is the… 03/21/2017 Aimas
Taiwan to Build its Own Submarine, President Vows on Visit to 50-Year-Old Vessel Taiwan will build its own submarines, President Tsai Ing-wen pledged on Tuesday, as the self-ruled island looks to fresh arms… 03/21/2017 Aimas
Beijing’s Anti-THAAD Moves Sour China Views in South Korea A new public opinion poll shows growing anti-China sentiment in South Korea over reports of economic retaliation by Beijing against… 03/21/2017 Aimas
Afghan Official: Attack Kills 6 From Intelligence Service A suicide car bomber targeted an Afghan forces' checkpoint in southern Helmand province, killing at least six members of an… 03/21/2017 Aimas
Cambodian LGBT Comes Out of the Shadows Cambodia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is coming out with an assertion of unprecedented pride, in stark contrast… 03/21/2017 Aimas
Malaysia Mulls Naval Upgrades Amid IS Threat, South China Sea Standoff Malaysia is gunning for a revamp of its aging naval fleet, as countries in the region prepare to face threats… 03/20/2017 Aimas
Afghan Music Contest Pits First Female Finalist Against Rapper An 18-year-old female novice singer and a 23-year old barber-turned-rapper are the unlikely finalists of a televised talent contest providing… 03/20/2017 Aimas
New Law May Help With Forced Conversions of Pakistani Hindu Girls A new law designed to protect the marital rights of Pakistan’s minority Hindu community is also expected to help prevent… 03/20/2017 Aimas
$75 Million Pledged to Protect Heritage Sites in War Zones World donors pledged more than $75 million Monday to protect cultural heritage sites threatened by war and the wave of… 03/20/2017 Aimas
Appointment of Hardline Hindu Leader in India’s largest State Raises Concerns The appointment of a controversial Hindu religious leader, Yogi Adityanath, as Chief Minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh,… 03/20/2017 Aimas
Monitors: 24-Year-old Tibetan Self-Immolates in Anti-China Protest Monitors say a 24-year-old Tibetan man set himself on fire Saturday outside a monastery in China's southwestern Sichuan province, a… 03/19/2017 Aimas