Overcoming poverty

Quarter of global population faces extremely high water stress each year

West Asia and North Africa most water-stressed  

10 disturbing trends for Asia and the Pacific

The region is ageing rapidly, has the largest number of threatened species and more

Rodent menace

The plague of Samar Island

Nepal’s tigers triple: India had and will continue to have a role to play, say experts

Nepal now has 355 tigers, compared to 235 in 2018

UNITED NATIONS

Indian scientists receive international award on behalf of snow leopard conservation alliance

There may be as few as 4,000 and no more than 6,300 snow leopards left in the wild

Half of the world’s hungry people live in Asia-Pacific; Southern Asia worst affected: FAO

Higher food, feed, and fuel prices, combined with a slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic to blame; women fared worse in food insecurity

Artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites can infect African mosquitoes, says study

This could have dreadful consequences for Africa, a continent vulnerable to malaria

What's ailing?

A WHO report on Southeast Asia blames poverty for the rot

Ballooning risk

Pipeline for peace

Retro Ledo

A 1942 route could become new Asian link

For the Marginalized

South, Southeast Asia have most of world’s underweight youth: IFAD

Number of those overweight also increasing; more underweights in rural areas 

Complementing Kyoto

Asia-Pacific Partnership holds its first meeting

UNITED NATIONS

Book Excerpt: Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia

In Forgotten Foods, historians, literary scholars, plant scientists, heritage practitioners, writers and chefs come together to document …

The Caspian Sea is set to fall by 9 metres or more this century – an ecocide is imminent

Climate change is causing the sea to recede, leaving barren land in its wake

Simply Put: Great GDP Race

If this is emancipation

...critics of the government's recent draft on women's issues would rather not have it

SUBCONTINENTAL WOES

Continental hope

A new combustion technique will make two-stroke engines -Asia's bane - cleaner

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The poverty dilemma

Can Asia reduce poverty by half by 2015?