Facing European Union’s enhanced scrutiny over its handling of human right issues particularly related to fake blasphemy cases, Pakistan is making frantic efforts to salvage its image. The country’s main concern is to ensure continuation of benefits under GSP plus scheme of EU. The facility, granted for ten years (2014-23), allows Pakistan duty-free access on […] Continue reading
The Chinese government pledged to tackle workplace discrimination based on gender in its annual work report in March 2022, and called for equitable opportunity for all. Two Chinese government-controlled media sites, on the other hand, took around a month to reject the official report’s remarks. On April 12, the Chinese Communist Youth League’s Central Committee […] Continue reading
SChina observers are unanimous on one point; under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China is going back to the days of Mao Zedong of extreme communism. And with this is coming back the days of food shortage; the memory of the famine in Mao’s era, between 1958 and 1961, that had taken a toll of […] Continue reading
Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl and head of the Pakistan Democratic Movement recently said that flawed policies of “incompetent” rulers had paralysed Pakistan’s economy. While Fazlur Rahman made his pitch on the poor state of Pakistan’s economy for political reasons, the fact remains that economic conditions are going downhill partly due to […] Continue reading
Norway was born from the intertwining of the Norwegian and the Sami people. Long discriminated against and ghettoized, the Sami are now experiencing a rediscovery of their culture and traditions.
Albert Einstein, with respect to science, proclaimed that “The important thing is to never stop questioning”. Therefore, one has to ask pertinent questions and try to find their answers to follow the scientific way. However, this has been missing in the case of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) and their unregulated penetration in the health systems […] Continue reading
In a trend that refuses to be stemmed despite the government’s best efforts, the birth rate in China dropped to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people in 2021. The previous year, this figure was 8.52, as per the National Bureau of Statistics data. As the country faces the dual problem of a rapidly […] Continue reading
Norway was born from the intertwining of the Norwegian and the Sami people. Long discriminated against and ghettoized, the Sami are now experiencing a rediscovery of their culture and traditions
Suppose that you were the president of Niger, a landlocked West African country more than four times the size of Italy but with 80 percent of its territory straddling the Sahara Desert. You’d find it hard to provide for your population. 14 percent of your 24 million compatriots are suffering from severe or chronic food […] Continue reading