Pakistan was ranked as the lowest country in South Asia closing 55 per cent of its gender gap vis-à-vis Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the top ranking countries in the region, with closing gender gaps of about 72 per cent and 68 per cent respectively. ..…

Likewise, Timor Leste has one the lowest crime rates Asia and development is advancing, including providing more employment opportunities for young people, he added. ..…

The list of failure is simply exhausting: a disastrous Iraq occupation, a destabilized Middle East and Asia, the persistent threat of terrorism, a menacing climate crisis, an insecure and dwindling energy supply, unprecedented trade deficits, unchecked global corporate power, our broken health care..…

“China wants to write the rules” in Asia. No, while Asian countries are imitating China’s model of trampling trade rules; they are threatened, not entranced, by their increasingly assertive giant neighbor. ..…

YEAR IN REVIEW – SOUTH ASIA: . . December 31, 2018 . . TEHRAN - The year gone by was shaped by many significant events in South Asia. ... Meanwhile, China stepped up its engagement in South Asia this year, especially in Afghanistan-Pakistan region, where U.S. has been slowly..…

I expect global interfaith efforts to continue to accelerate between Christians, Muslims and Jews, and those activities will also extend to Hindu in particular because of certain geo-political dynamics South Asia. . ..…

At its peak it held territory spanning most of Syria and Iraq, responsibility for terror attacks across Europe, Asia, and Africa.. ..…

The Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and East Asia once again became the scenes of global and intra-regional standoffs. ... Another important factor influencing the situation in the Central Asia, the Asia-Pacific and even Africa is the US-Chinese..…

Isaiah 23:1-3 prophesy of an end-time “mart of nations,” or economic alliance, between Europe and Asia. ... “[T]he giants of Asia” will form a “brief alliance” with the European bloc, he writes. ..…

While the press fawned over the policy of President Obama, President Trump's groundbreaking strides to secure East Asia, Europe, and Middle East are met with journalistic sneers or apathy. ..…

Aryans, they argue, originated within the Land of India, spreading themselves and their family of Indo-European languages across large parts of Asia and Europe. . ... Other genetic studies have brought to light more migrations into India, such as that of the speakers of Austro-Asiatic languages who..…

In Asia, two longtime rivals appear to be “burying the samurai” and moving toward closer cooperation and alignment. . ..…

. … China is intimidating the nations of Southeast Asia into submission to its will. … Everything is headed in the direction of war.” . ..…

When he traveled to Asia in November, Trump embraced Duterte as a friend. . . . . 68. ..…