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#TaiwanCanHelp #TaiwanIsHelping
Understanding the global call for Taiwan’s membership to the WHO and recognition for their offering of support and solidarity in the global coronavirus pandemic.
NOA Episode 2.2 A Deep Dive into the Socio-Economic Impacts of Coronavirus
Our topic for this two-part podcast is a snapshot of the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in East Asia, the South East Asia region, South Asia and the Middle East. In this episode, we will be looking at the Middle East instead and some of the areas we will be focusing on including the diplomatic developments between countries in the region with the US over trade and exports, the fall of oil prices in the Gulf Cooperation Council region (or GCC for short), Palestinian and Israelian cooperation in their efforts to contain the coronavirus, and also looking closer at regions like Yemen, riddled with years of intrastate wars and refugee crises, and how they are coping under the pressures of the pandemic.
NOA Episode 2.1 A Deep Dive into the Socio-Economic Impacts of Coronavirus
Our topic for this two-part podcast is a snapshot of the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in East Asia, the South East Asia region, South Asia and the Middle East. In this episode, we will be touching bases with issues like China’s global economic integration, impacts on the worst-hit sectors like that of travel and tourism, and finally, dispel the myth behind the uncannily low numbers of cases detected in South Asia.
NOA Episode 1.2 Coronavirus and Racism
The virus itself is a threat to public health, and somehow, the masks represent that threat because people here are told only to wear masks if they are ill. But there are two different ways of going about the whole idea of mask wearing.
NOA Episode 1.1 Coronavirus and Racism
I think the interesting thing about us being Asians is that we are minority but not in the same sense as other people. There is a term they use to describe this, which is ‘model minority’. So we are the minority, but we are not too different.
Citizen Amendment Act in India: A Democratically-sanctioned genocide underway?
A Hindu university standing against police brutality in a Muslim university is a true reflection of what Indian society was always meant to be - compassionate and tolerant. A land with abundant Islamic influence, which gave birth to four major world religions, cannot afford to be anything but secular.
Coronavirus in India: An Illusion of Control?
Panic-shoppers and widespread fear: effect of Covid-19 on the economy and public sentiment in HK
The UK is not the only panic shopper in this pandemic. When commenting on the panic buying in Hong Kong, one of the places where COVID-19 first hit, a Bloomberg article described the financial hub as showing symptoms of a ‘failed state’.
International Women’s Day 2020: ‘I Am Generation Equality’
Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th March. In partnership with this year’s theme of “I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights”, the UN Women agency has taken the lead in launching their own campaign, #GenerationEquality; advocating a multi-generational approach in tackling the concerns of gender-equality in the current generation.
Khojaly Remembrance Day: NEVER FORGET KHOJALY!
The night of 25th February 1992, the city of Khojaly in Azerbaijan witnessed brutal bloodshed as a total of 613 Azeris lost their lives. In addition to those killed, a total of 150 went missing, 487 were injured and 155 children were left orphans.