Browsing: Asia Pacific
The earthquakes – which hit central Myanmar on 28 March – killed at least 3,700 people, injured 4,800 more and…
Seven of the ten most populous cities in the world are in Asia, with Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai and Dhaka topping…
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, responding to inquiries, emphasised the Secretary-General’s condemnation of the attack.Media reports indicate that a gunman opened…
Wannapa Suprasert received a call from scammers who drew her into an elaborate false narrative involving identity theft, an international…
In a press statement issued on Friday, Council members expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the…
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) is just one of the UN agencies working to help the most vulnerable in…
Aid agencies warned on Tuesday that more than 6.3 million people remain in urgent need of support in the worst-affected…
As the Afghan economy faces stalled local production and weak job creation, Afghanistan continues to heavily rely on imports and…
Thein Zaw Win, Communications and Advocacy Analyst in the Yangon Office of the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA)…
The mission continued to receive reports that Afghan women are being denied the opportunity to join the workforce, are unable…
UN News: You have said that policymakers who signed off on aid cuts should come to Afghanistan to see the…
The 28 March quakes killed over 3,800 people and damaged or destroyed more than 55,000 homes across multiple regions, including…
Addressing journalists outside the Security Council at UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Guterres expressed deep concern over deteriorating relations…
In a note to correspondents issued by his spokesperson on Tuesday, Secretary-General António Guterres called for military restraint from both…
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari described a troubling pattern of weapons testing and…
“I hate earthquakes. Earthquakes took my mother and my aunt away,” five-year-old Khin Yadanar told the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), after…
The UN chief’s statement, released on Saturday, came shortly after news broke of a decision by the two countries to…
Many women came to the clinic who had walked multiple hours to receive maternal care – some of them with…
António Guterres issued the warning in a video message to the inaugural Sagarmatha Sambaad, or “Everest Dialogue,” convened by the…
When they eventually did, her mother said to her, “If you are going to die anyway, better to be shot…
Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.…
It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals of various nationalities are forced to carry out fraud in the…
According to reports, one boat carrying 267 people from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar, sank on…
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic…