Chinese-American author Geling Yan has hit out at the companies involved in releasing a Zhang Yimou film based on one of her novels outside China without crediting her
During his speech to the United Nations Security Council, Saurabh Kumar, Secretary (East) of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, discusses the need of strategic communications for effective peacekeeping and how the UN conducts its peacekeeping missions
Some technologists are focusing on how to prevent casualties as the U.S. reels from a recent wave of mass shootings.VOA’s Julie Taboh spoke with a couple of entrepreneurs who have developed technologies for detectecting guns
Normally, Somalia is one of the main exporters of livestock to the Middle East, particularly around the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. However, a record drought in the Horn of Africa has killed millions of animals, leaving Somali livestock farmers in a difficult situation—some are even being forced to live in displaced persons’ camps
According to health officials, one effect of the coronavirus lockdowns was that more people drank alcohol more frequently, with the World Health drank wpublicarning of increased health concerns and a rise in risky behaviours. Svitlana Prystynska takes us to a bar with a unique approach to drinking as more bars begin to
The beleaguered residents of the nearly destroyed village of Borodyanka, just outside of Ukraine’s capital, are receiving hundreds of meals daily from volunteers from Kyiv
After the government just made cannabis cultivation and possession, with some restrictions, legal, Thailand has entered a weed frenzy
The world was shocked when a photo of 6-year-old Vlad in Bucha, Ukraine, standing in his yard next to his mother’s grave went viral. During Russian invasion, Bucha witnessed some of the most horrifying incidents. During the Russian occupation, the family was forced to take refuge in the basement, where Marina Naumetz, Vlad’s mother,died
You might assume that donkeys are ubiquitous, yet for many people in rural Africa, they are a lifeline. Some countries are now concerned that they may even go extinct. Chinese traditional medicine known as ejiao is made from donkey skins, which are stolen and cruelly butchered by local criminal gangs to supply the market