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...By 2100, just six countries are expected to have TFRs higher than 2.1: Tajikistan in central Asia, the Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa, and the African nations of Somalia, Chad and Niger....
...The word of God is reaching the ears of South Korean Christians through chatbots....
...extremism in south-east Asia’s largest country....
...“We don’t have anything in our databases which suggests this is a major terrorist organisation,” said Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management and the South Asia Terrorist...
...The grandson of a clairvoyant, Shankar was born to a religious, middle-class, south-Indian family in 1956. His father worked in the car industry....
...Pryke, director of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think-tank....
...Michael Ewens, an economist at California Institute of Technology who studies start-up financing, says he cannot think of a traditional venture capital fund that has ever invested as quickly as Tiger Global...
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...Asia at the University of New South Wales....
...When asked repeatedly about these camps and the fact most detainees are targeted because of their religion, Mr Widodo said only: “I don’t have the imagination for that....
...“What makes Sorriso thrive is religion....
...So far the tendency looks towards the latter [more] than the former,” says Rohit Chandra, assistant professor of public policy at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi....
...Kabir Taneja, author of a book on the influence of Isis in South Asia, said the Voice of Hind “lacked the finesse and quality of the usual Islamic State propaganda”....
...Three Pacific economies — Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu — appear to be among those nations most heavily indebted to China of any in the world, according to the report....
...Nava Nuraniyah, an analyst at the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict in Jakarta, said the government needed to be careful not to spawn new forms of discrimination and oppression....
...Public scrutiny of market power is growing in Thailand, where ride-hailing company Grab’s 2018 purchase of Uber’s south-east Asian operations left it the dominant operator by far in that sector....
...A quarter of Vanuatu’s population of 270,000 lost their homes and at least 15 people died when 325km-an-hour winds struck the archipelago of 82 islands in the South Pacific almost five years ago....
...Willie Ofahengaue, the first Tongan to represent the Wallabies and now the Victoria state head of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, told reporters that Folau had a right to freedom of “speech and religion...
...size of its projects is much larger than that of other donors, according to the Lowy Institute....
...“It was a good opportunity for any politician to exploit this issue and come out as the hero for society,” says Ricky Gunawan, director of the Jakarta-based Community Legal Aid Institute, which provides...
...and other religions....
...The UK is opening diplomatic posts in Vanuatu, Samoa and Tonga. The island nations of the South Pacific are old hands at “dollar diplomacy”....
...level of popularity,” says Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....
...the Thailand Development Research Institute, a think-tank....
...to a report by the Lowy Institute think-tank....
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