The BJP-led state government wants hoteliers and restaurateurs to display their names, so that Hindu pilgrims visiting Shiva temples at this time of the year can avoid Muslim-run establishments. The Supreme Court stayed the state order and will re-examine the matter later. The district where the order was supposed to apply saw serious violence in 2013.
Another boat with 45 refugees on board sank in the past few hours in the very stretch of water at the centre of concerns over Houthis attacks against shipping. Almost one hundred thousand people travelled this route in the past year, which the International Organisation for Migration defines as the most dangerous in the world.
Thongkham Philavanh, 40, was attacked in his home in the village of Vanghay. Rescued by his wife, he died on arrival in hospital. The murder of Pastor Sy Sengmany in 2022, a case that is still unsolved. A relative of Philavanh: ‘Groups of people do not like what he did’.
The non-participation in the Tokyo 2020 Games led to the exclusion of the Beijing 2022 winter event as well. In PyeongChang, athletes from North and South Korea paraded and played together to the point that there was speculation that a peace treaty would be signed. Today, relations with Seoul are once again hostile.
From Tajikistan's green tea to Kazakhstan's Kumys to Kyrgyzstan's Ayran: cooling off in the summer heat in Central Asia is an ongoing rediscovery of ancient nomadic and semi-nomadic traditions, of peoples who also rediscover their ancient identity by sipping their drinks.
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