From the three-light traffic signal, refrigerated trucks, automatic elevator doors, color monitors for desktop computers, to the shape of the modern ironing board, the clothes wringer, blood banks, laser treatment for cataracts, home security systems a…
Western sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station to crash, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos warned Saturday, calling for the punitive measures to be lifted.According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which …
U.S. authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them fee…
In the Lao PDR, more than a third of women experience violence in their lifetime but less than two percent of women report it to authorities.The Second Five-Year National Action Plan Prevention and Elimination of Violence Against Women (NAPEVAW) set
The Lao PDR is facing the third wave of Covid-19 outbreak with some provinces including Vientiane witnessing a rebound in infections after recording less than 200 new cases a day for almost one month, according to the National Taskforce
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday dealt essentially a final blow to abortion clinics’ best hopes of stopping a restrictive law that has sharply curtailed the number of abortions in the state since September and will now fully stay in
Thousands of refugees in Indonesia are finding themselves shut out of public services including travel and shopping because of a bureaucratic glitch that prevents them from proving they have been vaccinated against COVID-19.Indonesia is a transit count…
WASHINGTON — After making a dramatic escape from Kabul last August, Zarifa Ghafari, once Afghanistan’s youngest female mayor, vowed to return to her native country.“Leaving [Afghanistan] doesn’t mean I’ve left forever,” she told VOA after evacuating to…
