Save the date: Surrey's 5X Blockparty early bird tickets on sale
Credit to Author: Stuart Derdeyn| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:29:22 +0000
Canada’s largest South Asian youth culture celebration takes place in Surrey this June.
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South Asian youth push for evolution of ideas and issues with 5X Press
Credit to Author: Stuart Derdeyn| Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:00:16 +0000
Spun out of Surrey’s annual 5X Festival, 5X Press aims to disrupt the narrative around South Asian youth issues and ideas.
Read moreThe Witches That Terrified Me as a Kid Are Actually Feminist Heroes
Credit to Author: Sadiya Ansari| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000
In South Asian folklore, the witch-like churail with her backward feet is actually based on women who died at the hands of their husbands and came back to haunt them.
Read moreIndia to fence entire border with Bangladesh
Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 08:59:03 +0000
DHAKA — Bangladesh has no objection to India’s plan to fence the entire border between the two countries if it is done following due procedure, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said. “India has already fenced about 80 percent of the border. They want to complete the rest of the work. I said that if it is […]
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Read moreMonsoon flooding death toll rises to 152 in South Asia
Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:02:31 +0000
Officials say the death toll has risen to 152 in monsoon flooding in South Asia as millions of people and animals
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Read moreSouth Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat
Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 12:45:30 +0000
Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic State-aligned media group.
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Read moreForeigners among those targeted in New Zealand mosque attack
Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 02:02:54 +0000
Several of those killed or wounded in the shooting rampage at two New Zealand mosques on Friday were from the Middle East or South Asia
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Read moreTourist arrivals in Nepal cross coveted 1-million mark
Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:00:23 +0000
Arrivals in Nepal crossed the coveted one-million mark for the first time in 2018 with 1.17 million foreign tourists streaming into the country.
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Read moreChina, South Asia to cooperate on interconnectivity, poverty alleviation
Kunming City, China — Interconnectivity, business, poverty alleviation, and finance were among the key areas for future cooperation identified in the First China-South Asia Cooperation Forum at the Hilton Yuxi Fuxian Lake in China on Friday.
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