How an election kicked off a Kyrgyz crisis
The leaderless protests that brought down Kyrgyzstan's government, prime minister and president
It’s less than a fortnight since elections in Kyrgyzstan triggered mass protests. Since then the prime minister has resigned, the president too, and a man who was in prison then is now prime minister and self-declared acting president. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Kyrgyz Editor Gulnara Kasmambet shares the view from Bishkek.
My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town: Byblos
In our series My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town, we revisit Byblos in Lebanon with Janay Boulos of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic.
Giving Afghan mothers a name
Afghan women recently won a major victory; after a 3 year campaign mothers' names can now be recorded alongside fathers' on children's ID cards. Mahjooba Nowrouzi of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afghan explains why this change is so significant.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Persian reports the US election debates
Iranians are following the US presidential election closely, with the candidates taking opposite positions on US sanctions. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Persian’s Siavash Ardalan and Nicholas Niksadat talk about the challenges of simultaneously interpreting the raucous, and occasionally rude, first presidential debate.
In praise of mahjong
The tile-based game has been played in China for centuries, but what’s the appeal? It's a question we posed to our ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Chinese colleagues and mahjong aficionados, Howard Zhang and Suping.
Image: A rally in Bishkek in support of the former Kyrgyz president
Credit: EPA/IGOR KOVALENKO
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