South Asia Citizens Web

It is a story of spending and investment on a scale never seen before in human history — 30 new airports, 26,000 miles of motorways and a new skyscraper every five days have been built in China in the last five years. But, in a situation eerily reminiscent of what has happened in the west, the vast majority of it has been built on credit. This has now left the Chinese economy with huge debts and questions over whether much of the money can ever be paid back.

SAAPE Secretariat and its Campaign “Demilitarization, Democratization and Social Justice” (led by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research - PILER; Co-organiser: Human Rights Alliance, Nepal) invite all the members of SAAPE and Peoples SAARC to attend a South Asia regional convergence at Hotel Orchid, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal on March 26-27, 2014. Mr. Bam Dev Gautam (TBC), Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal will be the chief guest at the inaugural session of the regional (…)

The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has declared that it is not mandatory for a man to seek permission of his wife/wives before marrying again and that underage marriage is not un-Islamic.

The problem with the clergy is that they are caught in a seventh century time — and tribal Arabia space — warp

Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you’re going to need them."