Diary

ANKARA

Here are the main stories that the Anadolu Agency’s English News Desk is planning to cover Monday, May 25, 2015:

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - The Sixth World Forum on Energy Regulation to begin.

CANAKKALE/TEKIRDAG – Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu to attend election rallies of the ruling Justice and Development, or AK Party.

SOUTH ASIA

SPECIAL REPORTS:

Economy, reform and nationalism in a year of Modi

By Mubasshir Mushtaq

MUMBAI – A year after Narendra Modi took office as India’s prime minister with promises of sweeping change, analysts debate whether he has been successful.

Rebuilding Kathmandu anew after Nepal quake

By Deepak Adhikari

KATHMANDU – Nepalis look at how to rebuild the capital Kathmandu safely, a month after an earthquake caused many of its buildings to collapse.

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

NIGERIA

ABUJA - Petroleum and finance ministers to appear before the Senate to discuss the fuel crisis.

ABUJA - Senator-elect Buruji Kashamu, who is wanted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement in an intercontinental drug trafficking ring, to appear before a court.

SAUDI ARABIA

RIYADH - Follow up on the ongoing airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi militant targets and loyalists of former president Saleh.

SPECIAL REPORTS:

Liberia Ebola orphans torn between govt, orphanages

By Evelyn T. Kpadeh

MONROVIA – Lorpu Gayflor considers herself to be lucky after her six orphaned siblings found a place at a local orphanage in Liberia after their widowed father died from Ebola virus.

Sleeping sickness‏ threatens 11 million Kenyans

By Andrew Ross

NAIROBI – Over 11 million people in Kenya are at risk of getting infected with sleeping sickness, a disease transmitted by tsetse flies to people in the rural areas who depend on agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry or hunting.

SOUTHEAST ASIA-PACIFIC

THAILAND

BANGKOK - Human Rights Watch tells Anadolu Agency that Thailand and Myanmar have "irresponsible positions" on the boat people issue.

MALAYSIA

KUALA LUMPUR – Prime Minister Razak vows to find human trafficking syndicates behind the mass graves of suspected refugees in a border town near Thailand.

SOUTH KOREA

SEOUL – South Korean firms in an inter-Korean factory park in North Korea to pay wages to North Korean employees this week, as sides yet to agree on wage cap issue.

CHINA

BEIJING - A total of 181 “terror gangs” have been busted since the launch of an anti-terror campaign in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region one year ago, according to data from a regional committee.