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- Prices take shine off Pakistan weddings 9 Nov 2009 00:50 GMT
... wedding party in Karachi on November 7. Pakistan's traditionally lavish weddings have lost their sparkle ... on gold jewellery, as in other South Asian countries, but sales are down partly because of ... costume jewellery, mostly imported from China and India, Chand and shopkeepers said. Escalating food prices ...
- State of flux 9 Nov 2009 18:37 GMT
... India-China relations are in flux and their future ... the Indian media. (09 Nov 09 | South Asia ) (13 Oct 09 | South Asia ) (01 ...
- In Hong Kong, Anglican consultation addresses horrors of human trafficking 9 Nov 2009 20:33 GMT
... Philippines, England, Canada, USA, Mexico, Kenya, North India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Hong Kong. A significant ... UNICEF regional child protection consultant for East Asia and the Pacific; • Ohnmar Ei Ei Chaw of ...
- The Key To Future Food Security 9 Nov 2009 09:37 GMT
... Dr. Colin Chartres, Director General of the Sri Lanka - based International Water Management Institute. Chartres ... of them in developing countries across Africa, Asia and South America. Global crop production will have to ... Africa and 70 million rural poor in India, living outside formal irrigation districts, with respective ...
- The real reward 9 Nov 2009 02:52 GMT
... decade ago, in the wake of the Asian and Russian financial crises, Brazil was forced to devalue ... the 30m Brazilians who have emerged from poverty and the 20m who have joined Brazil's ... future of the Brics - Brazil, Russia, India and China - a concept thought up by Goldman ...
- Outside View: Uzbek Afghanistan proposal 9 Nov 2009 03:13 GMT
... for illustration purposes only Recent developments in Afghanistan, the deteriorating situation there and rising casualties ... hardly least, the deepening instability in neighboring Pakistan directly and negatively impacts the military-political situation ... metals, fertilizer, food and other goods. With Asian Development Bank assistance, Uzbekistan is helping upgrade ...
- Poverty-ridden child striving for study in Bangladesh capital 9 Nov 2009 14:31 GMT
... half an hour to his school in Bangladesh capital Dhaka for class at 2:30 p.m.. The poverty-ridden orphan, whose mother works at a garment ... to acute power shortage in the South Asian country. "I can manage the problem, I have ...
- Fortified flour and chewing gum - new approaches to malnutrition 9 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
... Baby treated for malnutrition at Ouahigouya regional hospital in northwestern Burkina ... all countries, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, and it is "especially important where under-five mortality is ... said. A similar decline was observed in India. The CCC also noted that global zinc supplementation to ...
- Global: Fortified flour and chewing gum - new approaches to malnutrition 9 Nov 2009 20:51 GMT
... Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients ... all countries, especially in Africa and Southeast Asia, and it is "especially important where under-five mortality is ... said. A similar decline was observed in India. The CCC also noted that global zinc supplementation to ...
- Conflicts over Water Have Potential to Be Catalyst for Peace, Cooperation, Specialist Tells Second Committee Panel Discussion 9 Nov 2009 14:54 GMT
... River Commission had survived two wars between India and Pakistan, and the last armed conflict in which ... scarce, predominantly Africa, South America and South-east Asia, and said countries must focus on providing the poor ...
- Malcolm Berko: Tips on moving your IRA into TIPS 9 Nov 2009 00:54 GMT
... emerging markets, small caps, bonds, gold and asia/far east. I believe that most portfolios are ... Security; Medicaid/Medicare; the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan; Fannie Mae; defense procurement; the Post Office; ... procurement; the Post Office; the war on poverty and so much more) exceeded congressional projections ...
- Debate over genetic modification continues to rage 9 Nov 2009 01:17 GMT
... as 2012, first in the Philippines and Bangladesh, and to be followed in other Asian countries." It adds that "three lines of high-zinc ... may be available in Bangladesh and Eastern India from 2012." In addition to beta-carotene-enhanced foods, ...
- Climate change's tech transfer challenge 9 Nov 2009 20:33 GMT
... developing countries. In 2008, researchers in five Asian emerging economies — China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand — set out to ... has inspired Mohammed Nasheed, president of the Maldives, to call for a "green power revolution". ...
- Contradictions of American Policy On Country [opinion] 9 Nov 2009 12:55 GMT
... of countries scattered across the Middle East, Asia, Europe, the Americas and, of course, Africa. ... Syria and elements of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is being seen as ... the country and its problems, waned. Then, famine set in during the early 1990's, and ...
- James Traynor: WE MUST SILENCE SPITEFUL MINORITY 9 Nov 2009 06:59 GMT
... players, who came here as children from India, Pakistan - incidentally, why after all this time ... we have at least a smattering of Asian-Scots in the professional game - Romania, Poland, ...
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