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- Fears Thailand will deport 4,000 Hmong to Laos 22 Dec 2009 13:24 GMT
... BANGKOK (AFP) – Rights groups and diplomats have expressed ... persecution, by the end of the year. Thai authorities have reportedly deployed extra troops to ... Laos to expel the group before 2010. Thailand has also failed to renew an agreement, ...
- Golden Rice - fighting vitamin A deficiency 22 Dec 2009 12:23 GMT
... popular rice varieties. Golden Rice is being bred into local rice varieties in the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. National agricultural research institutes in these countries are testing Golden Rice to make sure ...
- The skinny on being thin 22 Dec 2009 12:23 GMT
... WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—Nancy Brueheim wishes she could break 100 ... the scale, including body image, diet and malnutrition, hydration status and exercise frequency. Certainly, it's ... must. When Gan was growing up in Malaysia, his father used to call him “chicken legs” ...
- Peeling Back the History of Jeju 22 Dec 2009 12:22 GMT
... Andrei Lankov For centuries, Jeju Island, the ``Korean Hawaii'' was associated not with luxurious resorts and ... honeymooning couples, but with something different ― poverty and remoteness. Indeed, stormy seas made regular ... not compete with the fruits from the Philippines which were eight times cheaper and still ...
- Number of Filipinos suffering from kidney failure increasing--expert 22 Dec 2009 11:31 GMT
... one person with kidney failure in the Philippines dies every hour according to a well-known ... Ramos was commanding a platoon in the Korean This was possible, according to Ona, because ... how it would be possible for a Filipino to donate his organ to a long-time ...
- INDONESIA: Tsunami rebuilding a "success" but challenges remain 22 Dec 2009 11:30 GMT
... INDONESIA: Tsunami rebuilding a "success" but challenges remain ... [develop] 2,000ha of new fields," he said. Poverty, healthcare and education are among the most ...
- Guest column: Sub-Saharan Africa's promise is growing 22 Dec 2009 11:17 GMT
... At a time of seemingly nothing but bad news internationally, ... from Iraq to Afghanistan, Iran to North Korea, climate change to the global economic crisis, there ... women, and thereby lift Africa out of poverty." The Obama administration, fully appreciating the moral ...
- Coe's passage to India 22 Dec 2009 10:56 GMT
... Next to a 30-a-side tug-of-war contest, a game of cricket ... speech to the International Olympic Committee in Singapore four years ago, he pledged that if ... A bit like promising to end world poverty. “I am conscious that people probably thought ...
- Lord Coe's Olympic passage to India 22 Dec 2009 10:50 GMT
... Next to a 30-a-side tug-of-war contest, a game of cricket ... speech to the International Olympic Committee in Singapore four years ago, he pledged that if ... A bit like promising to end world poverty. “I am conscious that people probably thought ...
- Children of Honduras Trust backs Derbyshire-based Aquabox 22 Dec 2009 10:10 GMT
... Children of Honduras Trust backs Derbyshire-based Aquabox WHEN ... of victims of natural disaster, war and poverty, by sending out water purification kits. Each ... in seven years. A recent disaster in Indonesia has also almost wiped out the group's ...
- Land allocation protest at Govt House 22 Dec 2009 09:47 GMT
... About 2,000 supporters of the Network of People's Councils ... a a project to reallocate land to poor people. Led by Veerapol Sopha and Suphan Naksing, ... solve the problem of land encroachment by Cambodian people along the border from Nam Yuen ...
- Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say 22 Dec 2009 09:32 GMT
... Dear President Obama, So nice to hear from you, ... nations, opening the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to economic benefits, new trading relationships and ... a planeload of missile parts intercepted in Thailand. I think you know where that plane ...
- 2009 Year of the underdog 22 Dec 2009 09:05 GMT
... Yang's taming of Tiger in that epic US PGA ... Then a humble farmer's son from South Korea emerged from relative obscurity and broke the greatest ... Tour victory in two years in the Singapore Open. In fairness, behind all the fluff, ...
- Population explosion 22 Dec 2009 08:53 GMT
... The human population is rapidly growing out of control ... lay in Hanoi Maternity Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, Oct 29, 2007. CHITOSE SUZUKI Although population dynamics ... the 20th century. Although deaths from disease, malnutrition, war and many other causes are still ...
- Foreign filmmakers get creative with small budgets 22 Dec 2009 07:50 GMT
... there are major challenges. in his native Philippines, which has gone from making 200 films ... people who really watch a lot of Filipino movies cannot afford it. They watch television ... the film was about a family in poverty, Dai hoped the style would attract an ...
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