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Download Uncertainty hovers over the 2010 Commonwealth Games with the organizers now facing charges of rampant corruption.
The government’s own watchdog has found evidence of financial irregularities in Games-related projects which have sparked protests from various groups.
Some officials of the Organizing Committee have already been dismissed while the government promises a thorough probe to find ...
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A Singapore man is facing charges of incitement of violence due to comments he made on Facebook about the government’s handling of the Youth Olympic Games.
The 27-year-old urged other users of the social networking site to ‘burn’ the head of the Games committee.
There has been a lot of online criticism of Singapore’s handling of the Youth Games that saw low crowd numbers.
But the Government...
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Two-year-old Merlina was killed by Indonesian police in the restive province of Papua.
She was shot near her house during a police raid to arrest an alleged criminal.
Police say those responsi...
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Chinese Buddhists in Malaysia believe that the tormented spirits of their ancestors are released from hell every year, for a month, to seek food and entertainment.
Known as the Hungry Ghost F...
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Poor Cambodians are giving up on the legal system and turning to God instead for justice in land conflicts.
Evictions and land conflicts are taking place across Cambodia at an alarming rate.
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The floods in Pakistan have brought more bad news for Pakistan’s struggling railways.
Several hundred kilometers of railway line have been washed away.
Before the floods the railways were faci...
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In the desert state of Rajasthan, in India, summer temperatures can soar up to 50 degrees centigrade.
Here, electricity can be as elusive as rain. Blackouts are an everyday experience for mos...
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After more than ten years of drought, Australia's Murray Darling basin's most important bird breeding sites is now in full flood.
The Murray-Darling is one of Australia's biggest river system...
Minorities denied government aid in flood affected Pakistan: The Catholic Vatican has expressed concern that minority communities such as Christians and Hindus are not receiving flood aid. It claims minorities are ‘systematically’ denial assistance by government officials in flood affected areas. The Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered inquiry into the matter. Naeem Sahoutara has this report from the government relief camp in Hyderabad where hundreds of Hindus are amongst the displaced. Cambodians students sell virginity to study: Youth unemployment rates in Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia are expected to rise to as high as 14.8 percent by the end of the year, according to a new report released by the International Labour Organisation. To struggle to get a education in order to compete in the job market is leading to young girls to take desperate measure. Khortieth Him meets one girl who is sold sex to pay for her studies.
These stories and much more this week on Asia Calling: Your Window on Asia
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