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{audio}/images/podcast/Data_030410/india_honour_killings_final_bhs_inggris_100403.mp3{/audio} Download An Indian court has sentenced five men to death for murdering a young couple who got married against the wishes of local village elders. It's the firs...
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Rice prices have more than doubled since the start of the year, as global grain stock fall to its lowest since the late 1970s.If prices continue to skyrocket, Asia’s staple food could go beyond the reach of the poor.Some fear food riots and instabili...
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Nearly three weeks after Cyclone Nargis killed more than 100,000 people, the junta’s refusal to open the country to international aid help is condemning many more thousands to malnutrition, disease and unless something is done quickly, death.The gene...
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To the Burmese military rulers she is an insurgent and a deserter.To her patients Dr Cynthia Maung is a hero.She is the founder of a clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot that is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary.In 1989, equipped with medici...
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That’s the sound of one of the newest entries in the Guinness Book of records.A Nepalese man who can mimic the largest number of bird songs! 151 in fact.From a Parrot in Jungle.To endangered birds like the female Austrich.Nowadays, he spends his time...
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Cleaning up the police, health, education, and environment sectors should be a top political priority in the Asia-Pacific region, in order to loosen the stranglehold of corruption on the lives of the poor.That’s according to a new United Nations regi...
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In Afghanistan, the local film industry is on the mend.All forms of entertainment, including cinema, were banned by the Taliban from 1996 to 2002.But in recent years, more than one hundred private film companies have sprung up.They are releasing at lea...
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Vrindavan in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is called the ‘City of Widows’. This is where upper-caste Hindu widows, disowned by their families, come to live. Young or old, they spend their days singing hymns in temples, in exchange for ...
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Thousands of North Korean refugees have resettled in South Korea.Many flee their impoverished homeland because of starvation or political oppression.But Jason Strother introduces us to a man who says he escaped North Korea for his love of music....
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It’s more than three weeks since ten heavily armed militants struck India’s commercial capital Mumbai killing nearly 200 and wounding hundreds of others.The Indian Security forces killed nine of the assailants on the spot only one, Ajmal Kasab, was...
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With the US clothing market under increasing pressure, garment workers in Asia are losing their jobs.The textile manufacturing is one of Cambodia’s most important industries.According to government figures the sector employs nearly four hundred thous...
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In China, decisions about economic development are generally made using a top-down approach.Infrastructure like roads, bridges and dams are built in the name of the greater good, and affected communities are rarely consulted.They just have to do their ...
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As any tourist in Hanoi will tell you, reading Vietnamese is fairly easy.Vietnamese writing looks much like English or French.In fact, the French developed the modern Vietnamese alphabet when Vietnam was a French colony.But before that, Vietnamese was ...
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The dream of many South Korean parents is to have a child who is educated in the United States.But because of high costs and visa regulations, it’s not always so easy.Now many families are avoiding those obstacles by giving birth to their children in...
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The Philippines - the largest Catholic country in Asia - celebrates Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, by giving gifts.During this time Mangyans the indigenous people of the Island of Mindoro come down from their communities high in the mountains in...
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A group of young people sings Christmas carols in Pakistanis largest church- St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Karachi.Less than two percent of Pakistanis are Christians.Due to the final crisis facing the country and mounting religious extremism the small c...
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The next United States president, Barack Obama, has pledged to close the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after he takes office in January.In a recent interview with the U.S. television program “60 Minutes,” it was one of the ...
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Events in America are being closely watched in Afghanistan.There are around 30 Afghans among the 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay.As Zubair Babakarkarkhail in Kabul reports the families are now optimistic that they may see them again....
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Australian Mamdouh Habib was arrested and tortured in Pakistan in 2001, before undergoing rendition to Egypt where he suffered even worse torture.He was then taken to Guantanamo.In January 2005, he was released without charge.According to Habib, Austra...
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A dead woman comes out of her coffin and haunts people who killed her.The spirit of a dead handicapped nurse appears to hospital patients.These are familiar scenes in Indonesian film and television.This week, the world’s largest Muslim country is hol...
