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Millennium Development Goals

Roxana Saberi Charged With Spying

India & Pakistan : Siblings/Foes

Anwar Ibrahim

Best Reporting on Environment of 2008 Prem Bhatia Award

ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Nuclear Safeguards System an Example for the World

Kazakhstan Leads Battle to Ban Nuclear Testing

Obama Resists Pressure for Red Line on Iran's Nuclear Capability

Chernobyl Effects Could Last Centuries

Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran

SRI LANKA: War-weary Civilians Dream of New Homes

SRI LANKA: Former Battle Zone In Search of A Business Boom

SRI LANKA: War Over, But Women Wage Battle For Survival

SRI LANKA: Protest Highlights Hostility to International Criticism

SRI LANKA: After Decades of Bloodshed, Home Calls

AMERICAS: THE BATTLE OVER VENEZUELA
By Ignacio Ramonet

CUBA: STABILITY AND SECURITY
By Joaquin Roy

WE MUST UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF NATURE TO SUPPORT LIFE AND THE PLANET
By Jose Mujica*

HUMAN RIGHTS SHOULD BE THE HEART OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
By Rowena McNaughton

MDGs: THE 2015 TARGET DATE LOOKS DIMMER THAN EVER
By Supachai Panitchpakdi

RIGHTS-INDIA
Law to Restrict Foreign Funding Alarms NGOs
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Voluntary and charitable organisations in India are aghast at a new law to restrict foreign contributions, that was passed by both Houses of Parliament recently.
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PHILIPPINES
Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abortions
By Diana Mendoza
MANILA - "I felt scared. When I looked around, all the mothers had finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body," Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting her experience in post-abortion care at a public hospital here in the Philippine capital.
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SRI LANKA
Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solution Unclear

By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - The ordeal of a Sri Lankan domestic worker whose Saudi Arabian employer allegedly drove nails and metal wires into her body has sent alarm bells ringing among government officials and activists, but how such abuses can be stopped remain far from clear.
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500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods
By Aprille Muscara
UNITED NATIONS - Aid groups and U.N. agencies are raising the alarm over the vulnerability of pregnant women and babies in flood ravaged Pakistan.
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SRI LANKA
War-weary Civilians Dream of New Homes
By Adthiya Alles
COLOMBO - Ramaih Sathdiyapillai has had enough of life on the run. A native of Kilinochchi district – which was until not too long ago the stronghold of the separatist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka’s north – she bore the brunt of the war along with tens of thousands of others.
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AFGHANISTAN
Not Much Good News for the Media
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Good news has become harder to come by these days in Afghanistan, especially as the war-ravaged country gears up for the parliamentary election scheduled on Sep. 18.
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DEVELOPMENT
South-east Asian Highway Hits Roadblock in Burma
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - With its thick forest cover and abundant wildlife, the Dawna mountain range in south-eastern Burma is coming in the way of a flagship highway project being pushed by one of Asia’s premier financiers of roads.
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INDIA
Kashmiri Youngsters Wage Online Struggle
By Athar Parvaiz – Asia Media Forum*
SRINAGAR, India - Rasik Rasheed’s (not his real name) hefty Internet bills hardly bother his family. Cooped up at home due to curfews and strikes here for nearly three months now, youngsters like him have been busy not just with their studies but with waging what they call the Kashmir struggle on the Internet.
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JAPAN
Househusbands Giving Birth To More Gender Equality
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - Since their first child was born 16 years ago, Hiroyuki Ozaki has taken care of the household, relinquishing his traditional role as the main breadwinner while his wife held on to her career in the travel industry.
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Media Didn’t Buy Petraeus Command’s Story of Low Taliban Morale
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - In an effort to introduce a story of "progress" into media coverage, Gen. David Petraeus’s command claimed last week that the Taliban is suffering from reduced morale in Marjah and elsewhere, despite evidence that the population of Marjah still believes the Taliban controls that district.
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RIGHTS-CHINA
Environment Lawsuits Often Become Lonely Fights
By Michael Standaert
XIADIAN, China - Feng Jun's fight against a local government and the steel mills he believes polluted the water that killed his daughter has cost him nearly everything.
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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN
Mob Brutality Raises Painful Questions
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan - A breakdown in Pakistan’s justice system, a sign of a society desensitised to violence, an example of mob brutality.
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BURMA
Military Shake-up Reveals Junta’s Plans for New Gov’t
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - As the November general election in Burma approaches, the country’s junta is revealing the political designs underway in order to place the powerful military under civilian authority after a lapse of 22 years.
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PHILIPPINES
Media Take a Hit in Hostage Crisis
By Kara Santos – Asia Media Forum*
MANILA - In the wake of the bungled hostage-rescue operation that left eight Hong Kong tourists and the gunman dead, the Philippine media are finding themselves a target of anger by many who say that sensationalism and no-holds-barred coverage added to the bloody end to a crisis they call an international embarrassment.
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HEALTH-INDIA
Infant Deaths Cast Doubt on Vaccination Policy
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - The deaths of four infants during a recent vaccination drive in Lucknow, capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state, has raised questions about the Indian government's plan to introduce five-in-one vaccines in a countrywide immunisation programme.
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