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INDIA
Handicrafts Give Rural Women A Helping Hand
By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna
NAUGAON, India - With her arms loaded with flowers and leaves, Mohini Indrawan negotiates the dusty village track leading up to her house in this northern Indian state, pausing now and then to exchange pleasantries with a passing acquaintance. Her spending a few hours away from home each day was once labelled "immoral", but Indrawan is now hailed as a role model for other women.
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SOUTH ASIA
Fishers’ Release A Good Catch for India-Pakistan Ties
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan - It took almost two hours before Jeenti Deva, 16, could board the bus that would bring him home to India, but the long wait did not stop him from smiling.
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LATIN AMERICA
Ties with China Based on Commodity Exports, Manufactured Imports
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow again this year, driven largely by demand from China. But the high proportion of commodities may increase dependency on China, and Asia as a region, warns a new report by ECLAC, the regional United Nations agency.
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CHINA
Bigger Bite Needed into Appetite for Shark Fin Soup
By Mitch Moxley
BEIJING - Campaigns featuring some of China’s biggest celebrities, including basketball star Yao Ming and actor Jackie Chan, have persuaded some Chinese to think twice about eating shark fin soup. But changing attitudes about the centuries-old delicacy, a large contributor to decimated shark populations, continues to be a challenge.
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ASIA
Japan Watches As China Passes It By
Analysis by Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - China’s stepping up as the world’s second largest economy drives home to Japan the point that after decades of ruling the roost in Asia, it will have to share the leadership stage with a new, powerful contender that is here to stay.
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Flood-Ridden Pakistan Ineligible For Emergency Debt Relief
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - A loan deal between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and flood-stricken Pakistan announced Thursday has drawn the ire of several NGOs that claim the deal represents an "inadequate" and "cynical" response to the disaster that is estimated to have affected the lives of millions.
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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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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
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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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Househusbands Giving Birth To More Gender Equality
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