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China Taking Over

India & Pakistan : Siblings/Foes

Anwar Ibrahim

Best Reporting on Environment of 2008 Prem Bhatia Award

Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their War on Iran

U.S. Group Urges "More Credible" Military Threat Against Iran

U.S.: Growing Elite Opposition to Military Option Against Iran

EU-IRAN: New Sanctions Aimed at Averting Wider Conflict

U.S.: Worries Mount over Blowback of Israeli Attack on Iran

SRI LANKA: Poorest Still Go Hungry

SRI LANKA: Peace Brings Little for the War-Disabled

SRI LANKA: Road Signs Indicate Better Times

SRI LANKA: Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine

Sri Lankan Rights Abuses Obstruct Trade Efforts with Canada

GLOBAL SUPPORT PEAKS FOR NO NUKES
By Jonathan Frerichs

WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS IN DAVOS?
By Johan Galtung

CLIMATE EMERGENCY
By Ignacio Ramonet

THE UNITED STATES AND THE DEFEAT OF VICTORY
By Joaquin Roy

IS CHINA STILL A DEVELOPING COUNTRY?
By Martin Khor

Lawmakers, "Experts" Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America
Analysis by Charles Davis
WASHINGTON - Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential U.S. lawmaker said Thursday.
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INDIA-PAKISTAN
Food Heals Historic Hostility
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
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Early End to U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan Draws Cheers, Jeers, Confusion
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion, from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war here.
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Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain – Part 2
By Kanya D'Almeida
WASHINGTON - While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the Indian small farmer, who stands to lose even more at the hands of the world's biggest commercial food retailer.
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LAOS-CULTURE
ASEAN Attempts to Build on a Shared Language: Music
By Kalinga Seneviratne
VIENTIANE - A landmark concert featuring artistes from eight of the ten South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) took place here on Jan. 21, in an effort to build a regional community through the common language of music.
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BANGLADESH
Coup Bid Reveals Extremism Within Army
Analysis by Naimul Haq
DHAKA - Bangladesh’s army has won paludits as leading United Nations peacekeepers, but the January coup attempt against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has exposed lurking religious extremism within its ranks.
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India Weighs Social Media Curbs
By Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI - After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.
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Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their War on Iran
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.
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U.S. Group Urges "More Credible" Military Threat Against Iran
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The administration of President Barack Obama should take steps to make threats of a possible U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran more credible, according to the fourth in a series of studies released here Wednesday by a 13-man "bipartisan" task force dominated by Iran hawks.
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Pakistan Denies "Intimate" Taliban Links
By Correspondents*
DOHA, Qatar - Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power.
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China Looks Both Ways on Iranian Oil
Analysis by Antoaneta Becker
LONDON - China’s response to calls from the West to join an oil embargo penalising Iran for its nuclear programme so far has been to choose the middle course typical of its non-interfering foreign policy of the last 30 years – denouncing sanctions on one hand yet working to protect its national interests on many fronts.
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Indian Retailers on Edge as 800-Pound Gorillas Come Knocking - Part 1
By Kanya D'Almeida
WASHINGTON - Home to over 44 million small retailers, many of them family- owned, neighbourhood stores no bigger than 200 square feet, India is a land renowned for its various "wallas" – small traders who produce, hawk, repair or deliver just about anything you could want at any hour of the day or night.
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Mekong Unquiet Over Contain China Moves
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Six countries that share the Mekong River are being drawn into a development turf war, exposing initiatives by the United States government and its Asian allies – Japan and South Korea – to contain China’s growing influence in the region.
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CHINA
In Chains, And Writing Out
By Emily-Anne Owen
BEIJING - Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, has been placed at the forefront of the fight for human rights in China once again with a new collection of works published in translation this January.
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PAKISTAN-INDIA
Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - "It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain," recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience.
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SRI LANKA In Search of Serendip

UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk

Photos of Armed Children Ignite Scandal in Venezuela

Social Media Saved Africa's Oldest Community Station

Political and Economic Turmoil Threaten Women's Progress

Russia Sticks to Its Guns Against Heavy Hitters Backing Syria

New Rule Puts Brakes on U.S. Public Housing Demolitions

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Malawi's Consumers Have a Right to Fuel and Forex Black Market

Brazil Deepens Strategic Cooperation with Cuba

Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain – Part 2

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