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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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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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Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime
By Daniel Sitole
NAKURU, Kenya - Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
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Brazil Deploys "Junior Firefighters" to Snuff Out Dengue
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro is unveiling a battery of creative tactics to engage the population in the battle against dengue fever, which is threatening to reach unprecedented epidemic proportions as a new virus strain hits Brazil.
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UGANDA
Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War
By Andrew Green*
GULU, Uganda - Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda.
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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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The Ancient Wither in New Iraq
By Karlos Zurutuza
BASRA - "I’d say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish." Anxiety about the future of his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid, chairman of Basra’s Mandaean Council.
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BRAZIL
Community Radio Flourishes Online
By Fabíola Ortiz*
RIO DE JANEIRO - Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
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CAMEROON
Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People
By Ngala Killian Chimtom
YAOUNDE - When Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced that the 50th anniversary of the reunification of French and British Cameroon will take place later this year, it resurrected bitter feelings among Anglophone Cameroonians who say they do not feel like equal partners with their Francophone counterparts.
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MALAWI
Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - A campaign to stop people buying merchandise from street vendors is gaining momentum in Malawi’s main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu after the small-scale traders went on a rampage undressing women and girls wearing trousers, leggings, shorts and mini-skirts.
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CHINA
Dragon Drags the World In
By Antoaneta Becker
LONDON - Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about the precarious nature of Dragon years don’t hold court, and 2012 will arguably mark the largest by far Chinese New Year celebrations in many world capitals and major cities.
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Mayans Demand Voice in "Doomsday Tourism" Boom
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The indigenous people of southeast Mexico are demanding to be included in the official programmes planned for 2012 to take advantage of the world's interest in the "Mayan prophecy", while at the same time fearing a "doomsday tourism" that could damage and contaminate their sacred sites.
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THAILAND
Malay-Muslim Insurgency - Lessons Learnt
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists.
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CHINA
Building a Cultural Front Against the West
By Antoaneta Becker
LONDON - President Hu Jintao of China made headlines in the early days of the new year saying China and the West were engaged in an escalating culture war, and calling on Chinese people to strengthen cultural production to defend themselves against the assault.
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GUATEMALA
For the Maya, the World Isn't Ending – the Environment Is
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world's natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn.
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