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Paraguayan Radio Station Buses Internet To The Barrios

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

'I want my own computer so that I can talk to my cousins who live in Italy,' says eight-year-old Camila Ojeda, sitting in front of a computer monitor on a bus that acts as a mobile cybercafé in the Paraguayan capital.

Will 2014 World Cup Take Football From Brazil's Masses?

Monday, February 06, 2012

The lack of transparency in the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is raising concerns over the social implications of hosting the football championship and fears that the country's most democratic and popular sport will only be accessible to the wealthy.

India-Pakistan: Food Heals Historic Hostility

Friday, February 03, 2012

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.

Laos-Culture: ASEAN Attempts to Build on a Shared Language: Music

Thursday, February 02, 2012

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.

India Weighs Social Media Curbs

Thursday, February 02, 2012

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.

Brazil Deploys 'junior Firefighters' To Snuff Out Dengue

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

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.

Radio Static For Ghana’S Community Stations

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority.

Uganda: Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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.

Pakistan-India: Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite

Sunday, January 29, 2012

'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.

The Ancient Wither In New Iraq

Sunday, January 29, 2012

'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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