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Gunfire From Syria Hits Border Camp In Turkey

Monday, April 09, 2012

Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people.

Radioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans

Monday, April 09, 2012

The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake’ mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has raised public clamour for compensation.

Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?

Saturday, April 07, 2012

With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.

Tajikistan: Using Force to Maintain a Standing Army

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Hunger, unheated barracks, beatings and regular outbreaks of disease: it could be life in a penal colony. But in this case, it describes the existence of a fresh military conscript in Tajikistan.

Climate Change Threatens The Poor In Cities

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

India, like other Asian countries, has focused its climate change adaptation strategies on rural and urban areas while neglecting the urban fringes, say experts.

Arab Spring Brings Some Sour Fruits

Monday, March 26, 2012

Recent shifts in the Middle East and North Africa have presented several economic challenges such as high unemployment, an exodus of migrants from Libya and a reduction of tourism revenues. Given that economic discontent played a vital role in the Arab uprisings, economic growth has become vital to sustain the fruit of revolution.

Can’T Help Helping Refugees

Sunday, March 25, 2012

It’s 10 am on Saturday morning and a group of migrants is clustered round the entrance to the Migrant Clothes Association in the Calais city centre, eating breakfast provided by the association. Inside, the warehouse is stacked with blankets, tents, trainers and clothes. Some of these will be distributed later by the association’s workers.

Myanmar 'reforms' Elude Kachin Refugees

Friday, March 23, 2012

For thousands of ethnic Kachins who fled fighting between government troops and rebels and survived a bitter winter in the refugee camps that dot northern Myanmar (or Burma), another test of survival looms — gale force winds.

Calais Draws More Refugees, And Trouble

Thursday, March 22, 2012

It’s more than two years since French police demolished the migrant squatter camp in Calais known as the Jungle in September 2009. At the time the widely-publicised demolition was hailed by the French and British authorities as a major blow to the smugglers or passeurs who facilitated illegal immigration across the Channel.

Can The Maid Have Boyfriends?

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

A routine announcement by the government of this city-state entitling foreign, female domestic workers to a day off each week has sent their affluent employers into a tizzy.

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