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POLITICS: Cambodia, Vietnam Differ from Laos in Cluster Bombs Ban
- Inter Press Service
On a windy morning in southern Laos in November, a team of deminers built a makeshift bunker out of sandbags and piled the barrier around a tiny explosive.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Indonesia’s Forests Loom As Green Gold
- Inter Press Service
All eyes are on Indonesia and its forest policy as climate- change negotiations continue in the upcoming global talks in Mexico, against the prospect of billions of dollars flowing from the planet’s major polluters to the developing world to slow global warming.
HAITI: Anger Erupts at U.N. as Cholera Toll Nears 1,000
- Inter Press Service
'People are going to take the body to MINUSTAH to show them what they did,' Jean-Luc Surfin told IPS by phone as riots erupted against Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping force on Monday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien.
Latin America at Forefront of War on Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
Latin America and the Caribbean are taking firm steps against the use of tobacco with the adoption of no smoking laws, bans on advertising, and graphic pictorial warnings on cigarette packets.
AFRICA: New Drugs To Speed TB Treatment
- Inter Press Service
Researchers are testing a new combination of tuberculosis drugs on patients in South Africa which they are hoping will shorten the treatment term of the disease to six months.
Q&A: Community Radio Stations — Key Players in Expanding Democracy
- Inter Press Service
Chilean journalist María Pía Matta, a feminist and staunch believer that communication is a universal right based on freedom of expression, is the new president of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).
SRI LANKA: Death Sentence Highlights Risks That Migrant Workers Face
- Inter Press Service
When a relative approached Mohamed Nafeek in 2005 to explore the possibility of sending his eldest daughter, Rizana, to the Middle East as a domestic worker, the family thought its luck had finally turned for the better.
PHILIPPINES: When A Typhoon Comes, Turn to Twitter
- Inter Press Service
Disaster time is social networking time for a growing number of humanitarian agencies, weather agencies, volunteers and individuals in the Philippines, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.
BURMA: After Suu Kyi’s Release, Dangerous Time Sets In
- Inter Press Service
A dilapidated colonial villa on the banks of the Inya Lake in Rangoon, Burma’s largest city, has regained its identity as a home — instead of a prison — following the Saturday release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the icon of the military-ruled country’s democracy movement.
POLITICS-BURMA: Emotions Peak As Suu Kyi Is Freed
- Inter Press Service
Some were smiling, many were crying and others were shouting, but emotions overflowed among the hundreds of Burmese who had been keeping vigil for the latest release from house arrest of the country’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Syi.
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