2005 Asia

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Chinese hold protest leader, land activist. Woman sought to stop confiscation of farmers' land for development.  Edward Cody Washington Post December 24, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.) In Chinese uprisings, peasants find new allies. Protesters gain help of veteran activists.  Edward Cody Washington Post November 26, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Aid begins arriving in quake zone   BBC News October 10, 2005 (You will leave this site.)

Photo: BBC: At the Vasavya Mahila Mandali home for vulnerable  women and children in the city of Vijayavada in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, 23-year-old Nagmani clutches her five-year-old daughter in her lap. Neither smiles. The doctors say both of them are traumatized after their in-laws threw them out of their house after Nagmani's husband died of AIDS.

Indian women face peril of HIV  Madeleine Morris
BBC News, Andhra Pradesh September 21, 2005 (You will leave this sit.)

At least some Chinese officials made couples get abortions and sterilizations, Chinese government admits  BBC News  September 21, 2005 (You will leave this site.)  Chinese seize activist opposed to family planning policies  Philip P. Pan Washington Post September 8, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

A Chinese city's rage at the rich and powerful: beating of student sparks riot, looting  Edward Cody  Washington Post August 1, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo, other U.S. firms help Chinese government "filter" what Chinese citizens can read on the Internet (this article may be "filtered" too! due to the excellent services U.S. firms are providing!)  Anne Applebaum Washington Post  July 20, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Thailand has announced it will offer anti-retroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS to all 500,000 infected Thais, at virtually no cost to the patient  Tony Cheng BBC News  July 15, 2005 (You will leave this site.)

Freed Slaves Rebuild Their Lives in India   Sanjoy Majumder BBC News May 11, 2005 (You will leave this site.)

:Photo: BBC

The now-freed rice mill workers worked 19 hour shifts for a total of three cents

Bombay Moves to Push Out the Poor: Slums Are Razed as Plans Envisage Reinvented City  Rama Lakshmi  Washington Post May 12, 2005 (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

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