Asia

Woman dies after gang rape that galvanized India

by Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012

NEW DELHI — As protests grew in India Saturday over the death of a young woman who was raped in Delhi this month by several men in a moving bus, police said her attackers would be charged with murder....

A candlelight gathering after the cremation on Sunday blocked a road in New Delhi, the city where the Dec. 16 rape occurred. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Indian women march: “That girl could have been any one of us”

by Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012

NEW DELHI — Neha Kaul Mehra says she was only 7 years old the first time she was sexually harassed. She was walking to a dance class in an affluent neighborhood of New Delhi when a man confronted her and began openly masturbating....

Children of China’s ‘Immortals’ are new capitalist elite

by Bloomberg News Washington Post December 26, 2012

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Indian schoochildren receive a free midday meal at a government school in Jammau.  Photo: Washington Post

India wakes up to child malnutrition ‘shame,’ begins to make progress

by Simon Denyer Washington Post December 26, 2012

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Getting polio campaigns back on track (analysis)

by Donald G McNeil Jr New York Times December 24, 2012

How in the world did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that t...

Dangers on the streets of India, shape lives, stifle dreams of country’s young women

by Associated Press Washington Post December 20, 2012

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