Asia
‘One is enough’: Chinese families lukewarm over easing of one-child policy
Chinese families lukewarm over easing of one-child policy and inevitably put immense strains on the economy in the decades ahead, and on the government’s ability to pay people’s pensions. It is so severe a problem, some experts predict it could threaten the legitimacy...
India’s ‘manual scavengers’ rise up against caste discrimination
Watching Bittal Devi deftly weave threads of different colours into a vibrant patchwork quilt, it’s hard to imagine that this 46-year-old’s hands have spent the better part of their life cleaning toilets.Born in Sava, a village in the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India, Devi is from a comm...
Children starving to death in Pakistan’s drought-struck Tharparkar District
Children are bearing the brunt of the drought in Tharparkar, often the first to fall victim to diarrhoea and pneumonia brought on by malnutrition, Pakistan, Jan 3 2015 (IPS) - The main entrance to the Civil Hospital in Mithi, headquarters of the Tharparkar district in Pakistan’s southern Sindh Pro...
Vaccine aide gunned down in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A health worker supervising a polio vaccination campaign was fatally shot and two others were wounded on Saturday when gunmen opened fire at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, officials said....
Hungry for justice: Social mobilization on the right to food in India
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WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security
A deal between India and the US to end the stalemate over the Bali trade package has raised the possibility of a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes by the end of next year....
WTO seeks efforts for permanent deal on food security.
A deal between India and the US to end the stalemate over the Bali trade package has raised the possibility of a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes by the end of next year....
US-India agreement on stockpiles of food revives a trade deal
MUMBAI, India — India and the United States reached an agreement on Thursday over food stockpiles, removing a major obstacle to a global trade deal that has been stalled for months....
US gives $27 million to help children in Laos eat and learn in school
VIENTIANE - The U.S. Ambassador to Laos PDR, Daniel Clune, announced today that the U.S. government, through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), would support WFP's mid-morning snack and lunch programmes in Laos with US$27 million to assist more than 170,000 children over the next th...
Bangladeshi ‘char dwellers’ in search of higher ground
ahanara Begum, a 35-year-old housewife, is surrounded by thatched-roof homes, all of which are partially submerged by floodwater.Heavy rains throughout the monsoon months, beginning in August, left thousands of people in northern Bangladesh homeless or in dire straits as the mighty Brahmaputra, Dhar...
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