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    Bangladesh Mother and son photo by Feed the Future

    FACT SHEET: Asia and the Pacific

    2022 Asia and the Pacific Facts and Statistics

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    Asia Hunger in the News

    Read the latest news and analysis about Asia and the Pacific below.

Big budgets, little oversight in war zones

by Scott Higham, Jessica Schulberg and Steven Rich Washington Post May 4, 2014

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Hindu devotees bathed in the polluted waters of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Millions of pilgrims bathe along Varanasi’s ancient riverfront, but a stream of human waste flows directly into the river just above the bathing ghats, steps leading down to the river. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/New York Times

Poor sanitation in India may affect well-fed children with malnutrition

by Gardiner Harris New York Times July 13, 2014

SHEOHAR DISTRICT, India — He wore thick black eyeliner to ward off the evil eye, but Vivek, a tiny 1-year-old living in a village of mud huts and diminutive people, had nonetheless fallen victim to India’s great scourge of malnutrition....

Bangladesh, with its low elevation and severe tropical storms, is among the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, though it has contributed little to the emissions that are driving it. Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen/New York Times

Borrowed time on disappearing land: Facing rising seas, Bangladesh confronts the consequences of climate change

by Gardiner Harris New York Times March 28, 2014

DAKOPE, Bangladesh — When a powerful storm destroyed her riverside home in 2009, Jahanara Khatun lost more than the modest roof over her head. In the aftermath, her husband died and she became so destitute that she sold her son and daughter into bonded servitude. And she may lose yet more....

Bangladesh is a rare Muslim-majority democracy with a growing economy. But the country is at risk as a prolonged political feud continues to generate violence. Photo: A.M. Ahad/Associated Press

Bangladesh’s political unrest threatens economic gains, democracy

by Anne Gowan Washington Post March 22, 2014

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Poor state of India’s food subsidies

by Manu Joseph New York Times March 4, 2014

NEW DELHI — The latest economic survey of India contains cheerful prose. India’s immediate future is “propitious.”But there are grim bits, too. If the rich reach the third chapter of Volume 1, they may groan with exasperation, because it addresses subsidies for the poor. The chapter is title...

An employee of the Hattigor Tea Estate, which is owned by Amalgamated Plantations, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam in December. Photo: Himanshu Khagta/New York Times

Hope, and homes, crumbling on many Indian tea plantations

by Max Bearak New York Times February 13, 2014

NAHORANI TEA ESTATE, India — For a century and a half, Madhu Munda’s forebears toiled on the same tea plantation that she lives and works on now. Belonging to central Indian tribes brought to what is now the northeastern state of Assam by the British in the mid-19th century, they and millions of...

Akhtar, 68, carries a stack of branches through Margalla Hills National Park in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 18.  Photo: Tim Craig/Washington Post

Energy shortages force Pakistanis to scavenge for wood, threatening tree canopy

by Tim Craig Washington Post February 1, 2014

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Ramesh Iqbal lives in one of the Pakistani capital’s middle-class neighborhoods and attends college. But on a recent day, he and two friends emerged from a wooded area, their arms full of the logs and branches they had gathered to warm their homes...

For South Korea’s old, a return to poverty as Confucian filial piety weakens

by Chico Harlan Washington Post January 21, 2014

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Indian rights groups say Khobragade case shows callousness toward domestic workers

by Rama Lakshmi Washington Post January 12, 2014

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Politicians, Muslim scholars join vaccination effort as violence hinders Pakistan polio drive

by Pamela Constable Washington Post January 11, 2014

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