Asia
Woman dies after gang rape that galvanized India
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....
Indian women march: “That girl could have been any one of us”
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
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India wakes up to child malnutrition ‘shame,’ begins to make progress
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Getting polio campaigns back on track (analysis)
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 they are protecting children — are gunned down in...
Dangers on the streets of India, shape lives, stifle dreams of country’s young women
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How real are Myanmar’s reforms?
The visit of US President Barack Obama to Myanmar on 19 November has renewed international interest in the country’s democratic reforms, but also skepticism about their impact on the lives of ordinary Burmese....
Pakistan polio drive suspended after 8 health workers killed by extremists (video)
The UN has suspended its polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan following more attacks on health workers involved in the programme....
Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal
Levels of wasting - acute malnutrition, or low weight-to-height ratio - hardly changed from 2006 to 2011, according to the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2011 (DHS)....
Opposition to labor camps widens in China
BEIJING — It is hard to say exactly which “subversive” sentiments drew the police to Ren Jianyu, who posted them on his microblog last year, although “down with dictatorship” and “long live democracy” stand out....
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