Asia
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....
As dengue fever sweeps India, a slow response stirs experts’ fears
NEW DELHI — An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge the scope of a problem that experts say is threatening hundreds of millions of people, not just in India but around the world....
Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese leader
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,” the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year....
‘Mullah Radio’ believed to be behind attack on Pakistani schoolgirl
The Taliban leader who apparently ordered the assassination of a Pakistani schoolgirl last week may not be well-known outside the remote, picturesque Swat Valley. But there he is infamous for his long campaign against female education....
Rural India marches on Delhi over landless poor
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Taliban gun down girl who spoke up for rights
KARACHI, Pakistan — At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by giving voice to her dreams. As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and ...
Cambodia: Rural poor lose out on land deals
Land governance policies in Asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say....
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