Asia
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US-CHINA: Leading Think Tank Urges Naval Build-Up in South China Sea
Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) – While much of the world’s attention has been focused on U.S.-Iranian tensions over…
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SRI LANKA: Female Unemployment Rises With Education
Amantha Perera COLOMBO, Jan 10 (IPS) – Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying…
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China Greets Gloomy New Year
Analysis by Antoaneta Becker LONDON, Jan 9 (IPS) – For much of last year world politicians and market watchers dreamed…
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TAIWAN: Poll Will Decide Nuclear Plant’s Fate
Dennis Engbarth TAIPEI, Jan 7 (IPS) – Voters in Taiwan’s upcoming presidential and national legislative elections will also decide the…
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North Korea on the Verge of a New Era?
Analysis by John Feffer WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (IPS) – For the last two decades, U.S. administrations have come in like…
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JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Dec 22 (IPS) – Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened…
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PAKISTAN: In Arms Against Saints
Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Dec 21 (IPS) – The Taliban have destroyed schools, bombed music shops and carried out gruesome executions…
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INDIA: ‘Rape’ Stands in the way of Love
Sana Altaf SRINAGAR, Dec 19 (IPS) – A few days after his wedding in 2008, Imran* was thrown behind bars…
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Chinese Village Besieged After Protests
Correspondents – IPS/Al Jazeera DOHA, Dec 15 (IPS) – A standoff between villagers and police is continuing in southern China,…
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Experts: Long road ahead as crippled Japanese reactors mark milestone
By the CNN Wire Staff December 16, 2011 — Updated 0305 GMT (1105 HKT) (CNN) — Japanese authorities are expected…
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