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1. Pakistan earthquake....three years on

Asian News, Wednesday 8 October 2008
THE devastating natural disaster on 8 October 2005 left devastating memories in our minds.

2. Human trafficking in Bangladesh and beyond

Asian News, Monday 6 October 2008
Dhaka - Sold to a dance bar owner and forced to work in the “flesh trade”, Zarina (whose name has been changed to protect her identity), a 16-year-old girl and daughter of a day labourer from Krishnapur in southeast Bangladesh, was a recent victim of human trafficking. This illegal trade has assumed dangerous proportions in recent years.

3. Seven years after the 'war on terror'

Asian News, Wednesday 24 September 2008
IT is seven years since that terrible day of 11 September, 2001 when terrorists killed 3000 Americans, triggering a massive global response by the United States. As President Bush’s term comes to an end, it is time to assess the prudence of his policies.

4. Action, not lip-service, for Pakistani women

Asian News, Wednesday 24 September 2008
US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson has made it clear that one of the United States’ primary goals in Pakistan is the empowerment of women.

5. India’s most famous world peace leader on UK tour

Asian News, Tuesday 23 September 2008
INDIA'S most famous world peace leader, His Holiness Sri Vasanth Gurudevji has arrived in the UK for the forthcoming Millennium Development Goal and World Peace Festival 2008.

6. Fertility tourism rife in India

Asian News, Wednesday 30 July 2008
The ads are brazen: 'healthy young women - superovulated exclusively for you!'. The fees are half those of UK clinics ('flights and hotel included!'). And the industry is unregulated, leaving doctors free of legal and ethical constraints. No wonder more and more Europeans are going to India for fertility treatment. Raekha Prasad from The Guardian reports

7. Where death by water is part of daily life

Asian News, Monday 26 November 2007
Charles Dickens would have felt at home in the streets of Dhaka. The barefoot children waiting for their mothers and sisters to come home from the textile mills; the chimneys of the brick factories, like a throwback to the pages of Bleak House, vaguely visible in the smog. And the stench.

8. Food dropped for cyclone victims

Asian News, Monday 19 November 2007
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Bangladesh Air Force today started using helicopters to air-drop WFP high energy biscuits to people stranded in inaccessible areas affected by last week's cyclone.

9. Third death in a year at Indian factory that supplies Gap

Asian News, Monday 15 October 2007
The clothing giant Gap has ordered one of its overseas suppliers to overhaul its practices after a garment worker in Bangalore, India, collapsed and later died outside the same factory where a young pregnant worker lost her newborn baby six months ago.

10. The sweatshop high street - more brands under fire

Asian News, Monday 3 September 2007
Two of Britain's major high street retailers launched inquiries last night into allegations that factory workers who make their clothes in India are being paid as little as 13p per hour for a 48-hour week, wages so low the workers claim they sometimes have to rely on government food parcels.
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