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1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Gender tests give rise to female foeticide

Asian News, Wednesday 29 August 2007
The widespread use of illegal tests to determine the sex of a baby is fuelling a rise of female foeticide cases in India according to social activists.

7. Please help South Asia flood victims

Asian News, Monday 20 August 2007
I am appealing to your readers to join me in supporting Help the Aged in their emergency appeal for the victims of the South Asia Floods.

8. Peace campers evicted from Parliament Square

Asian News, Monday 20 August 2007
The Greater London Authority have erected a 'security' fence around Parliament Square and evicted peace campaigners who were there in support of Brian Haw and his five-year long protest against the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

9. 'You are crushed'

Asian News, Tuesday 31 July 2007
PLANS to hold terrorism suspects without charge for up to 56 days were unveiled by Gordon Brown this week. But do the police really need more powers? Mouloud Sihali, cleared of plotting to spread ricin poison on London's streets, tells Duncan Campbell from The Guardian about his nightmare in detention

10. Hidden racism among professional classes ‘rife’

Asian News, Tuesday 31 July 2007
ETHNIC minority professionals feel they to "have to watch their backs" and not take privileges at work in case they their white counterparts get jealous.
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