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A Pakistani stock broker and stock index board is reflected from a mirror in Karachi Stock Exchange in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Pakistan is also a part of slowdown in world economies while tense situation between Pakistan and the U.S. over the rules of fighting war against terrorism on Pak-Afghan border areas will continue to keep market sentiments depressed, analysts sai
Economy   Finance   IMF   Pakistan   Photos  
Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn
| By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Islamabad's tardiness in naming a finance minister to succeed Shaukat Tarin, who resigned on February 23 to pursue his own business interests, may delay t... (photo: AP / Fareed Khan) Asia Times
 Flood affected women and children queue for food outside a relief camp in Kamrangirchar, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007. More than two weeks of monsoon rains across much of northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal have flooded rivers
Disasters   Nepal   People   Photos   Society  
One-ninth of Nepal faces starvation, UN warns
Kathmandu: One-ninth of Nepal's nearly 27 million population face starvation, the UN warned Wednesday. | Nearly half of Nepal's 75 districts, mainly in the west and mountain regions, are grappling wit... (photo: AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) Samachaar
Agriculture - Sugar Cane farm - India Venezuelan officials take control of 2 sugar mills
| Caracas, March 10: Venezuela’s government seized temporary control of two sugar mills Tuesday, accusing managers of hoarding a basic good and violating the labor rights of employees. | Commerce Mi... (photo: WN / Geeta) The Siasat Daily
Agriculture   Food   Photos   Sugar   Venezuela  
A Bangladeshi man and children rest on a cart after falling sick as they await treatment at Ashasunee village in Shatkhira, 176 kilometers (110 miles) south west of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, May 27, 2009. Children Die of Starvation at Unregistered Refugee Camps in Bangladesh
| Cox’sbazar : Nearly 50 children have died of starvation in the last two months at unregistered refugee camps located outside of the official Kutupalong Burmese Muslim refugee camps in Bangladesh, ... (photo: AP / Pavel Rahman) Narinjara
Bangladesh   Children   Photos   Refugee   Starvation  
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Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March. 9, 2010. Myanmar's ruling junta will appoint the commission that will have final say over the country's first elections in two decades, state-run newspapers announced Tuesday as the country's military rulers began unveiling the laws that will govern this year's balloting. Myanmar election law bars Aung San Suu Kyi from polls
Yangon, March 10 (DPA) | Myanmar's new election laws have barred opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners from contesting polls pl... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win) Deccan Herald
Democracy   Election   Myanmar   Photos   Yangon  
Aung San Suu Kyi, pro-democracy leader of the NLD (National League for Democracy), points during a press conference at her residential compound in Rangoon on Saturday, August 31, 1996. Suu Kyi informed journalists of the stiff sentencing and continued harassment toward NLD members by the Burmese government. Law Bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi From Election
New Election Law Bars Myanmar Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi From Election | Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A new election law issued by Myan... (photo: AP / Richard Vogel) CBS News
Democracy   Elections   Law   Myanmar   Photos  
Anti-Myanmar government protesters hold posters of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest to demand her release in front of the U.N. office in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 22, 2009. 'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar
| By Stanley A Weiss | MANDALAY - In September 1952, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin and Chinese foreign minister Chou Enlai convened an extraordinary meeting to discuss t... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit) Asia Times
China   Foreign Policy   Myanmar   Photos   US  
Shanghai has been a political hub of China since the 20th century. The 1st National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai. In addition, many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s. US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
| By Peter J Brown | The United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) last month held a lengthy hearing on China's activities in Southeast Asia and ... (photo: Creative Commons / Naus) Asia Times
Asian   China   Economy   Photos   US  
Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011 GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
web | JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast ... (photo: IRIN News / Anna Jefferys) IRINnews
Forecast   Photos   Price   Producing   Rice  
Business and Economy Health
Vietnam bank to open branch in Myanmar
Venezuelan officials take control of 2 sugar mills
'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar
US ponders China's Southeast Asian rise
Agriculture - Sugar Cane farm - India
Venezuelan officials take control of 2 sugar mills
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Physicians Travel to Southern Chin State After H1N1 Found
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
Burmese refugees in Bangladesh suffer a shortage of food, ca
Rights group: Myanmar's Rohingya face starvation in Bang
Rice fields in West Africa (file photo) Benin wants to quit importing rice by 2011
GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon"
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Education Human Rights
Global human trafficking news roundup ( March 4, 2010)
YEMEN: Saada schools reopen
EGYPT: H1N1 flu down but not out
Teachers and students increasingly under attack, UNESCO warn
UNODC says human trafficking for the sex trade appears to be getting worse
Global human trafficking news roundup ( March 4, 2010)
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ANALYSIS: So long, ambassador, and thanks for all the cash
Burma publishes new election laws
Bangladesh 'ignoring plight' of starving Burma refug
Mass. human rights doctors group faults Bangladesh on treatm
 Contrasted against giant statues of ancient kings, Myanmar ruling leader Sr. Gen Than Shwe salutes the flag during opening ceremonies of Myanmar Armed Forces day Tuesday, March 28, 2007, in the new capital of Naypyitaw. The new Myanmar capital is located
Burma publishes new election laws
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Mandalay Yangon
'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar
`Precious' in 3-D? Filmmakers predict 3-D dramas
NATPE opens at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas
Grand Opening of Hussong's Mexican Cantina in Mandalay P
Anti-Myanmar government protesters hold posters of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest to demand her release in front of the U.N. office in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 22, 2009.
'Bless you Mr Obama' on Myanmar
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Myanmar election law puts Suu Kyi party in bind
Myanmar election law bars Aung San Suu Kyi from polls
Burma publishes new election laws
Details Near on Long-Awaited Burmese Election
 A man holds up a poster of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as he and others demonstrate in support of pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar outside the Houses of Parliament, London, England, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. (gm1)
Myanmar election law puts Suu Kyi party in bind
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