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MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?

US-IRAN: Debate Over Military Action Against Iran Gains Steam

MIDEAST: How to Check Both Iran and Israel

POLITICS: What Will China Do With Its Veto?

U.S.: Nuke Plants Back in Vogue, as Climate Bill Stalls

POLITICS: Sri Lanka Locks Horns with UN over Experts’ Panel

POLITICS: Sri Lanka, Britain Spar Again Over Tigers

DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: NGOs Brace for Tighter Gov’t Control

SRI LANKA: Post-Election Protests Fail to Get Wide Support

RIGHTS: Sri Lanka’s Election Aftermath – Media Under Attack

A WIN-WIN PLAN FOR ICELAND, BRITAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS
By Hazel Henderson

MOSCOW AND HAVANA: FRIENDS FOREVER?
By Leonardo Padura

THE DECLINE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
By Ignacio Ramonet

TURKEY: DEEPENING DEMOCRACY OR NEW AUTHORITARIANISM?
By Ilter Turan

CHINA'S NEOCOLONIALISM
By Walden Bello

VIETNAM: Reports of Child Abuse A Wake-up Call for Parents, Gov't
By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Vietnamese parents think of day care centres and kindergartens as safe, happy places to leave their children in, given the pressures of work and harder times. But they are no longer so sure now, after a series of incidents about mistreatment of young children that has shocked the public.
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ASIA: Religious Advocates Heed the Call of New Media
By Lynette Lee Corporal - Asia Media Forum
BANGKOK - Not even religious advocates and leaders and can say no to the power of online media, whose call they are heeding in order to spread various messages of spirituality.
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POLITICS: Sri Lanka Locks Horns with UN over Experts’ Panel
By Amantha Perera
COLOMBO - The war of words between the Sri Lankan government and the United Nations has begun all over again, this time over the creation of an experts’ panel on the island’s human rights record.
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SINGAPORE: As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
By Stanislaus Jude Chan
SINGAPORE - An unfamiliar sight in Singapore – that of vehicles with foreign licence plates filling the car park – meets visitors at the basement of the city-state’s first casino, which opened nearly a month ago.
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CAMBODIA: Rape Victims Need Better Protection from New Penal Code
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Cambodia’s new penal code, which comes into force later this year, should be accompanied by stronger law enforcement measures if the country’s women and girls are to be better protected from rape, says the global rights lobby Amnesty International (AI).
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MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
By Bhuwan Sharma - Asia Media Forum
KATHMANDU - The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship.
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DEVELOPMENT-SRI LANKA: Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara’s days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks.
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RIGHTS: Burmese Rape Survivors Speak Out
By Sabina Zaccaro*
UNITED NATIONS - "Seven Burmese military soldiers attacked me and three of my friends," said Chang Chang, from the northern Kachin State of Burma.
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THAILAND: Migrant Worker Law Hits Hurdle as 500,000 ‘Disappear’
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s labour ministry is on the hunt for half a million migrant workers from neighbouring Burma who have gone underground rather than join a new foreign workers’ programme, one that some critics have described as a "confusing" initiative.
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POLITICS: Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. Information War
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea was a central element in the overall impression built up in February that Marja was a major strategic objective, more important than other district centres in Helmand.
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INDIA: No Stopping Reserved Seats for Women in Parliament
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - With assured backing from India's main opposition groups, the ruling Congress party hopes to see voted through in the upper house of Parliament Monday a bill reserving 33 percent of seats in national and provincial legislatures for women.
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Q&A: 11.8 Seconds That Broke Taboos for Women
Zofeen Ebrahim interviews NASEEM HAMEED, the Pakistani sprinter who is South Asia’s fastest woman.
KARACHI - Dressed in an abaya (long, loose gown worn by women to cover their dress) and a headscarf, Naseem Hameed cannot be recognised as she alights from a crowded, rickety public bus to reach her destination – the sports stadium.
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VIETNAM: War Movie with Peace Theme Seeks to Heal Wounds
By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - A Vietnamese film that is vying for an Oscar this month offers a glimpse into how Vietnam and the United States are healing decades-old war wounds, as well as how that war still generates emotional debate today.
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