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Download Burma has one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, as well as other minerals. It is also rich in timber, agricultural products and precious stones.
But Burma is among the poorest countries in South East Asia with almost one third of its 50 million people living in poverty.
This situation has forced more than four million Burmese across the boarder into Thailand, ...
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Under the repressive military regime in Burma people have become suspicious and a fearful of people in uniform.....this includes police and fire fighters.
But as MoeMoe reports from Yangon, the brave acts of some firefighters follow a deadly explosion in the capital late last year have helped changed people perspections...
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The Indian government plans to roll out a scheme where generic medicines will be provided free of charge through public hospital and health facilities across the country .
The sc...
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More than ten months on from the meltdowns at Fukushima, Japan is now confronting more fallout from the nuclear crisis.
The country's tourism sector is still struggling to convince foreigners t...
Download Meri Yulanda was ripped from her father’s arms by the tsunami that devastated Aceh in 2004 which killed 230,000 people.
Tens of thousands of bodies were never recovered and many families never ...
Download The sea is steadily eating into the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. The 20,000 square kilometre forest delta stretches across Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Download You’d be mistaken if you thought tech-savvy South Koreans only worshiped their Samsung smartphones or Hyundai cars. Many are believers in an animistic spirituality that goes back thousands of ...
Download Many rural areas of Pakistan’s troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the tribal belt still lack access to modern ways of entertainment.
Hard line militant groups have exploited these closed ...
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Indonesian police ‘torture’ children: Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has found that two boys who died in police custody were tortured to death by police officers. The boys were arrested for petty thief in West Sumatra and found two days later dead in the police station. The police claim the boys hung themselves, but have admitted after intense public pressure that the boys were tortured while in custody. As Citra Dyah Prastuti reports their death is the latest in a string of cases of police abuse in Indonesia. She speaking with Setra Linda, the sister of the boys who died.
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