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Arakan Army steps up Myanmar’s forgotten conflict 0
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- February 11, 2019
With the world’s eyes on the Rohingya crisis, Buddhists in Rakhine State aim to win sovereignty by force A Mro ethnic women with her child takes refuge at a Buddhist pagoda in Buthidaung township in Rakhine State on Jan. 25 after being displaced by fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar government troops. (Photo by Richard Sargent/AFP) Tibor
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China’s surveillance state: Using technology to shape individual behavior-0
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- February 6, 2019
ucanews.com 6 February 2019 China’s surveillance state: Using technology to shape individual behavior As Chinese Communist Party wants to export its new social control technologies globally, that should worry us The Chinese national flag flies behind security cameras on Tiananmen Square in this file image taken on June 4, 2012, on the 23rd anniversary of
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India’s failing health system hits women hardest State-run hospitals often deny services to poor females, leading to unnecessary deaths 0
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- January 31, 2019
An Indian doctor examines an expectant mother during a health clinic for pregnant women at a hospital in Dhirenpara in Guwahati in this May 2017 file photograph, but many poor Indian women lack access to health services. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP) Umar Manzoor Shah, Srinagar India January 31, 2019 The snowy night of Jan. 17 was a long one for 36-year-old
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China’s diplomatic shield has a price for MyanmarBeijing warns that investment will halt unless Myitsone Dam project is restarted 0
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- January 22, 2019
In this file photo Yangon chief minister Phyo Min Thein (third right) and Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Hong Liang (fourth left) press the bottom during the opening ceremony on the first day of Lunar New Year in Yangon’s Chinatown district on Jan. 28, 2017. Hong is applying pressure to restart the Myitsone Dam project in
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BJP creates caste storm ahead of Indian electionNew law to allow quota benefits for upper-caste people seen as an attempt to appease Hindu majority 0
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- January 22, 2019
Members of the youth wing of India’s ruling BJP party (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha) celebrate in Patna on Jan. 11 after a bill was passed providing for a 10 percent quota for upper castes in government jobs and higher educational institutions. (Photo by IANS) Umar Manzoor Shah, New Delhi India January 22, 2019 The latest move by India’s federal government
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Tibetans get home decor order: Hang Xi, Mao portraitsDalai Lama images removed from temples, monasteries as Communist Party reinforces iconography of its heroes 0
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- January 22, 2019
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has outlawed the worshipping of images of the Dalai Lama and is now forcing Tibetans to hang portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and CCP founder Mao Zedong on their walls. (Photo supplied)Sang Jieja China January 22, 2019 The Chinese government is again restricting Tibetans from worshipping portraits of the Dalai Lama despite protests from
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Rich-poor gap increases in BangladeshSouth Asian country set to record big rise in millionaires to underline unfair distribution of wealth 0
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- January 22, 2019
A Bangladeshi worker loads his rickshaw van near the Buriganga River in Dhaka in this file image. Two global studies say the gap between poor and rich continues to widen in the country. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP) Stephan Uttom and Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka Bangladesh January 22, 2019 The gap between rich and poor people continues to
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All strain and no gain for Bangladeshi tea workers 0
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- January 17, 2019
Despite industry uptick wages remain among worst in world ,while land rights are denied estate laborers A tea worker plucks leaves on an estate in the Sreemangal area of Moulvibazar district in north-eastern Bangladesh in this 2013 file photo. The tea industry has rebounded from a protracted rocky patch but many workers claim they are still mistreated and neglected. (Photo
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Bangladesh PM to hold talks ‘to end political discord’0
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- January 17, 2019
Hasina reportedly plans to meet with other political parties as some refuse to accept results of ‘farcical’ election Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (right) flashes the victory symbol after casting her vote, as her daughter Saima Wazed Hossain (first left) and her sister Sheikh Rehana (second left) look on at a polling station in Dhaka
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China ramps up brainwashing campaign in TibetVideo clip showed backwardness of Communist Party’s bid to instill patriotic fervor via re-education camps and fear 0
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- January 16, 2019
This picture taken on Feb. 28, 2018 shows a Tibetan woman watching a dance during the Great Prayer Festival of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at a monastery in Tibet. The Chinese Communist Party is currently pushing its “Four Emphases and Four Loves” campaign to intensify loyalty to its rule in Tibet. (Photo by Johannes
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Sri Lanka launches new campaign on enforced disappearances 0
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- January 14, 2019
Heartbroken Tamils still seeking answers about missing kin a decade later not sold on OMP’s move to ‘clear up confusion’ Activists and families of the disappeared demonstrate for their loved ones in Colombo in 2018. Tamils have long been demanding accountability for crimes they allege were committed during the nation’s long and bloody civil war. (ucanews.com photo)Quintus
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Beijing tightens its grip on IslamabadDid China convince Pakistan to pay $90 billion for China’s benefit?0
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- January 14, 2019
China’s President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan ahead of their meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November 2018. (Photo by Thomas Peter/AFP)Anders Corr Pakistan The Financial Times revealed on Jan. 1 that China is planning a secret US$2 billion loan to Pakistan to avoid any future
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Muslim clerics denounce radicalism in Pakistan 0
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- January 9, 2019
Declaration by 500 Muslim clerics also recognizes multi-ethnic and multi-religious character of the country Islamist activists beat an effigy representing Asia Bibi — a Pakistani Catholic woman released after spending eight years on death row for blasphemy — in Karachi on Nov. 21, 2018. (Photo by Asif Hassan/AFP) Kamran Chaudhry, Lahore Pakistan January 8, 2019
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No alternatives to resettlement for Rohingya in Rakhine 0
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- January 9, 2019
Internally displaced not allowed to return to their original homes and they still lack basic rights A file image of Rohingya children and elders gather at the Thet Kel Pyin camp in Maynamr’s Rakhine State during the Eid al-Adha celebrations on Aug. 22, 2018. (Photo by Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP) John Zaw, Mandalay Myanmar January 9,
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