Bangladesh, India, Pakistan vulnerable to climate change
A new global ranking of climate change finds most Asian countries including Bangladesh, India, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan will face the greatest risks to their populations, ecosystems and business environments. The index rates 16 countries as ‘extreme risk,’ including nations that represent new Asian economic power and possess significant forecasted growth. The highest risk categories [...]
Dancing in detention: crime and punishment in the Philippines
One of the biggest viral hits on the Internet to date stars 1500 inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines, dancing to Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit Thriller. Clad in their identical orange prison uniforms the inmates of this maximum security prison have become unlikely stars of Youtube with their version of [...]
10th Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict
On 11 May the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict of the United Nations issued the Annual Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict. Each year the report is published to lists those parties involved in the recruitment of children in armed conflict, as well and use, kill [...]
No longer ‘In the Bottle’? LGBT rights in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
Malaysia’s Women’s Minister Last week 66 young boys in the conservative largely Muslim state of Terengganu, Malaysia, were sent to a special ‘re-education’ camp for displaying signs of effeminacy which if left ‘unchecked’, state official argued, could “reach the point of no return”. In other words they could ‘become’ gay or transsexual. Blog this! Bookmark [...]
Fake says the BBC- Regarding the Nuclear Radiation Rumors in Asia
The BBC World News Service through its official website has denied the rumors regarding the fake text message and email warning to people regarding the radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant. In its latest update the news service, denies any sort of involvement or release of any sort information regarding the radiation by its staff [...]
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