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NEPAL: Dependence on Rice Adds to Food Crisis
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KATHMANDU, Aug 29 (IPS) - Every year, around June, people living in the impoverished western half of this mountainous country suffer from food scarcity. This year was no different, except that the problem got aggravated by increasing dependence on rice flown in rather than locally grown food grains.
Earlier, people in the mountainous western areas used to grow a variety of grain including finger millet, buckwheat and barley, but the situation changed due to lack of productive land, loss of farming skills and knowledge and changing dietary habits.
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KANDAL, Cambodia, Apr 9 (IPS) - Im Vandang, a former solider turned fisherman, is not sure why there are less fish in the Mekong River, but he knows the situation is getting serious.
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By Jaime Lim
BANGKOK, Jan 27 (The Asian Eye) - There is a lot of coverage about migration in Asia, including in the Mekong region, but a lot of it tends to be negative and stereotypes migrants as the cause of problems in society.
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BANGKOK, Jan 19 (The Asian Eye/IPS Asia-Pacific) - The Korean superstar RAIN was roped in by the Christian relief group World Vision last year to help promote awareness of HIV/AIDS, especially among the youth. Over in Fiji, people living with HIV can get internship opportunities at the World Council of Churches Office in the Pacific (WCC).
AUSTRALIA: Activists Split Over Policy on Japanese Whaling
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MELBOURNE, Dec 26 (IPS) - As Australia continues to call on Japan to abandon its whaling program, leading environmental groups are divided in their response to the government’s plan to stop Japanese whaling.
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Internet: Information Weapon in Burma
By Lynette Lee Corporal
BANGKOK, Sep 28 (The Asian Eye) - In sharp contrast to the lack of information during the 1988 military crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Burma, streams of graphic accounts of the biggest uprising in two decades continue to come from within the country, aided by technology and the Internet.
This has also seen something of a reversal of roles in providing information from a country that for many years has taken great pains to limit easy access to the Internet and mobile telephones.
ASIAN EDITORIALS: Silence is Loud
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BANGKOK, Sep 27 (The Asian Eye) - Silence reflects a conspirator's guilt, said the English-language daily 'The Bangkok Post' in its Thursday editorial. Where is ASEAN? asks the 'Jakarta Post'. 'We are not like China,' argues 'The Times of India'.
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Crackdown on Monks Underway
RANGOON, Sep 26 (The Asian Eye) - For days it has been the talk of many -- that an attack by Burma's police on protesting monks would mark a turning point in the ongoing acts of defiance against the military regime.