Asia

New bridge improves livelihoods for Cambodian villages

 

Delivering a baby is strenuous enough, but imagine spending two hours on a motorbike, a ferry and a rickshaw just to get to the nearest health centre to give birth.

That’s what happened to 26-year old So phorn when she delivered her first baby three years ago in Cambodia.

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Timorese organize Parliamentary elections

An estimated 600 thousand people in Timor-Leste turned out on the 7th of July to make their voices heard in the 2012 Parliamentary vote.

The polling started in the wee hours of the morning throughout the country. Gerry Adams reports.

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Hand, foot and mouth disease kills more than 50 children in Cambodia

The mystery illness that has killed at least 52 children in Cambodia since April has been diagnosed as hand, foot and mouth disease ,according to the World Health Organization.

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Bangladesh promotes alternative energy with help from the ILO

Rural areas in Bangladesh are “going green” with help from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the government of Australia.

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Preserving wildlife and saving elephants in India

Elephants are revered in Indian culture. But a group of elephants in the town of Assam in north India are causing trouble by destroying crops and even houses.

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Children still at increased risk in northwest Pakistan

Since the beginning of the year, more than 240,000 people – over half of them children – have been registered as displaced from Khyber Agency, a tribal area in volatile north-west Pakistan.

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