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South East Asia

Farmer Kills 83,000 Rats And Wins Color TV

Telegraph | Ben Leach | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Poverty, South East Asia, Crops, Agriculture, Farmers, Food, Pests, Rats, Ministry of Agriculture, Green News

Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a colour television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South ...

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What's Your Name? Dunce? Bong? Bum?

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: The Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino, South East Asia, Imelda Marcos, Noy Noy Aquino, Nicknames, Joseph Estrada, Noy-Noy-Aquino, Living News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

In the Philippines, everyone seems to have some kind of all-purpose nickname that long ago rendered their real name obsolete. Politicians with names like Joker, Boy, Butch and Ping are commonplace.

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Moment of Truth In Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Southeast Asia, Africa, FSU

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Negotiation, Holocaust, Afghanistan, Afghan War, War, Sri Lanka, Violence, Iran, Eisenhower, South East Asia, Peace, Pbama, President, Religion, Mcchrystal, Military Industrial Complex, Burma, Africa, Former Soviet Union, Israel, Sustainable Communities, Realpolitik, Global Emergency, Nietzsche, World News
Stephen C. Rose

In all these situations, violence is active or incipient. In all of them, there is no solution being proposed that promises an end to the prospect of more of the same.

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Cambodia's Rat Trade With Vietnam Booming (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

Read More: Video, South East Asia, Vietnam Rats, Swine Flu, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cambodia Rats, World News

Many Asian countries are consuming rat meat as a less expensive and more plentiful alternative to pork. Cambodia villagers who gather the rodents hav...

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Sri Lanka Rejects Tamil Tigers Ceasefire Offer

Al Jazeera | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, South Asia, Sri Lanka Civil War, Civil War, Truce, Sri Lanka, South East Asia, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Tamil Tigers Truce, Tamil Tigers Ceasefire, Asia, Sri Lanka Ceasefire, Ltte, Sri Lanka Rebels, Tamil Rebels, Sri Lanka Truce, World News

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger fighters have announced that they are ready to comply with international calls for a ceasefire, but they would not lay down t...

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Khmer Rouge Prison Torturers Finally Put On Trial

The Independent | Toby Green | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: South East Asia, Pol Pot, The Independent, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Asia, Torture, World News

Beneath the shade of spreading branches in the courtyard of Tuol Sleng prison, Chum Mei slipped off his sandals and demonstrated how Khmer Rouge tortu...

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