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Dayasurabhi Balaji | Apr 29 2008
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The poppy cultivation is the most lucrative trade in Afghanistan, inspite of the legal ban on the crop cultivation and risks involved in business. It is one of the largest contributors of drug exports throughout the world and the recent boom in opium...
Arpita Mukherjee | Apr 29 2008
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China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued in poverty and illiteracy. For 3.5 Yuan ($0.50) thousands of Chinese children are...
Balbhadra Rana | Apr 18 2008
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The crisis in Zimbabwe is deepening. The Mugabe governemnt is not allowing the declaration of presidential election results because it is rumoured that he is trailing behind MDC leader, Tsvangirai. What is adding fuel to the fire is that China has...
Balbhadra Rana | Apr 16 2008
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The Tibet protests had initially unnerved the Chinese government. With the Beijing Olympics just a few months away, it could not throw in battalions of PLA soldiers with orders to crush the rebellion brutally. Instead, it is dealing with the rebellion...
Dayasurabhi Balaji | Apr 12 2008
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After years of fighting the Taliban regime and trying to restore order in Afghanistan, American and British troops are largely unsuccessful. It is not the case only in Afghanistan, but is also true of the other places which America had invaded, namely...
Anindita | Apr 12 2008
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For 240 years Nepal has been under the rule of the Shah Dynasty, revered as incarnations of the Hindu God Vishnu. In 2001, the then deranged Crown Prince killed most of the Royal Family in a shooting, including his father (King Birendra), and then...
Arpita Mukherjee | Apr 5 2008
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As people from every corner of the globe are preparing themselves to be a part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to be held in August this year amidst the slogan – One World, One Dream, some dissidents are urging the global community to boycott this...
Balbhadra Rana | Apr 4 2008
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The Americans are facing a lot of headaches in Afghanistan. Karzai has not prospered beyond being the Mayor of Kabul. The various warlords in the US propped government are secretly at each other's throats. The other NATO allies are not coughing up...
Neha | Apr 4 2008
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The country is moving to modernization but at a slow pace. Bhutan is looking towards more advancement, but with that it does not want to loose its originality. There are few examples which indicate that now people are becoming aware and are looking...
Balbhadra Rana | Apr 3 2008
tibet unrests spreads to muslim seperatists
One of the reasons why China is panicking over the Tibetan independence 'genie' popping up again is that it has over the years kept many such genies captured in bottles. The Uighurs Muslims in Xingjiang province is another restive group in the...

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on Taleban targetting all roads... Afghanistan is Taliban’s playground. They know every nook and cranny there. Even...
on Taleban targetting all roads... Yes, Jaiyant, I can’t even imagine how the days and lives of truck drivers must be...
on Taleban targetting all roads... The US will of course leave any country it invades, like a greedy wolf that kills but...
on British find it impossible to... Death and terror don’t spare the desert ’oasis’ either...
on British find it impossible to... It’s strange, I have seen footage of Helmand and it is such a beautiful place with...

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