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Nepalese mothers want news of missing sons

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:58:01 +0100

NAUBISE, Nepal (Reuters) - Five years ago on a warm August night loud thuds on the door altered Tirtha Kumari Bhujel's life forever.

Smuggling to Iran rife in dangerous Gulf waters

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:51:42 +0100

KHASAB, Oman (Reuters) - Smugglers pile boxes high on their speedboats, covering them with tarpaulin before zipping off into the sunset on the short but dangerous journey across the strategic Strait of Hormuz from Oman to Iran.

India's green revolutionary is back in spotlight

Mon, 12 May 2008 02:26:00 +0100

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one.

India magazine industry thriving as big players moving in

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:12:57 +0100

MUMBAI (Reuters) - When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine 'Vogue' in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages.

Battling to take death out of birth in Africa

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:10:22 +0100

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Lying on a sagging mattress and wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should have been afraid of giving birth to her first child, now lying in a crib near her in a hospital in south Sudan.

Bulgaria's image suffers as crime flourishes

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:55:00 +0100

SOFIA (Reuters) - Little over a year after joining the rich boys' club, European Union newcomer Bulgaria has seen its reputation hit a low, marred by its failure to tame chronic graft and crime.

Kenya's nomads feel pain of food prices

Fri, 09 May 2008 02:51:36 +0100

EL RAM, Kenya (Reuters) - It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.

Resenting austerity, Turks want no new IMF deal

Fri, 09 May 2008 02:43:02 +0100

ANKARA (Reuters) - Consensus is rare in Turkey, but no one seems to like the IMF.

New health woes for China

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:07:18 +0100

BEIJING (Reuters) - Evening exercise classes at the Nirvana fitness centre in Beijing are in high demand these days as young professionals whose mothers once counted ration cards seek to stay svelte despite lavish lunches.

IOC eyes healthy profits from Beijing Games

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:29:42 +0100

ATHENS (Reuters) - From its dangerously empty coffers in the late 1970s to the multi-billion-dollar revenues from the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has managed a remarkable commercial transformation of its prime product, the Olympic Games.