By Mike ThomsonPresenter, Document, Radio 4, BBC Continue reading the main story In today’s Magazine On the prowl with China’s ‘love hunters’ Where the size of your motorcade matters Goodbye, US passport Giving it all up to be a ‘beachcomber’… Continue Reading →
By Q. Isa Daudpota 25 May, 2013 Countercurrents.org Trickle-down economics invariably fails in poor countries. For long-lasting progress, development policies that are bottom-up, those that ‘put the last first’, often succeed. Ideas supportive of this… Continue Reading →
By Amarnath TewaryPatna, Bihar, BBC More than half-a-billion Indians lack access to basic sanitation Most of the cases of rape of women and girls in India’s Bihar state occur when they go out to defecate in the open, police… Continue Reading →
Under-pricing deprives Africa of much-needed money, the report says BBC Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said. Firms that shift profits to lower… Continue Reading →
By RAVI SOMAIYA Published: April 14, 2013, NYT As tensions escalated between North Korea and the world late last month, a small group of students from the prestigious London School of Economics crossed the border into the reclusive country for what… Continue Reading →
BBC News Sheeba Rani has been ostracised by many friends and relatives for marrying Nigerian Sambo Davis Africans staying in and around India‘s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), complain of indiscriminate racism and constant police harassment, reports the BBC’s Zubair Ahmed…. Continue Reading →
Poster by Kamayani Bali Mahabal Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but … do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance flower that you pluck, the water… Continue Reading →
PM Raja Pervez Ashraf is facing corruption allegations BBC Pakistan‘s PM has hailed as “a victory” for democracy the completion of a full term by an elected government for the first time in the country’s history. “No-one will be able… Continue Reading →
Viewers complain that only the ‘terminally thin-skinned’ could be offended by the character BBC said it was edited to suit a family audience to reflect changing attitudes By LAURA COX PUBLISHED: 23:49 GMT, 22 January 2013 | It is the episode of Fawlty… Continue Reading →
The BBC;s Geeta Pandey in Delhi remembers some of the prominent rape cases which made the headlines when they happened, but have now faded from the public memory. There have been widespread protests in India since the 16 December… Continue Reading →
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