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 BANGKOK, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) - "Everything is more expensive," Somkeirt Boonna, a 35-year-old security guard who works in Thailand's capital, told IRIN. | |
 JAKARTA , 24 July 2008 (IRIN) - In a district of the northeastern part of West Java, commercial sex workers are touting for business right outside the mosque. Bandungwangi, a local NGO working against trafficking, says half the women and children it rescues from prostitution in Jakarta come from this district. | |
 COLOMBO, 23 July 2008 (IRIN) - Staff at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) who manage a waste-management project in the southeastern Sri Lankan District of Ampara consider it a sign of success when town residents complain that their rubbish needs collecting. | |
 MUZZAFARGARH, 21 July 2008 (IRIN) - Poverty and deprivation are evident everywhere as one drives out of the southern Punjab city of Muzzafargarh, some 400km southwest of the provincial capital Lahore. | |
 PAWIN, 17 July 2008 (IRIN) - Viewed as a curse by those who lost their homes and loved ones to Cyclone Nargis, heavy rain in recent weeks is proving a saviour of sorts to thousands of cyclone survivors in need of safe drinking water. | |
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