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KABUL, 29 August 2010 (IRIN) - Education in Faryab Province, northern Afghanistan, has never been as good as it is now thanks to the dozens of new schools built by Norway.
QUETTA, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - “The food they give us is insufficient to fill me or my three children and much of the rice goes to my husband, as he is a man and needs more, leaving only a small plate to be shared between the other four members of the family,” said Shamoona Bibi, at a camp for flood displaced people in Quetta, Balochistan Province.
JAKARTA, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - Many of the 30,000 people evacuated after the eruption of Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra to government emergency centres need urgent medical care, aid workers say.
BANGKOK, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - Greater regional cooperation and decentralization are key to meeting the challenges of disasters in Asia, specialists say.
THATTA, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - "The water is coming!" was the cry in the streets of Thatta, about 200km east of Karachi, as shutters came down on shops; wives, children and a few belongings were packed into vehicles and sent off to neighbouring Makli in the hills a few kilometres above the threatened city. Merchants closed their shops and did what they could to strengthen their doors against water and thieves.
MULLAITIVU, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - Few studies of children in Sri Lanka have examined the daily stress they continue to face since the tsunami and civil war, focusing instead on the direct impact of both, according to two studies in the latest Child Development journal.
MANILA, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - The Philippines will likely fail in meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 in conflict-affected Mindanao, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns.
KATHMANDU, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - - Farmers may reap as little as half of their normal harvests this year due to late monsoon rains in Nepal, a country constantly battling malnutrition and food insecurity, the World Food Programme (WFP) warns.
KARACHI , 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - In the courtyard of a building that was going to be an undergraduate college outside the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, Allah Baksh boils a pot of tea over an open fire. He and 3,000 others found sanctuary there after their lives were uprooted from villages in a 1,000 km radius around the city by the spreading waters of the Indus River, rolling through the southern province of Sindh to the sea.
MANILA, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) - The Philippines is bracing for severe flooding over the next few months as a result of the La Niña weather effect, which is expected to whip up heavy storms. Some specialists are saying the country is not adequately prepared.
LAHORE, 1 September 2010 (IRIN) - For hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis forced by the floods to abandon their homes, food is a primary concern: some families have gone days without a meal.
MINGORA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - A few kilometres outside Mingora, Swat Valley’s principal city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, a group of village women discuss the various problems they have been facing in the wake of the recent devastating floods - including the lack of firewood, without which they cannot cook.
JAKARTA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Though the Indonesian government banned female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) four years ago, experts say religious support for the practice is more fervent than ever, particularly in rural communities.
BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - Myanmar’s military government, with soldiers scattered throughout the country, is arbitrarily levying fees from the rural poor, pushing some into hunger and debt, experts say.
BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) - As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world’s agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks.
DHAKA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - A Dutch engineering company is trying to make safer the dangerous job of dismantling old ships contaminated with chemicals - by building the world’s first “green dock wharf” in Bangladesh.
JAKARTA, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - The eruption of Mount Sinabung for the first time in 400 years has highlighted the urgent need for Indonesian authorities to boost disaster preparedness, experts warn.