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Legal blow for controversial Andaman tourist resort
Legal blow for controversial Andaman tourist resort
Weeks after  the last member of the Bo tribe died on the Andaman Islands, an Indian court has moved to protect the neighbouring Jarawa tribe by suspending the operation of a controversial tourist resort. India’s ... |

By Survival International USA in WORLD NEWS, ODDITIES on March 10th, 2010
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Amnesty Slams Vedanta Resources
Amnesty International this week released a report condemning the behavior of FTSE 100 mining company Vedanta Resources . The Amnesty report exposes gross human rights violations committed ... |

By Survival International USA in WORLD NEWS on February 11th, 2010
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Tribal people appeal to James Cameron
Tribal people appeal to James Cameron
Survival has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron on behalf of an Indian tribe through an ad in the film industry magazine Variety (published 8 February 2010). In the ad Survival asks Mr Cameron ... |

By Survival International USA in WORLD NEWS, ENTERTAINMENT on February 10th, 2010
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Extinct: Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies
The last member of a unique tribe has died on India’s Andaman Islands. Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of Bo, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are ... |

By Survival International USA in WORLD NEWS on February 4th, 2010
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China’s Super-rich Look for Love Online
China’s Super-rich Look for Love Online
China’s wealthy men are going all out to find the woman of their dreams, paying up to $44,000 to join an exclusive online dating site, CNN reports : The Web site states in Chinese the qualifications ... |

By Sophie Beach in WORLD NEWS on January 27th, 2010
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Provincial minister for agriculture visited Mirpurkhas
Provincial minister for agriculture visited Mirpurkhas
MIRPURKHAS Jan 14. Provincial minister for agriculture Syed Ali Nawaz Shah has said that agriculture has status of backbone in the progress of the country for which present government is introducing ... |

By wafaq in WORLD NEWS on January 16th, 2010
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The Inevitable Dominance Of China
The Inevitable Dominance Of China
Via Clusterstock , here is the opening paragraph from an article in Foreign Policy on China: In 2040, the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of ... |

Should you be a Global Warming skeptic? What does the data say?
By Tom Lindmark in WORLD NEWS on January 13th, 2010
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Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's
Pirates Seize Ship Carrying 2,300 Hyundai's
A ship carrying 2,300 Hyundai's and Kia's was captured by Somali pirates about 600 miles off the coast of Somalia late Friday, The Car Connection reports. Not to make light of something as serious ... |

By kidmercury in WORLD NEWS on January 7th, 2010
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“Bhagavad Gita is Hindu Terrorism.” – says Kedar Joshi
“Bhagavad Gita is Hindu Terrorism.” – says Kedar Joshi
The Hindu bible “Bhagavad Gita” is inherently satanic, and it is “Hindu terrorism”, says Indian (Puneite) philosopher and astrologer Kedar Joshi, through his work “The Satanic Verses of Bhagavad-gita”. ... |

By Mansur Abbas in WORLD NEWS on January 5th, 2010
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The modern raunchy sex trade!
The modern raunchy sex trade!
  Dingy poky rooms, loud flashy makeup and poorly clad women are no more the way prostitution in India looks like. Today there’s a deluge of highly sophisticated, urbane and educated female ... |

By Abhirup Bhunia in WORLD NEWS on December 1st, 2009
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