Food Prices: Hunger Strikes
As the sun sets over Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, a sweet smell wafts through a small house where Malahasen Juma is cooking dinner for her eight children: a handful of onions, chopped and tossed into a pot of steaming maize porridge and leftover vegetables. Until recently Juma would spice up suppers with beef or fish stews. But not now. "Everything is more expensive," she says. "The children need milk, but I cannot afford that. Meat is a luxury now, not a necessity. We are just living at God's mercy."
Nations:India Somalia Uganda Myanmar China Niger People:Ban Ki-moon Robert Zoellick George W. Bush Activities:Global Food Crisis Source:(Time)
2008-06-11
Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.
Nations:Cambodia Activities:Myanmar Cyclone Disaster
2008-05-10
'Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies
Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday. He was 65.
Nations:Cambodia Thailand People:Sam Waterston Activities:Holocaust Vietnam War
2008-03-30
Americans overseas head to polls
Americans living overseas started lining up in hotels and coffee shops Tuesday to vote for Democratic candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, while others -- for the first time ever -- cast ballots online.
Nations:Indonesia Thailand Cambodia Ireland Philippines Japan People:Barack Obama Hillary Clinton
2008-02-05
China pleads for calm in Myanmar
China issued an evenhanded plea for calm in Myanmar on Thursday after refusing to condemn the military-run government, while Southeast Asian nations expressed "revulsion" at the violent repression of the demonstrations.
Nations:China Myanmar Cambodia Indonesia Vietnam Philippines People:Ban Ki-moon Christopher Hill John Howard Activities:2007 Myanmar Protests
2007-09-27
Former Khmer Rouge leader arrested
Police arrested the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader Wednesday, serving 82-year-old Nuon Chea with a warrant on charges related to his role in the 1970s regime blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
Nations:Cambodia
2007-09-19
Pitt and Jolie ready for fifth child
Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie are ready for another child, the actor said Sunday as he was promoting his new film.
Nations:Cambodia Ethiopia Italy Vietnam People:Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Activities:Pitt & Jolie
2007-09-02
China's influence spreads around world
For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
Nations:U.S. Brazil China Sudan Bolivia Venezuela People:Mia Farrow Hu Jintao Deng Xiaoping Activities:2007 China Toothpaste Crisis Darfur Genocide Crisis
2007-09-02
Dengue fever rages across Asia
Dengue fever is raging across Asia, prompting the World Health Organization to warn that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade.
Nations:Cambodia Indonesia Vietnam Singapore Malaysia Thailand
2007-07-31
Lonely memorial for China's forgotten war
Like sentinels standing guard, the sturdy pine trees at Malipo cemetery cast their protective shade on the rows of soldiers' graves commemorating China's bloody war with Vietnam.
Nations:China Vietnam Russia Cambodia Activities:China-Vietnam Border War
2007-03-31
Jolie adopts Vietnamese boy
Actress Angelina Jolie adopted her fourth child on Thursday, a Vietnamese boy from a Ho Chi Minh City orphanage.
Nations:Cambodia Vietnam Ethiopia People:Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt
2007-03-15
Angelina Jolie to adopt Vietnamese child
Angelina Jolie has filed papers to adopt a Vietnamese child, the country's top adoption official said Friday.
Nations:Vietnam Cambodia Ethiopia People:Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt
2007-03-02
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