 | Taking A Look At Laos
National Public Radio 12:23 PM The existing rail track in Laos is an extension of the Thailand railway at the city of Nongkhai. This track crosses the Mekong River in Thailand and ends at the Laos border. Ore Huiying A... (photo: WN / Agnieszka D.) | |
| Laos Photos Rail Thailand Wikipedia: Mekong |
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 What did Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao do for China?
BBC News A decade ago, immediately after Hu Jintao had been appointed Communist Party leader, he went down to a village in Hebei. Making such a place the destination for one of his earliest "investigative... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev) |
| China Economy Photos Politics Wikipedia: Hu Jintao |
 Asia's dammed water hegemony
New Straits/Business Times GLOBAL LEADER: China has already built more large dams than the rest of the world combined AS if to highlight that Asia's biggest challenge is managing the rise of an increasingly assertive China, the... (photo: WN / Agnieszka Dziubińska) |
| Asia China Photos Water Wikipedia: Mekong |
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 Please don't let immolations make 108 inauspicious: Tibetan PM
Zeenews Dharamsala: Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay of the Tibetan government-in-exile here is concerned: There have been 107 immolations for the cause of Tibetan freedom since... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) |
| Beijing Buddhism Photos Religion Wikipedia: Lobsang Sangay |
 Poor Indian children make a living from 'holy leaves'
BBC News Hundreds of poor children in the Indian state of Bihar make a living by selling leaves to Buddhist pilgrims from the Mahabodhi tree - under which Gautam Buddha is said to... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang) |
| Children India Photos Poverty Wikipedia: India |
 DPRK says to display its status as country of nuclear, satellite capacity
CNTV PYONGYANG, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will display its status as a country of nuclear and satellite-launching capacity as a... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) |
| Nuclear Photos Politics Pyongyang Wikipedia: North Korea and weapons of mass destruction |
 UN hails govt pledges to end violence against women
CNTV UNITED NATIONS, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Michelle Bachelet, executive director of UN Women, said Friday that fifty governments have signed pledges to stop violence against... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) |
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 Dams may unleash torrent of ill will
San Francisco Chronicle Here come those dastardly dams! In Asia, Africa and the Middle East, nations are aggressively building hydroelectric dams, seemingly heedless of the potentially... (photo: WN / Agnieszka Dziubińska) |
| Africa Asia Hydroelectric Photos Wikipedia: Hydroelectricity |
