Climate security in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB) region is emerging as an important focal point for climate security risks. This is largely due to a multi-layered interplay of geopolitical, geostrategic, and climate-related regional
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diplomatic roadshow
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Exploring Mekong expedition
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WHO's Stop TB partnership programme
the World Health Organization (who) along with its Stop tb partnership programme, announced on June 22 guidelines to curb two forms of tuberculosis
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Wood-energy supply/demand scenarios in the context of poverty mapping
This publication provides policy-makers and project personnel with tools to assess present energy flows and future energy scenarios. It uses a geographic information system to generate and manage data independently of political boundaries, integrating and analysing relationships among socio-economic and environmental variable and facilitates the identification of priority areas and population that deserve greatest attention in efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Action tiger: tiger action plans of 12 tiger range countries
As an animal high on popularity charts, the tiger has fascinated and awed generations for centuries. However, with its range confined to 14 Asian countries today, its distribution has more than halved and so have its numbers.
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Asia Pacific agreement on net fishing
As a part of major reforms for the fishery sector, 14 countries agreed to cut trawling and push net fishing to reverse the growing production of low-value
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Trade deal inked
The Association of South-East Asian Nations (asean) recently signed a trade agreement with the us, which experts say will lead to more trade and investment alliances between the two regions . The
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India to bypass Bangladesh on Myanmar India gas pipeline
With Bangladesh playing hardball on the Myanmar-India gas pipeline, India has decided to go ahead with the project by bypassing its neighbour's territory. A route through Bangladesh would have been
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Students' organisation says no to gas pipeline in northeast
Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO) has launched a campaign among the tribal communities of northeastern states against the proposed tri-nation Indo-Myanmar gas pipeline that will run from Sittwe
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Fake malaria drug causes death in Myanmar
A fake malaria drug caused a death in Myanmar recently. A patient went to a rural hospital in east Myanmar where he was diagnosed with falciparum malaria and treated with the anti-malarial drug