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ASIA

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Somali cabinet shake-up, the West's new 'cannon fodder', will water really run out, and what photos to use in a crisis?


EMERGENCIES

Tropical storm Bopha
"Super typhoon" slams into southeast China
Source: Reuters

Tropical storm Prapiroon
Typhoon kills over 100 in China, 41 in one house
Source: Reuters

Aceh peace
Indonesia leader upbeat on economy, vows to aid poor
Source: Reuters

Afghan reconstruction
NATO says troops kill 11 "Taliban ambushers"
Source: Reuters

Cambodia recovery
Khmer Rouge "Butcher" buried near Pol Pot
Source: Reuters

Chechnya war
Armed mob kills two Russian police in their homes
Source: Reuters

East Timor nation-building
UN council divided on East Timor peacekeeping plan
Source: Reuters

Java tsunami
Response to the latest earthquake and tsunami in Java
Source: NGO

Georgia, Abkhazia, S. Ossetia
Peacebuilding summer camp inspires Youth
Source: NGO

AIDS in Asia
AIDS conference Advo-casts go on the web
Source: NGO

India's northeastern clashes
Fourteen killed in road accident in India's Assam
Source: Reuters

Indian Maoist violence
Bomb blast on bus in India kills two
Source: Reuters

Indian Ocean tsunami
FEATURE-Sri Lanka's tsunami-hit tourist south feels cost of war
Source: Reuters

Indonesia earthquake
Quake off eastern Indonesia, no tsunami warning
Source: Reuters

Kashmir dispute
Faked stalagmite, attacks dent Kashmir pilgrimage
Source: Reuters

Myanmar displacement
Bangladesh seeks relocation of Myanmar refugees
Source: Reuters

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
High Commissioner to visit to southern Caucasus
Source: UNHCR

Nepal insurgency
Hundreds protest in Nepal over "disappearances"
Source: Reuters

North Korea famine
Sri Lanka: First time aid in ten days to Jaffna
Source: NGO

Pakistan violence
Gas pipeline blown up in southwestern Pakistan
Source: Reuters

Philippines-Mindanao conflict
Philippine communist rebels kill soldier, take guns
Source: Reuters

Papua tensions
Seven face death for murder of Americans in Papua
Source: Reuters

S. Asia earthquake
PAKISTAN: Dirty water takes toll on quake survivors
Source: IRIN

Sri Lanka conflict
Sri Lanka: Civilians cross lines
Source: NGO

Thailand violence
Nearly 400 N.Korean refugees in Thailand this year
Source: Reuters

Malaria
Death toll could rise in Ethiopian floods
Source: NGO

Bird flu
World Bank urges more funds for culls in Indonesia
Source: Reuters

AIDS pandemic
U.S. herpes infections decline, study finds
Source: Reuters

S. Asia monsoon
Southwest Ethiopia, South Omo Province, Post - disaster map
Source: UNOSAT


Climate and Weather

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Tropical storm Wukong
Tropical storm Wukong struck Japan at about 00:00 GMT on 18 August.


AIDS pandemic

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A row about AIDS funding, chloroquine from the postman, Khartoum slums razed...


Climate and Weather

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Taking the shame out of condoms, a corporate take on water shortages, and North Korea's flood death toll.


Disaster mitigation

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Spike Lee's requiem for New Orleans, praise and criticism for Bush at AIDS conference, reporting disasters in China ...



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