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Trade unions in Sri Lanka say a quarter of a million tea plantation workers have joined a non-cooperation exercise to…

Analysis: US reignites debate over Burma sanctions YANGON, 3 September 2009 (IRIN) – An expected review of US policy towards…

BEIJING, September 2, 2009 – China is taking decisive action to help stabilize the world economy and is persisting with…

BANGLADESH: New initiative to combat malnutrition, anaemia DHAKA, 1 September 2009 (IRIN) – There have been mixed reactions to a…

Opium farming in Afghanistan has declined by 22 per cent this year as prices for the drug tumbled, causing farmers…

BRUXELLES, 1 September 2009: The International Trade Union Confederation, ITUC, lodged a submission detailing Iran’s violations of fundamental workers’ rights…

New York, August 31, 2009: The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist…

BANDARAGAMA, 31 August 2009 (IRIN) – Years ago, the loft above Kulasena Perera’s bedroom was a storeroom for rice. Now,…

Officials in Afghanistan say they are looking into more than 560 major allegations of election fraud from the 20 August…