Last Updated: May 03. 2008 7:45AM UAE / May 3. 2008 3:45AM GMT By Gde Anugrah ArkaNUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Southeast Asia nationsmeeting in Bali have agreed to cooperate over the rice market,Ma…
I don’t always listen to my body, but today I allowed myself to sleep late. My brain did try to give my body a nudge. “Isn’t it time to get up?”
My body groaned. “Turn down your electrical activity. I’m sleeping.”
Brain makes my body pick up my cell phone. “It’s 7:30 am. You’re late for work.”
Body turns over. “You’re deranged and hallucinating. It’s Saturday.”
“But….”
I finally got up at
Vietnamese weightlifter Hoang Anh Tuan, who won the men's 56kg division at the Asian Weightlifting Championships in Japan late last month, said he is practicing hard so as to bag home an Olympic medal…
There are only some 13,000 Cambodians, or less than one-thousandth of the total population, subscribe to internet, according to an industry survey published on Saturday by English-language newspaper t…
A very nice photo slides of Laos with cool music in the background.
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In an attempt to halt the soaring rice price crisis confronting Asia, a number of regional nations have proposed setting up an Opec-style cartel for exporters of the staple on which billions of people…
Asian countries sought Friday to tame the spiraling rice market, with Thailand proposing an OPEC-style cartel for exporters and the Philippines shoring up supplies while aiming to end its status as th…
The United Nations mission in Vietnam recently announced that two new methadone clinics in the northern port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam, have opened to treat injection drug users and reduce the spread…
The crisis of skyrocketing food prices is affecting all economic groups in every corner of the world. Every day, it seems, high-priced food sends another country lurching through some crisis: demonstrations, riots, rumors of hoarding, falling governments, even deaths.
Global Voices is well positioned to follow the nuances of this complex issue with authors tracking citizen [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. religious freedom watchdog group urged the United States on Friday to put Vietnam back on a religious rights blacklist, two years after the communist country was removed …
