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Sustainable Development

Keeping The Water Flowing In Rural Villages

Keeping projects in business for the long term has been a constant theme of the Fixes column, and if sustainability has a poster child, it would be a water pump.   Tra...

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Alternative Entertainment

Iris Grace: Beautiful Paintings On New Book About Autism

In 2014 a five-year-old girl called Iris Grace began receiving widespread acclaim for some rather astonishing paintings.
They were sold to private art collectors for t...

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Documentary / Shorts

A movie is a reflection of culture: Mahbub Alam at TEDxSinchon

"A Movie is a Reflection of Culture, From an Immigrant to an Earthling"

Director of Asia Media Culture Factory and FreePort, MahbubAlam is a Korean born in Bangl...

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Sustainable Development

An Office On Four Wheels Brings Land Administration Services To Isolated Populations

I recently had the opportunity to see the mobile offices run by the State Service for the Registration of Real Estate (SSRRE) of the Republic of Azerbaijan. These mobile of...

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Health

5 Ways To Stop 200,000 Child Deaths

This month, hundreds of thousands of children will get access to rotavirus vaccines in India with the start of a national introduction that marks Asia’s largest to da...

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Human Rights

India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Festivals

A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

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Environment

The Lion Queens Of India: An All-Women Animal Rescue Team

The Lion Queens of India tells the story of an all-women animal rescue team working in Gir National Park, which is the last known habitat for Asiatic Lions in the worl...

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Alternative Entertainment

Campaign To Promote Women Artistes Comes With A Surprising Challenge

Frida Kahlo was the first 20th-century Mexican artist to sell a painting to the Louvre. Suzanne Valadon was the first woman accepted to the Société Natio...

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World Wildlife Day 2016: 15 Ways To Save Earth’s Animals And Plants

Thursday marks World Wildlife Day, which the 68th session of the United Nations General Assemblydesignated as a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the planet’s ...

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