HEALTH
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Vasectomies are slowly gaining favour as a family planning method in North Sulawesi.
VICTORIA NGANTUNG & DESTA PRATAMA
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Hospitals in Thailand fear floods will hit drug supplies.
IRIN
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Resource-strapped villages in Nepal chain up child drug addicts.
IRIN
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Staff at the maternity clinic in the Mae La refugee camp learn about special care for newborns.
IRIN
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Cambodia uses text messaging as weapon in malaria war.
IRIN
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Monthly imprisonment for women in Nepal.
IRIN
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A health crisis is brewing as diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease spread with urbanisation.
IRIN
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The Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan triggers memories for a young man whose father was, along with thousands of other Ukrainian workers, sent by the Soviet government to help clean up after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
ROSTISLAV GOLYAK
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NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing strategy in Laos
IRIN
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Have a bird’s nest facial at the only Peranakan spa in the world.
VIVIENNE KHOO
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The betel nut is causing rates of oral cancer to rocket in the Indian subcontinent, with children as young as four its biggest users.
IRIN
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Chickpea goes to the rescue of children in Pakistan, who are suffering “critical levels” of malnutrition after the devastating floods of 2010.
IRIN
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Caregiver is blamed, but story exposes more serious issues in China’s care system for the old.
王传涛 Wang Chuantao
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Outdated kilns produce deadly emissions in Bangladesh, where bad air causes 15,000 premature deaths yearly in the capital alone.
IRIN
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They are lonely, depressed and secretly use drugs. Now more and more married women in Pakistan are finding it hard to kick the habit.
IRIN
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