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In Myanmar, Culture of Taboo Around Sex Forces Women to Seek Illegal Abortions

Abortion is banned in Myanmar unless a life is...

A Rohingya man walks through the jhuggi camp in Shaheen Bagh as a woman looks on from inside her home. More than 40 families pay rent to live on the land, a 10-minute walk from the main road. Many earn income by rag-picking plastic, paper and glass recyclables from the road and sorting it for resale at the camp. Credit: Meagan Clark

Photo Feature: Rohingya Refugees in Delhi Denied Healthcare, Education

Meagan Clark 17/03/2017

Although the Rohingya community in Delhi worries about their...

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Mangroves: The Forests of the Tide

Beth Walker 10/12/2016

A new art exhibition in Yangon shows the strange...

Worker fumigates along a street in Yangon, Myanmar November 18, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

Myanmar Struggles to Prepare For Possible Zika Outbreak

Shwe Yee Saw Myint 20/11/2016

The Ministry of Health's Than Htun Aung said measures...

A schoolboy rows his boat past partially submerged huts in a flooded paddy field after heavy rains in Balimukh village

Climate Change Linked to Surge in Japanese Encephalitis in Northeast India

Azera Parveen Rahman 14/10/2016

Doctors and health experts say the rise in the...

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Natural Disasters Have High Negative Impact on Children and Schools in Asia Pacific

Alisa Tang 20/06/2016

In the coming decades, an estimated 200 million children...