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CAMBODIA'S GREAT LAKE
/ By Brent Lewin. Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia is best known for its unique hydraulic phenomenon when, during the wet season, the lake’s adjoining river reverses direction filling the lake instead of draining it. This causes the lake’s surface to expand from 2,500 square kilometres to 16,000 making it the largest freshwater lake in...
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LEOPARD ATTACK - THE FULL SERIES!
/ By Salil Bera/The Week. One of these stunning images won the coveted FCCT/OnAsia Photojournalism Contest Spot News category for 2011 (top row third from left). Here is the full story...an amazing series of images. Please contact info@onasia.com for publication rights (Mandatory credit: Salil Bera/The Week/OnAsia.com).
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FCCT/ONASIA PHOTOJOURNALISM CONTEST 2011
Every year, the FCCT and OnAsia spotlight the best in photography from across the Asian region. This year, the judges received more than 5,000 images from more than 300 photographers from countries all over the world including Thailand, India, Indonesia, Mongolia and Afghanistan. The shots chronicled the countless human dramas that...
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CHINA’S ECONOMIC WONDERLAND WOES
/ By Susetta Bozzi. Record economic growth, the world’s second largest economy, an economic miracle…for decades China has boomed. But in business circles today, slowdown, faltering and downturn are far more common descriptions - worse still, meltdown and collapse are today’s catch words along with “is the bubble about to burst”?...
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CENTRE OF HOPE IN KABUL
/ By Graham Crouch. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Orthopaedic Centre in Kabul is where victims of war as well as the disabled, are fitted with artificial limbs, hand made in workshops within the compound. Many are people who have lost one or both legs to landmines. Others have been attacked by coalition...
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THAILAND UNDER WATER
/ By Yvan Cohen. Thailand is reeling from the impact of massive floods that have deluged huge swathes of its industrial and agricultural heartland. Experts say the floods were caused by a combination of exceptionally heavy monsoon rains and dubious water management. With dams at critical levels, officials were obliged to release...
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STATELESS & OPPRESSED - THE ROHINGYA PURGATORY
/ By Suthep Kritsanavarin. The Rohingya rarely make the news but when they do it’s almost always bad. Theirs is a tale of suffering and persecution largely hidden from the international spotlight. A Muslim group native to Arakan on Burma’s western border with Bangladesh, the Rohingya found themselves on the wrong side of history....
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MONEY FOR SALE!
/ By Eka Nickmatulhuda. Want to buy some money? A big wad, or a whole stash? Just pay in cash and grab a bundle from the streets where literally billions of Rupiah are on sale! In Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, it’s time for the Eid al Fitr holiday. Tradition has it that this is a time for the elders to...
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ANTI-CHINA PROTESTS IN VIETNAM
/ By Chau Doan. Vietnamese activists have taken to the streets in Hanoi every Sunday for about 10 weeks to protest against Chinese vessels interfering with oil exploration in disputed areas of the South China Sea. In July protestors were arrested and again on August 21 the protestors provoked the wrath of the police. Having waved...
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