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QINGHAI, LIVING IN CHINA'S SHADOW
/ By Susetta Bozzi. "From the outside, everything looks so pretty here, but on the inside, everything is boiling" said a monk from the Rebkong monastery in Qinghai as he summed up the situation in the Tibetan part of China. In one year 5 self-immolations took place in Qinghai. Monks speak in cautious, low voices to foreigners...
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AMBIGUOUS NATURE IN URBAN JUNGLES
/ By Susetta Bozzi. Blue skies, green meadows, peaceful lakes…these mendacious promises of an idyllic future appear on the construction-site fencing in Beijing, a metropolis that is growing bigger and bigger following the wave of urbanization in contemporary China, a process that has no equal in the human history both for its...
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SONGKRAN - NEW YEAR WATER FESTIVAL
/ by OnAsia Photographers. April the 13th marks the start of the New Year in Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. Traditionally the water festival is a gathering of family members in order to show respect to the elders, where scented water is poured onto the hands of parents and grandparents. Now the festival has evolved...
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2012 BURMESE DAYS
/ By John Lander. Visitor numbers for trips to Myanmar has risen sharply since the National League for Democracy, the political party of Aung San Suu Kyi, softened its stance in 2011 against tourism to the country. Following the visit of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with the photo ops with Suu Kyi, the politically correct...
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INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN BANGLADESH
/ By Probal Rashid. Winner of one of the public prizes in the 8th DAYS Japan International Photojournalism Awards 2012, OnAsia photographer, Probal Rashid's images are a grim portrayal of pollution in Bangladesh. Toxic industrial waste pouring into rivers, smoke stacks belching greenhouse gasses, workers employed in carbon...
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SRI LANKA WAR CRIMES FURORE
/ In 2009 Sri Lankan troops launched an offensive to end a brutal 26-year civil war with separatist Tamil Tigers. The objective was victory at any cost. When the guns finally fell silent the Tamil Tigers had been roundly defeated but it was clear the human cost had been terrible too. A recent US-led UN resolution is calling for an...
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INVISIBLE VICTIMS - SCARS OF THE SRI LANKAN WAR
/ by Masaru Goto. “My husband disappeared 25 years ago. Nobody thinks he is still alive, but I do. War is over now, but my war is not over yet, not until he comes back to our home,” says a woman in northern Sri Lanka. Asia’s longest civil war ended in May, 2009, after a massive offensive by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) against the...
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MAE SALONG TEA
/ By Jerry Redfern. The Mae Salong valley was settled by ethnic Chinese allied with the Kuomintang in the middle of the 20th Century. They had been chased out of China by Mao Tse-Tung's Communist forces. They brought their culture with them and created a small corner of China in Northern Thailand. While famous for growing and...
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ANTI-NUKE PROTESTS IN INDONESIA
/ By Eka Nickmatulhuda. Indonesian Greenpeace activists wearing masks and anti contamination suits held an anti-nuclear protest and march in Jakarta, Indonesia, About 50 Greenpeace activists were protesting against the Indonesian goverment's plan to build a nuclear power plant in Jepara, Central Java.
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