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Australia failing to end indigenous disadvantage: PM
AFP, Published on 11/02/2015
» Australia's failure to end the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal people was described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday as "profoundly disappointing" with key targets missed and employment levels actually worsening.
Behind the boom
Asia focus, Tanyatorn Tongwaranan, Published on 09/02/2015
» 'Mingalaba!" hollered the 29-year-old Burmese tour guide standing in the front of the small bus packed with Thai tourists. He was wearing the traditional attire — a buttoned-up long-sleeved jacket, checked-pattern longyi and a pair of flip-flops — as he led the group through Yangon.
Narong sets literacy goal for students
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 13/01/2015
» Education Minister Narong Pipatanasai has declared 2015 as the year of zero illiteracy among Thai students.
Many conscripts illiterate drug users
Online Reporters, Published on 02/12/2014
» More than half of the latest batch of military conscripts were found to be drug users or small-time dealers, along with a high level of illiteracy, to the dismay of the 2nd Army Region commander.
Movie brings China's blind masseurs out of the shadows
AFP, Published on 28/11/2014
» BEIJING - "Blind Massage", the award-winning new film by the enfant terrible of Chinese cinema Lou Ye, throws a rare spotlight on those who cannot see for themselves in a country where the disabled are often marginalised.
Ghani warns against Afghan 'proxy war' at South Asia summit
AFP, Published on 26/11/2014
» Afghanistan's new president told the leaders of India and Pakistan on Wednesday he will not let his country become the battleground for a proxy war, as the enmity between South Asia's arch-rivals cast a shadow over a regional summit.
Cynthia Muang warns of border migrant 'explosion'
News, Published on 14/11/2014
» The number of undocumented people living along the Thailand-Myanmar border is likely to explode after the launch of the Asean Community (AC) next year, a seminar was told on Thursday.
Child labour can be eradicated in my lifetime, says Nobel winner
AFP, Published on 12/10/2014
» NEW DELHI - Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi told AFP he believes child labour can be eradicated in his lifetime, calling for everyone in the world to "take a stand" against the practice.
Malala, Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/10/2014
» OSLO, Norway —Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban, and India’s Kailash Satyarthi were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their advocacy of education rights for children.
1,000 pupils 'grapple with illiteracy'
News, Lamphai Intathep, Published on 23/09/2014
» More than 1,000 students in Prathom 3 and 6 (Grades 3 and 6) of schools in eight central provinces are functionally illiterate, says the Education Ministry's inspector-general.