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Like Escobar, Ecuador's drug lords build 'narco-zoos'
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» QUITO - A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.
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Fighting two pandemics in Asia and the Pacific
Oped, Published on 04/09/2020
» Global hunger has been on a regrettable rise in recent years, and despite Asia's economic clout, the continent -- home to more than half of the world's undernourished -- has not been spared. Now Covid-19 is leading to a slowdown of regional economic growth and further threatening food security.
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Hungry and in chains, Thailand's tourist elephants face crisis
AFP, Published on 31/03/2020
» Underfed and chained up for endless hours, campaigners warn many elephants working in Thailand's tourism sector may starve, be sold to zoos or shifted into the illegal logging trade as the coronavirus decimates visitor numbers.
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From low to high
Life, Father Joe Maier, Published on 12/11/2018
» Seventeen years ago, Mum gave birth to a healthy son in a provincial prison hospital two hours outside of Bangkok. She named her son Ake. To avoid the nightmare of trying to remember who might have been the actual father of her child, she had blessed him with her own last name.
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Govt mulls more carers for the elderly
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/07/2018
» The government is considering investing two billion baht a year in hiring certified carers to provide basic care to the estimated 300,000 bedridden patients living at home nationwide.
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Grow-it-yourself school leads the way on lunches
News, Published on 24/06/2018
» School children can eat hearty and healthy meals without having to rely much on the state subsidy if they grow and raise their own food, as the Ban Koke Chamroen School in Prasat district of Surin has found.
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Tiger temple animals now 'starving'
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 04/02/2018
» Hundreds of animals, including a lion, are being underfed at Kanchanaburi's Tiger Temple, according to a recent visitor who posted his concerns on Facebook.
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One girl's plight epitomises Rohingya struggle
Published on 06/07/2017
» DAR PAING, MYANMAR (AP) - Ever since she was born in this squalid camp for displaced members of Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority, Rosmaida Bibi has struggled to do something most of the world's children do effortlessly: grow.
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More than 50,000 North Koreans forced to work abroad: UN
AFP, Published on 29/10/2015
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - More than 50,000 North Koreans have been sent to work abroad, mainly in Russia and China, in conditions that a UN rights expert said Wednesday amounted to forced labor.
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What's new in business news: May 29, 2015
Jon Fernquest, Published on 29/05/2015
» Many digital TV channels at risk of failure, Moody's says Thai govt financial position very strong & Thailand's hungry cut by half since 1996.
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