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When do mother tongues divide?

DILI, 26 March 2012 (IRIN) - A proposal to sanction the use of indigenous languages in primary schools in polyglot Timor-Leste has divided members of government, civil society and educators, raising questions about how language can spur harmony - or discord - in the young nation. full report

ASIA: Parliamentarians mull how to boost health

 BANGKOK, 20 March 2012 (IRIN) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is bringing together on 19-21 March in Bangkok lawmakers from across Southeast Asia to discuss how to bolster their health systems back home. full report

TIMOR-LESTE: High hopes for post-election prosperity

 MANATUTU, 16 March 2012 (IRIN) - The parade of cars and motorbikes and cacophony of slogans blasted from megaphones were a welcome sort of chaos compared with past election tension in the northern district of Manatutu in Timor-Leste, which on 17 March is holding its second presidential vote since independence. full report

TIMOR-LESTE: Spike in dengue raises health concern

 DILI/BANGKOK, 2 March 2012 (IRIN) - An increase in the number of suspected dengue cases in Timor-Leste in 2012, compared with the same period last year, has prompted government health and sanitation warnings. full report

TIMOR-LESTE: Falling short on MDGs*

 BANGKOK, 21 February 2012 (IRIN) - The Southeast Asian half-island nation of Timor-Leste is falling short on most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), experts warn. full report

ASIA: Isolation, poverty loom for an aging population

 BANGKOK, 14 February 2012 (IRIN) - With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia has one of the largest concentrations globally of aging persons, creating a host of potential challenges, experts warn. full report

HEALTH: Yaws treatment study prompts WHO review

 BANGKOK, 11 January 2012 (IRIN) - Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how the disease may be wiped out. full report

AID POLICY: Spotlight on New Deal for fragile states

 DAKAR, 20 December 2011 (IRIN) - At the global aid effectiveness forum in Busan, South Korea, in November and December this year, the “G7+”, a group of nations which includes 19 fragile and conflict-affected states, agreed a New Deal on fragile states, which sets out concrete and, they hope, more relevant ways to improve peace- and state-building goals. full report

ASIA: Boosting cities' food resilience

 BANGKOK, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - From rooftops to railroad tracks, Asia's largest cities will need to maximize every bit of space to feed one of the world's fastest-growing populations, said experts at a UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) workshop in Bangkok on resilient food systems in Asia. full report

TIMOR-LESTE: Observers divided over oil fund investment

 DILI, 19 October 2011 (IRIN) - A new bill allowing more diversified investments by Timor-Leste's multi-billion dollar oil and natural gas sovereign fund, which underwrites the lion's share of the country's expenditure, has divided opinion, with some saying the step is necessary to maintain current levels of development spending and others calling the move risky. full report

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