Selected South Asia Holdings

Selected South Asia Holdings

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DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

Some 1,500 acid attacks are committed each year. It's often a gender-based crime, the mostly-female victims left disfigured and disgraced. In Pakistan, a beauty-maven is helping survivors find work -- …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

The Indian government is rolling out an ambitious, multi-billion dollar plan to build a high-speed broadband network in rural parts of the country. The National Optical Fiber Network aims to …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

Female infanticide continues to be a big problem in India. And even though it is illegal to determin the gender of a fetus in the mother's womb, doctors and sex-selective …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

The head of the Competition Commission of Pakistan is not a woman to be intimidated. Having made it to the top, she is determined to take on Pakistan's notorious financial …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

Rebuilding typhoon devastated Phillipines - India's street performers face an uncertain future - Indigenous Australians living on the fringe - and women of the Hopi tribe fight domestic violence in …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

Women's safety in India has been a hot topic over the past two years, with a series of highly-publicised attacks tarnishing the country's image. But 35-year-old Esha Gupta says this …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

A Taliban attack on a school in December that killed 148 people, 132 of them children, has appalled Pakistan. It may result in more united political action against the Taliban, …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

India is hit by one of its worst outbreaks of swine flu. We also hear why a decline in Ebola patients should hinder vaccines research. And the kids of Europe …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

We hear about the short life and death of a young man who died of AIDS in Pakistan, a victim of ignorance and stigmatization that is still rife more than …


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 English

The emergency responders, helping victims' families deal with the Germanwings tragedy - 100 years since Gallipoli, antipodeans make the pilgrimage to remember -The memoirs causing consternation in Turkey - The …