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Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projectsUnited Nations - This holiday season, scores of projects aimed at improving the education of school children around the world are set to profit from an IKEA initiative to the tune of €5 million (almost $7 million), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today. |
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Left untouched, world’s largest mangrove forest recovering fast
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 15, 2008 - The world's largest mangrove forest is recovering fast from one of the worst disasters in its history, a year after it was badly damaged by a devastating cyclone, Bangladesh officials say.
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Bangladesh landmass ‘is growing’
Bangladesh may not be as vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by climate change as previously feared, scientists say.
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Bangladesh street kids turn bankersDhaka, Bangladesh - Mohammad Raju ran away from his poor family in Bangladesh's southern Khulna district eight years ago, hoping for a better life in Dhaka. |
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Rare Sandpipers Found in MyanmarCoast of Myanmar - Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar (Burma), offering hope for the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Millions of stateless people to benefit from recent breakthroughs, says UN agencyUnited Nations - The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed as “major breakthroughs” recent decisions by Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to grant citizenship to some three million people who live in the three Asian nations without any official identity. |
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First India-Bangladesh train linkDhaka, Bangladesh - A train carrying Indian government officials has crossed the border and arrived in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. |
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Cabbie returns 31 diamond rings to passengerNew York City, New York, USA - A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride. |
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3 million Muslims in Bangladesh pray for peaceTongi, Bangladesh - Some 3 million Muslim devotees raised their hands in prayer for global peace, putting aside their country's sometimes violent struggle with political corruption and Islamic extremists, at one of the world's largest religious gatherings. |
news from the Indian Sub-Continent
- Improvements seen four years after the Indian Ocean tsunami
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Measles Deaths Worldwide Fall by 74 Percent
- Nepal: UN official welcomes vow to release former child soldiers from army camps
- ‘Very proud’ Shelterbox founder wins prestigious Beacon Prize
- India’s largest butterfly park, in Surat, set to open next month
- Left untouched, world’s largest mangrove forest recovering fast
- VIDEO: “Reborn Buddha” Reemerges
- Wind power can prevent climate change: study
- VIDEO: India Heads to Moon
