" The Chinese Communist Party has approved an economic reform plan that would allow farmers to trade and mortgage their land rights. The package was approved on Sunday at the party's annual conference...
Defined gender roles are still very prevalent in Rural Nepalese culture. Women are a crucial part of the day to day activities but it seems time stands still for them because of historic historic gender role in...
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Here is a recent photo story from my trip to Nepal. I lived in a small village for about 2 1/2 months, this is a good representation of what I learned.http://eyeini.com/stories/ruralnepal.html
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Two years ago, Kyle MacDonald traded a small red paper clip for a fish-shaped pen, swaped the fish-shaped pen for a doornob, and kept on trading until he had a house in a small Saskatchewan town. He kept a blog ...
A new rapid test for the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer, has proven to be 90 percent accurate in a trial involving women in rural villages in eastern China. The trial involved 2,388...
A raid that followed a two-year child sex abuse investigation has rescued 6 children, who are now in state care."Six minors have been placed in temporary state custody as part of a two-year child abuse and pornography investigation after a raid on a ministry run by a man who...
It is a happy irony, or maybe divine justice, that a bullying incident in Nova Scotia created an anti-bullying campaign that reached kids worldwide. Today in Cambridge, N.S., the small town where it all started, kids...
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Telus has canceled one of its most popular data plans: a $75/month plan that allowed cell phones to be used as modems for laptops. One of the big reasons is due to "abuse." It seems that unlimited meant "within...
Many initiatives seek to bring inexpensive access to the internet to rural and remote regions around the world. One of the most successful ways to rapidly expand access is to offer wireless internet so that anyone...
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The world’s growing urbanization means that a whole generation of youth will have a dramatically different life than their parents. The world’s 3.3 billion urbanites now outnumber rural residents for the first...
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"(CNN) -- A dog sheltered a newborn baby abandoned by its 14-year-old mother in a field in rural Argentina until the boy was rescued, a doctor said Friday. ...
There are times when I really think that this whole wisdom of crowds thing is for real. This is one of those examples. Given the problems we are already seeing with the rise in fuel and the resulting rise in food prices it is refreshing to see people reacting in,...
It has been revealed that a Manitoba teenager shook hands with Greyhound Bus maniac Vince Li just hours before Li's heinous alleged crime. "He seemed a straight, regular guy" the teen said. " ...
Rural Network dating agency routinely lied and misled clients about prospective romantic interests.Their clients mostly farmers and miners had all paid registration fees to Rural Network because they were...