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	<description>Online platform for South Asian community development (Beta)</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Climate link with killer cyclones spurs fierce scientific debate</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/05/06/nargis/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/05/06/nargis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Birma]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyclone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nargis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, Hurricane Katrina laid waste to parts of the US Gulf Coast. Last year, the Arabian Peninsula was hit by a super-cyclone, Gonu. Now, an unusual early-season storm, Nargis, has slammed into Myanmar, brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone just before it made landfall.
Are these events &#8212; massively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bangladesh faces climate change refugee nightmare</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/04/14/nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/04/14/nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[coastline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cox's Bazar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[refugee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abdul Majid has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh.
There are millions like Majid, 65, in Bangladesh and in the future there could be many millions more if scientists&#8217; predictions of rising seas and more intense droughts and storms come true.
&#8220;Bangladesh is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change increases cataract blindness risk: experts</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/04/07/cataract-blindness/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/04/07/cataract-blindness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Protecting health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[World Health Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change will increase the risk of people losing their sight through cataracts because of higher levels of ultraviolet rays, an expert said Monday.&#8221;The three main risk factors that lead to cataract blindness are age, smoking and UV exposure, in that order,&#8221; said Andreas Mueller of the Fred Hollows Foundation.
&#8220;Climate change will increase UV levels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel laureate Yunus unveils Bangladesh clean water deal</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/03/31/clean-water/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/03/31/clean-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grameen Bank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grameen-Veolia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Yunus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nobel laureate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Veolia Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Monday unveiled a deal between his pioneering Grameen bank and French group Veolia Environment to provide clean water to poor rural communities in Bangladesh.
The Bangladeshi economist also sought support from President Nicolas Sarkozy for creating more microcredit schemes to fight poverty, particularly in Africa.
&#8220;I wanted to make him understand how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unease rises over anti-Islam film</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/03/27/anti-islam/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/03/27/anti-islam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA['Fitna']]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anti-Islam film]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anti-Quran]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dutch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geert Wilders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://voiceofsouth.wordpress.com/?p=241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In announcing the release of his anti-Quran film, Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, has generated a swell of media attention in the Netherlands in the past months. Politicians have urged him not to go ahead with the release of the film &#8216;Fitna&#8217; because they say its controversial content may lead to national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi website stirs hatred against Bangladeshis</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/02/19/saudi/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/02/19/saudi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Md. Arafatul Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bangladeshi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Saudi-based website aims to stir hatred against 1.2 million Bangladeshis working in the oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Under www.antirat.com the website features page after page of alleged crimes and misdemeanours committed by Bangladeshi labourers documented with photographs, ranging from the serious &#8216;rape and running prostitution ring&#8217; to the frankly ridiculous &#8216;unhygienic cooking&#8217; practices.
A plethora [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Translated page of www.antirat.com</media:title>
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		<title>Bengal micro credit company honoured by Forbes</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/24/bandhan/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/24/bandhan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sabilaenun</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Rural Women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ASA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bandhan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Forbes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grameen Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

KOLKATA: What started as a fledgling organisation five years ago at Konnagar in West Bengal has now bagged the honour of being the world&#8217;s second largest micro finance institute after ASA in Bangladesh.
&#8220;Bandhan&#8221; has been listed second by prestigious business magazine Forbes, which ranks the Grameen Bank of Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus of Bangladesh as [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">enun</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Microfinance Institution Bandhan Now Serves More Than 500,000 Working Poor</media:title>
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		<title>Success that takes society into account</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/19/muhammad_yunus/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/19/muhammad_yunus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saiful Islam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Knowledge for Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grameen Bank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Muhammad Yunus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus founded a bank that has helped 7.5 million beggars and borrowers escape abject poverty in his native Bangladesh.Speaking to about 1800 people this week, he encouraged them to do what they could to change the world by using business techniques to solve everything from poverty to pollution.
&#8220;We can create [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Saiful Islam</media:title>
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		<title>Police record complaint against Ershad &#8216;henchmen&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/17/complaint-2/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/17/complaint-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jharna Roy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Erik]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[president HM Ershad]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shaptahik 2000]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The police Thursday recorded a complaint from a journalist that supporters of former president HM Ershad had &#8220;confined&#8221; him in his house for three hours. Journalist Masud Kamal filed a general diary with Gulshan Police Station.
Bidisha, estranged wife of Ershad, alleged that Kamal had been taken away from in front of her flat, where the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Jharna</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">http://www.shaptahik2000.com/</media:title>
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		<title>Pakistan blocks anti-establishment blogs</title>
		<link>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/15/pakistan_blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://voiceofsouth.org/2008/01/15/pakistan_blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Voice of South</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blocks blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after the Pakistan government passed a new law with tough punishment for cyber crimes, hundreds of anti-establishment blogs have been blocked, bloggers said.
Access to blogspot.com, a hosting domain that contains hundreds of blogs by Pakistani students and activists opposing President Pervez Musharraf&#8217;s rule and championing causes like the reinstatement of deposed judges, has [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">the government has banned access to blogs</media:title>
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