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China to beef up inspections at NKorean border
SEOUL, South Korea - China will step up inspections along its border with North Korea during the Olympics to try to reduce the growing number of North Korean migrants, an official of South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday.
Nations:South Korea North Korea Activities:North Korean Refugee Crisis Source:(AP)
2008-07-22
US ban on visitors with HIV could end soon
WASHINGTON - A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.
Nations:Libya Saudi Arabia Russia People:John Kerry Source:(AP)
2008-07-16
New film aims to remind South Koreans of suffering to their north
Seoul, South Korea - In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, a group of activists hope to embarrass China into changing its policy toward North Korean refugees - accepting them as defectors from a harsh regime rather than returning them to North Korea as "economic migrants."
Nations:North Korea South Korea Germany Activities:North Korean Refugee Crisis Source:(Christian Science Monitor)
2008-07-09
Surging prices may force more people from homes: UNHCR
NAIROBI (AFP) - The head of the UN refugee agency warned Friday that instability created by surging oil and food prices may force increasing numbers of people from their homes in search of basic necessities.
Nations:India Kenya Ivory Coast Sudan Iraq Bangladesh Activities:Global Food Crisis 2007-8 Oil Crisis Source:(AFP)
2008-06-20
Flood waters threaten millions in China, quake refugees evacuated
BEIJING (AFP) - Surging waters in southern China's swollen Pearl river delta threatened millions of people on Wednesday as authorities raced to finish the evacuation of 110,000 people in the quake-hit southwest.
Nations:China People:Wen Jiabao Activities:2008 Southern China Flood Source:(AFP)
2008-06-18
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