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According to figures released by Housing New Zealand under the Official Information Act and published in the Sunday Star Times, there are 502 people in New Zealand living in garages, campgrounds, cars, caravans or on the streets. All of these people..
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Nigeria — A wary peace has settled over this strategic region, a major world oil supplier and for years a combustible nexus of third world militancy, deprivation and...
made popular Nov 27 2009
In all the worry and flurry about terrorism and ongoing political turmoil, the country’s leadership seems to have ignored the basic necessities and living conditions...
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There is a feisty old woman in every village. In Maparanhanga, a remote village in Mozambique, reached by a several-hour-trip through potholes held together by scraps...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Every year we celebrate independence day with a lot of hype and ceremony, we stand up for the national anthem nd sing in unison jana gna mana adhinayaka jaya he...We...
made popular Oct 26 2009
I will say why not?
At least I have no answer to this. I wonder why despite being the oldest profession & an indispensable one prostitution does not command...
made popular Oct 23 2009
Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...
made popular Oct 21 2009
“Even a dog in any European Union country enjoys better living conditions than we do here,” complained Danush Ademi, a Kosovar MP representing the Ashkali...
made popular Oct 20 2009
I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...
made popular Oct 20 2009
There really should a comedy sitcom dedicating to the lives of Persian Gulf princes. There is endless material for laughter. “Those Gulf Royals” would...
made popular Oct 19 2009
The poverty-stricken nation of Niger is hitting back after a UN report branded it the world’s worst place to live.
Niger’s Institute of Statistics plans to...
made popular Oct 9 2009
Reporting from Toribio, Colombia - Craving adventure and escape from his broken home, Jerson enlisted with leftist guerrillas when he was in his early teens. He saw it...
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President Museveni’s brother General Caleb Akwandwaho, popularly known as Salim Saleh recently declared his wealth to the inspector of government. In his briefing...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Kenya, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations, is being targeted by Western paedophiles who are exploiting the country’s poverty and lax law enforcement...
made popular Sep 24 2009
Scores of women, many of them married and with children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of the port city’s...
made popular Sep 23 2009
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The Indian Prime minister addressed top government officials a month ago and told them that the system was ridden with corruption. I did not...
made popular Sep 23 2009
Denise de Oliveira lost her job as a janitor in June when she had to stay home to care for her 13-year-old son, who had pneumonia. The 45-year-old single mother of four...
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Each day, when I read through dozens of articles on the internet in an attempt to filter out those that I wish to highlight on my main page, “The Bearded...
made popular Sep 22 2009
It is a year since the world reverberated after the fall of the once mighty Lehman Brothers and the cataclysmic events that followed. There is a lot of soul searching...
made popular Sep 21 2009
It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Villagers march more than 300 kilometers from northwest Cambodia to ask the prime minister to save their homes from developers. Some 400 families in the country’s...
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Practical. You know he’s home when it’s all piled up like that, because he’s under it. And it’s all flat and sad when he goes elsewhere.
So he’s at home in...
made popular Dec 22 2008
Well, um, I guess I must be. Or should I say I was. (Ok, I still am....)
I am writing this because I was prompted to do so by the above photo which I took a couple of...
made popular Dec 8 2008
According to the New York Times, children forced to sell their bodies in the US in order to survive are processed by the authorities as criminals.
In Venezuela, the...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Life in Canada isn’t as rosy as all Canadians would like to believe, as a matter of fact, we can often be closer to living on the streets then we all think. I know...
made popular Apr 30 2008
Every night across Australia 22,000 teenagers are homeless.
I recently wrote an article about Homelessness in Australia. A part of the inspiration for that article...
made popular Apr 24 2008
I have a friend that I have not seen for a couple of years. He is a really nice guy. He is intelligent and articulate. He is a skilled artist and graphic designer. ...
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