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...ACTION ASIA www.actionasia.com SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF Plan your next diving adventure in Thailand or trekking excursion through Nepal. The "where to go when" tool is especially helpful: match an activity with a location and date and the site tells you what the weather will be like...
...waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going live would be possible, but with the time difference between Nepal and the U.S., the size of the audience wouldn't be worth the effort. Not that it's worth the effort now - financially. Mountainzone's demise proved yet again that free content can be a leaky business model. But being connected gives a profile boost, making sponsorship easier...
...that binds Asia together? Long grain rice? Pegged currencies? Excessive humidity? McDonald's, free trade and air conditioning are eradicating those common cultural touchstones. And now the last great Asian unifier?thick, leaded, URBAN SMOG?is under threat by culturally insensitive Europeans. Last year, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, with technical assistance from Denmark, introduced a clean alternative to the three-wheeled, polluting TEMPOS and TUK-TUKS that ply Asia's cities. More than 600 electric three-wheelers now operate in Kathmandu, and while they are cleaner and safer than their internal combustion counterparts, we mourn the passing...
...SEPARATED. JAMUNA and GANGA SHRESTHA, 11 months, Siamese twins from Nepal whose heads had been fused together from birth; in Singapore. A team of 20 doctors worked in shifts around the clock to complete the complicated, four-day-long operation...
...Nepal has signed all of the appropriate international conventions and treaties on gender and women, but has little to show for it. Maternal mortality is high?more than 1,000 deaths per 100,000 live births. Only 29% of women are literate, compared with 50% of men. "If we could get some admission that women aren't slaves or possessions of men, then eventually they would be free to play a full role in society," says activist Uprety. "Right now they're little better than pack animals...