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...Part of the challenge of implementing pro-breastfeeding legislation, in the developing world, has been the amount of resources and the determination needed to see the process through. In August this year Vietnam's Health Ministry announced the discovery of dozens of violations of the country's formula labeling rules. In its latest Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules report from 2007, IBFAN documents over 3,000 Code violations, committed by 12 companies in 67 countries, and collected since 2004. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...cuts have eviscerated it down to little more than a contract-management agency. USAID officials, who did not make themselves available for this article, told Congress this past summer that they are rapidly staffing up for Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the agency may soon have its biggest footprint since Vietnam. Currently the dependence on highly paid consultants means at least half of every development dollar stays...
...coastal cities are to climate change. Breakneck growth and dilapidated infrastructure have already made flooding a fact of life in many cities. Now urban Asia must brace for sea-level rises, tidal surges, extreme weather and other climatic horrors. From ports in China and India to delta populations in Vietnam and Burma, this fast-developing region has most of our planet's urban dwellers - and its most vulnerable cities. Asia is not alone, however. From Mombasa to Miami, climate change imperils 3,351 cities lying in low-elevation coastal zones, says UN-HABITAT, the U.N. agency for human settlements. Places...
...neat approach, one that emphasizes how understanding the people closest to you--the father who takes a much younger second wife, the defensive gay brother who comes home with an adopted baby from Vietnam, or your newly contrary teenage daughter--can sometimes feel like an anthropology project...
...published in the New York Times on Saturday. “The schools in Singapore are world-class, they’re close by, and they’re a lot cheaper,” said Harvard student Michelle B. Nguyen ’13, who was born in Vietnam and attended high school in Singapore. William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, dean of admissions and financial aid, noted the dramatic increase in applicants from China in particular. At a mere 50 applicants a decade ago, application numbers from the world’s most populous country rose each...