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The women in India building a road to a new lifeThe women in India building a road to a new life
The women in India building a road to a new life - TheIndianSubcontinent News
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John Allen Chau: Do missionaries help or harmJohn Allen Chau: Do missionaries help or harm
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"You guys might think I'm crazy in all this But I think it's worth it to declare Jesus to these people."

These were some of the last words in the final letter John Allen Chau sent to his parents before he was killed by the people

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'Hating yourself into invisibility''Hating yourself into invisibility'
Young Asian poets in the UK share their stories - TheIndianSubcontinent News
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Google urged to drop Chinese 'Dragonfly' projectGoogle urged to drop Chinese 'Dragonfly' project
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Staff at Google have called on the search giant to end work on a controversial search engine project for China.

Called Dragonfly, the search engine would be a censored version developed with the aid

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Fehmida Riaz: Pakistan poet who dared to talk about female desireFehmida Riaz: Pakistan poet who dared to talk about female desire

Fehmida Riaz, who died in Pakistan last week, was not just another poet, fiction writer or translator. She broke social taboos and set new standards in Urdu literature, writes M Ilyas Khan.

Riaz was a compulsive political animal who unapologetically lived her ideology rather than bend it to the demands of different situations.

Born in what is now

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The fight over the right to name Australian placesThe fight over the right to name Australian places
Image:Last year's marriage equality celebrations on what is now known as "Equality Green"

When should a public place be renamed The debate is often complex. In Australia, many would like to see names reflect a more modern, equal nation. Gary Nunn reports from Sydney.

In November last year, 30,000 Australians gathered biting their nails in Sydney's

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