Trading water is not a solution MNCs appear to have no qualms about "profaning" the "sacred, life-giving, goddess-like mother" by hawking her for a sheaf of dollars. Too bad, they seem to be saying, if a few poor are left thirsting by the wayside.
LIBERATION
Sex and the teenage girl Biology is destiny, and the brutally unfair outcome that adolescent sexuality can produce will never change.
CHINA
Fighting male tyranny Unmindful of the critics, Xie Lihua continues to remain the voice of China's rural women.
WHAT'S THE BUZZ Philip Durkin, principle etymologist for the Oxford English Dictionary, gave insight into the roots of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, identifying "sesquipedalian" (having many syllables) as the main component.
Fish rain... Workers load fish into a crushing machine in preparation for making the 'prahok' (fermented fish paste) at Chrang Chamres near Phnom Penh, on Wednesday. Cambodians crowd the country's river banks as the annual frenzy of making prahok gets underway. AFP
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