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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the "toughest" place in the world to be mother and Finland is the best, according to Save the Children charity.
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Many are still living with the aftermath of the huge oil spill in 2010 - explore this video and click on the hotspots to find out more.
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There's a fear that the digital world will make us all the same. But that doesn't seem that well founded if you look at how widely differing cultures are using technology to express their identity and values. We look at the music sharing culture of Mali in West Africa as explored by musicologist Chris Kirkley and hear from the vibrant and intoxicating atmosphere of the mobile phone music market in Mali's capital Bamako. Back in the UK we look at the interesting way immigrant communities maintain their cultural ties through technology and the unexpected effect this has on the growth of immigrant communities.
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Austria’s Turkish community claimed a victory in its fight against Danish toy giant Lego yesterday after the firm agreed to withdraw a Star Wars toy set featuring a mosque-like building inhabited by an obese, hookah–smoking alien, following...
The importance of passing down the richness of Brunei's traditional arts and crafts to future generations was highlighted by Dato Paduka Hj Mohd Hamid bin Hj Mohd Jaafar, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, at the...
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Singapore has a diverse population of Chinese, Malay and Indian and seems readier than ever to celebrate its multi-ethnic history.
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For thousands of children around the world reunited, finally, with their parents after months or years kept apart by disaster, what we call Mother's Day will be a special cause for celebration.
Cheeky teenagers in South Korea and Japan are ordering dozens of cartons of McDonald's French fries and then digging in as part of so-called 'Potato Parties'.
As Korea continues to increase its soft power through cultural exports, we explore the growing power of the Korean Wave.
France's Académie française, official custodians of the French language, has taken its battle to fight the invasion of English and bad French to the internet with a new interactive web service.
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Gerald Butt recounts the daredevil antics of aviator Frank McClean, a largely forgotten Irishman who heralded Egypt's golden age of aviation.
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The spaces in the spectrum between television stations is being used to connect the most rural parts of Africa to the internet.
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The Norwegian government has backed a plan to create the world's first ship tunnel. But why has nobody built one before?
Korean Cultural Diffusion in Manipur
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The world is barely enough for Bjorn Kjos, co-founder, majority owner and chief executive of Norwegian Air Shuttle.
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Inside the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs – potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers – more fitted for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of northern lights, glaciers and musk oxen.
IT IS sad to see how the Brunei traditional culture is slowly being forgotten like many other cultures in the world, as a result of modernisation and lack of efforts to disseminate the knowledge to th...
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China's new leaders are tasked with governing an increasingly complex and powerful nation, writes the BBC's Damian Grammaticas.
Ronda Zelezny-Green: Mobile-based literacy projects can transform the lives of women in Africa and Asia, but access remains a barrier
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Park Geun-hye promises a tough stance on national security and an era of economic revival as she is sworn in as South Korea's president.
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Container ships have doubled in size in less than a decade. Are they growing too far too fast?
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