23230 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://ec.europa.eu/echo/where/asia-and-pacific/thailand_enThailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia are the largest host countries for refugees in southeast Asia. Nonetheless, they are not signatories to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Although these countries may be willing to increase protection space, which will result in a more....Sat, 09 Mar 2019 04:43:00 +0100EC-27555e7266c26c3d6dd6ac4a4a60007d20190309044300https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/03/08/new-york-times-writes-architect-julia-morgans-obit-62-years-later/Looking back, the first Saturday of February in 1957 doesn’t sound like it was a particularly newsy day. According to OnThisDay.com, the United Nations adopted a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt. And the play “Candide” closed in New York after just 73 performances.Fri, 08 Mar 2019 20:57:00 +0100eastbaytimes-5d6286d757248361774ab8528b970bb620190308205700https://thediplomat.com/2019/03/us-asia-strategy-beyond-the-quad/Last year, some five months after the revival of the “Quad” — the loose grouping of maritime democracies comprising the United States, Japan, Australia, and India — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi compared the process to “seafoam in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean: they may get some attention, but soon will dissipate.Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:25:00 +0100thediplomat-net-1f4dc526e005f8e9749a948b66d77a7a20190308182500http://www.haitian-truth.org/from-mud-cakes-to-earthquakes-haiti-faces-rising-malnutrition/Pictures landed from Haiti the other day showing a woman crouched on the side of a street fashioning clay-like medallions with a spoon. At first sight, the flat light-brown shapes laid out on canvas looked like pottery, but the caption read “a resident prepares mud cakes in the zone of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince”.Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:50:00 +0100haitian-truth-9bfe9713ce9fb2fcc006e428e15e3c0520190308165000