<rss><channel><item><title>ASIA: IRIN-Asia Weekly Round-up 107 15-21 January 2007</title><link>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/50e15c955ce5f8087a18b48719c611e3.htm</link><description>DUBAI, 22 January (IRIN) - AFGHANISTAN: Children work to support families CENTRAL ASIA: Labour migrants face bleak future in Russia CENTRAL ASIA: Ashgabat and Tashkent worst human rights offenders NEPAL: Humanitarian challenges remain despite Maoists entering parliament NEPAL: Unexploded ordnance....</description><pubDate>2007-01-23T07:46+0100</pubDate><source>alertnet</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>alertnet-2d7d37b8d8454a7f79a5ad85d64f4e12</guid><category>EnterpriseEurope</category><category>Society</category><category>CommunicableDiseaseCases</category><category>Immigration</category><category>UNbodies</category></item><item><title>Points of weakness in Internet cable network</title><link>http://digital.asiaone.com.sg/features/20070117_002.html</link><description>If the construction of new networks continues to follow previous patterns, suppliers will carry on building new lines along the same paths, meaning that the choke points will persist and the connectivity breakdown that we saw during the Taiwan quake might occur again.</description><pubDate>2007-01-22T04:50+0100</pubDate><source>AsiaOne</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>AsiaOne-0a46f946144b75982807803b49aa84f0</guid><category>Space</category><category>TerroristAttack</category><category>NaturalDisasters</category><category>MaritimeSafetyWorld</category><category>TREN-Security</category><category>MaritimeSafetyEurope</category></item><item><title>Moderate quake rocks Tokyo; no danger of tsunami</title><link>http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/15/asia/AS-GEN-Japan-Quake.php</link><description>TOKYO: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Japan early Tuesday, rocking buildings in the capital city but causing no tsunami. 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(AFP) 13 January 2007 WASHINGTON - The United States late Friday issued a tsunami warning for Russia, Japan and Markus Island in the Pacific Ocean following a strong earthquake east of the Kuril Islands. 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