UN Calling Asia
Throngs of girls welcomed UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova to Afghanistan on 18 May as she began an official three-day visit to the country. After visiting a school and…
24 May 2013 / Listen /Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh
Cyclone Mahasen has been moving across the Indian Ocean, killing at least four people in Bangladesh earlier this week. Kirsten Mildren of the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) says they are concerned about…
17 May 2013 / Listen /Update on the Bangladesh building collapse
More than 700 people were killed and over 2,500 injured when an 8-story factory building collapsed in Bangladesh…
9 May 2013 / Listen /Zero Hunger challenge launched to end hunger in Asia and the Pacific
“It is unacceptable that in the 21st century, with all of our technological and agricultural expertise, more than…
2 May 2013 / Listen /Assessing the damage from the China earthquake
![Children displaced by an earthquake in China. [UNICEF Photo]](http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CHINESE-CHILDREN-QUAKE.jpg "CHINESE CHILDREN QUAKE")
More than one and a half million people have been affected by the recent earthquake which rocked the Sichuan…
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