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UN Calling Asia - a weekly magazine programme, in English, that keeps you in touch with UN developments covering Asia and the Pacific.

migrant women

Vietnam's economy is expanding fast as trade in manufactured goods continues to grow. But most of its people still live under dire conditions. As they try to escape poverty, a new kind of business is beginning to emerge, brides bound for Taiwan and South Korea. Since 2001, over 400 women - 4 per cent of the population - have married foreigners.

Pacific Islanders unite at the meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women

Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki

At the recent New York headquarters meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women, a concerted effort was made to bring together women from Pacific island countries to hear their concerns and to act on them. Two of them -- Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Executive Director of the Tonga National Center for Women and Children and Angeline Chand, Programme Officer Responsible for Gender with the Pacific Disability Forum, took time from their busy schedules to speak to UN Radio.

China's economic forecast: it's been hit but it's holding up

David Dollar

According to the World Bank, China's real economy has been hit hard by the global crisis, but it has been holding up. And although China's growth is slowing down, it is still likely to outgrow most other countries. UN Radio's Fan Xiao asked David Dollar, the World Bank's Country Director for China and Mongolia, just how seriously China has been affected by the global economic slowdown and when it's expected to recover.

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