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21.10.2008, 06:02

The bleak plight of child cancer victims

Health campaigners have hit out at the poor quality of cancer care for children in Russia and are demanding improvements to bring it up to international standards. The disease kills hundreds of children every year in the country, with the survival rate of

09.11.2008, 13:27 1 comment

Children become latest source of renewable energy

Have you ever watched little kids playing on a playground and thought: “If only I could harness their energy?” That’s precisely what a group of green-minded U.S. inventors have done by transforming playground equipment into systems that genera

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Russian girl learns she's an African princess

It's the stuff of fairytales and fantasies. Shakespeare dabbled with it too. An abandoned orphan girl discovers she's a princess after all. But for one girl from a remote Russian village, fact became stranger than fiction.

28.11.2008, 06:28

Unlucky orphan trapped in red tape

An orphan in Siberia has suffered a double blow. Not only has he no parents – but now he has been stripped of a nationality. Murat, not yet two, was abandoned by his Uzbek mother. Later he was given Russian citizenship. But this has been revoke

09.12.2008, 05:28 1 comment

One man’s mission to save rejected babies

A man from Vietnam is on an incredible solo mission to cut the country’s abortion rate, one of the highest in the world. Tong Phuoc Phuc has opened his home as a refuge for abandoned babies and looks after more than 50. He has pledged to care for unwanted

Battle to cut baby death rates

Published: 29 November, 2008, 07:38


Population decline has been a problem in Russia for decades. Government has put in place a range of initiatives to reverse the downward demographic trend. Among them is a key programme to lower infant mortality rates.

 
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