Hill Tribes of India
The term "hill tribe" was long and inexactly applied to the indigenous inhabitants of upland and mountain areas in South Asia. The hill tribes are and were culturall...
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DHAKA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Sunday rejected as
false and baseless allegations of continuing abuse of rights
of
tribal people in the country's Chittagong Hill Tracts, and
said they enjo...
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Sixty years after Roman Catholic and Presbyterian missionaries first converted large numbers of Taiwanese aboriginals in their leafy mountain villages, Christianity here is entering a new phase. Ad...
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Singapore (dpa) - A man who sprung a Thai woman out of a brothel
and planned to marry her has gone to Singapore's High Court to stop
the deportation of his wife-to-be, news ...
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Singapore (dpa) - A man who rescued a Thai woman from a brothel
suffered a setback in his hopes to marry quickly when Singapore's
High Court ruled that the bride-to-be must ...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Long used for hunting and as a sign of
masculinity, hunters in Vietnam's northern mountains have turned
their homemade shotguns into the local authorities, an ...
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More than 400 members of the Hmong hill tribe minority who have been on the run for decades from the communist government of Laos surrendered to the authorities there on Wednesday, supporters of th...
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Bangkok (dpa) - The Lao government on Wednesday denied reports
that authorities had arrested three US citizens of Hmong decent in
Vientiane, the capital.
"I'...
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PAYAO, Thailand, Nov 29 (Reuters) - More than a year after
a coup aimed at erasing Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's
legacy, parties running in next month's election are scrambling
to copy his p...
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PHNOM PENH, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Cambodia is considering
laying on hunting safaris for well-heeled foreign tourists in
its remote jungle-clad northeast, to the consternation of green
groups who say ...
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A woman who emerged from the jungles of Cambodia a week ago, burbling, grunting and walking bent over, is still giving up none of her secrets, even to the family that has taken her in as their pres...
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