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1. News - Asia - INDIA

   Indian police shoot dead 10 as unrest mounts in Assam

   Posted Feb 12th 2013, 11:49pm by AFP

   ... News Asia Assam Agence France-Presse in Guwahati Indian troops shot dead 10 people while two others died in clashes as machete-wielding rioters protested against local elections in the country’s restive northeast, officials said on Tuesday. Officials in Assam said some 100 homes were burned and 20 people, including a police official, were injured as rioters brandishing machetes ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1148980/indian-police-shoot-dead-10-unrest-mounts-assam
2. News - Asia - INDIA

   11 killed in clashes in India’s northeast

   Posted Feb 12th 2013, 04:30pm by Agence France-Presse in Guwahati

   ... in the the tea- and oil-rich state of Assam over the last two decades.   ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1148692/11-killed-clashes-indias-northeast
3. News - Asia - INDIA

   Floods, landslides displace 1 million in India; 33 dead

   Posted Sep 24th 2012, 04:22pm by Reuters in Guwahati

   ... spokesman AS Tobgay. In Assam, still recovering from deadly floods that hit the tea-growing state in July, eight people were killed and 20 were missing, police said. Floods displaced nearly one million in that state alone, and many were now sheltering in camps or beside roads, which tend to be built above the land they pass through, a senior official in Assam’s disaster ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1046069/floods-landslides-displace-1-million-india-33-dead
4. News - Asia - INDIA

   Indian tea estate owner, wife in Assam burned to death by angry workers

   Posted Dec 28th 2012, 12:00am by AGENCIES

   ... while the body of the wife was found lying in the kitchen," police officer A. Das said. The grisly attack occurred in Assam's tea-growing Tinsukia district, 500 kilometres east ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1113825/indian-tea-estate-owner-wife-assam-burned-death-angry-workers
5. News - Asia - BRIEFS

   Briefs, March 2, 2013

   Posted Mar 02nd 2013, 12:00am by AGENCIES

   ... in the past two months, officials said, as another death added to worries about a recent surge in killings. The attacks have taken place around the Kaziranga National Park in Assam state, home to more ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1167378/briefs-march-2-2013
6. Correction

   Posted Apr 18th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Tourism in Egypt Nile Correction: In last week's travel feature, the end point of the Nile cruise should have been Aswan, not Assam, which is, of course, in India. We apologise for the error, which was introduced in the editing process. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/711708/correction
7. Lifestyle - Food & Wine - RESTAURANTS

   Review: Cafe Malacca

   Posted Jan 03rd 2013, 12:00am by Susan Jung

   ... sauce. Even better was the Penang assam laksa (HK$82): a bowl of tart, mildly spicy tamarind-flavoured broth, with fish, noodles, pineapple, herbs and ginger flower. The rolled pandan-flavoured ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-wine/article/1118303/review-cafe-malacca
8. Love blossoms in war

   Posted Nov 28th 2010, 12:00am by Maseeh Rahman

   ... Kong. The woman succeeds in contacting her husband in Assam. The couple are finally reunited in Hong Kong. This is the story of Makam, a 600-page novel in the Assamese language ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/731846/love-blossoms-war
9. News - Asia

   Briefs, September 25, 2012

   Posted Sep 25th 2012, 12:00am by AGENCIES

   ... In India, floods have forced more than one million people to flee their homes in the northeastern state of Assam. Officials said 11 people drowned in separate incidents in the past week. Nearly 130 people were killed and six million displaced by the floodwaters in Assam two months ago, which came during India's June to September monsoon. AFP ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1046496/briefs-september-25-2012
10. News - Asia - INDIA

    Death toll in south India floods rises to 45

    Posted Nov 07th 2012, 05:55pm by Agence France-Presse in Hyderabad

    ... state of Assam after floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains. India cyclone kills 22, displaces 60,000 Evacuees return home after Indian cyclone Cyclone brings heavy rain, displaces thousands ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1077117/death-toll-south-india-floods-rises-45

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