pohsi | video journalist http://www.pohsiteng.com Poh Si Teng is a freelance video journalist and multimedia producer based in India. She is available for assignments across Asia. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:51:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Anticorruption Movement Leader Stirs Passions in India http://www.pohsiteng.com/anticorruption-movement-leader-stirs-passions-in-india/ http://www.pohsiteng.com/anticorruption-movement-leader-stirs-passions-in-india/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:34:03 +0000 admin http://www.pohsiteng.com/?p=163
More than 10,000 take to the streets of New Delhi to protest corruption.


An anticorruption activist in India is released from jail; Syrian forces fire on protesters; and China’s press plays down a brawl between American and Chinese basketball teams.


Widespread protests in New Delhi over corruption and the government’s handling of activist Anna Hazare.

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A New Delhi courthouse gets hit by the second terrorist bombing in less than four months, raising questions about India’s ability to provide security.


Reporter Poh Si Teng’s husband is caught in the Delhi bomb blast. Hours after a powerful explosion rocked central New Delhi, killing 11 people and leaving dozens more seriously injured, the city is still reeling.

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Greece’s parliament passes the austerity plan, averting an immediate financial crisis, but sparking violent protests for a second day.

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Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh are trying to figure out how the killing of three prominent doctors fit into the country’s systematic corruption.

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Gurgaon, a booming suburb of New Delhi has become the symbol for development in India. It seems to have everything, except a functioning citywide sewer, reliable electricity or water, or decent roads.

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As millions of Indians have moved to the cities for work, illegal and shoddy housing construction is mushrooming all over the impoverished neighborhoods of New Delhi to meet the demand.

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Wedding season is just around the corner, and soon the streets of Delhi will be full of marching brass bands in colorful, shiny, ill-fitting jackets and pants. No north Indian wedding seems to be complete without sonorous trumpets and drums playing classic Hindustani songs or the latest Bollywood item numbers.

But behind the raucous noise and bright lights, musicians face hardship, hierarchy and deferred dreams.

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An Indian employment agency is training tens of thousands of workers in an effort to circumvent the country’s strict labor laws, which protect workers but make it difficult for employers to fire them.

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Ahead of President Obama’s visit, young Indians shared their thoughts on the relationship between the two countries.

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