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Green groups say Indonesia deforestation ban 'weak'
3 May 2012

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File photo shows Greenpeace activists displaying a protest banner with a message "APP stop destroying tiger forest" at the PT. Tebo Multi Agro concession affiliated with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in the province of Jambi.

AFP - A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticised a moratorium on deforestation as "weak", saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of the country's carbon-rich forests.

Greenpeace, which is leading the coalition, said government maps that mark protected areas exclude 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres) of peatland -- biodiverse swamp-like forests that hold rich carbon reserves. Greenpeace said the government must review all existing logging permits on the country's natural forests and peatland, and improve governance based on an accurate set of maps. "The government cannot hope to improve forest governance and ensure the effectiveness of the moratorium without taking these crucial steps," Greenpeace Southeast Asia political campaigner Yuyun Indradi said in a statement.

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Concern in New Zealand at 'possum' drinking craze
3 May 2012

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AFP - Authorities in New Zealand raised concerns Thursday about a student drinking game called "possum", in which participants sit in trees downing alcohol until they fall to the ground in a drunken stupor.

The craze has reportedly swept the South Island city of Dunedin, which has a large student population, leaving public parks strewn with glass, litter and vomit.

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N. Korea camps 'house the desperate, not dissidents'
3 May 2012

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North Korean soldiers march with a portrait of the country's founder Kim Il-Sung during a military parade in Pyongyang on April 15, 2012.

AFP - A new report on North Korea's notorious political prison camps shows that many of those jailed in recent decades were desperate people seeking food or work overseas rather than dissidents.

Other offences were even more trivial, it says: one female former student was serving a term for having a western-style dance with a foreigner, another student was incarcerated for singing a South Korean song. An entire family was thrown into a camp after the father forgot to refer to the state's late founder Kim Il-Sung as "Great Leader" during an ideological session.

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