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The good news is that high default rates may be less painful in places whose sub-prime problem sits atop an economic boom.
ECONOMIST: America's property crisis
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The territory does not have a looming sub-prime mortgage problem, and local lenders are well capitalised.
ECONOMIST: Wall Street's financial troubles hit Hong Kong
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The committee said a lack of data from countries with some of the worst death tolls, a tendency to under-report maternal deaths and the use of national averages all meant it can be hard to establish the true extent of the problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
BBC: Last Updated: Sunday, 2 March 2008, 00:25 GMT
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The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad says the sale of sub-standard and expired medicine is a common problem in Pakistan.
BBC: Pakistan 'toxic syrup' kills 16 in Lahore
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However, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has warned that if the problem is not sorted soon, a sub-standard pitch could damage England's 2018 World Cup bid.
BBC: Groundsmen's group invited to Wembley pitch meeting
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Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.
ECONOMIST: South Korea dumps the past, at last
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The holistic vision of the programme is evident in the six learning strands within the Accreditation and Equivalency Sub-Programme, namely communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, sustainable use of resources and productivity, self-development, a sense of community and expanding one's world vision.
UNESCO: Education
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India, Turkey, some countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia are particularly faced with this problem.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
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"I can say we have no problem in crisis management, " deputy ministry spokesman Wee Yong-sub told reporters.
NPR: SKorea: North Korea Moved Missile To East Coast
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What they've done is they have taken something which was a problem, a necessity and turned it into a in into a new sub-genre.
BBC: George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
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One of the participants, Sub-Inspector Bikram Khadka, said the yoga camp had helped him realise how to take his weight problem.
BBC: Nepal uses yoga to 'slim down' police