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Dear Isis Friends and Partners,

The Board of Trustees and the staff of Isis International are pleased to announce the appointment of Cai Yiping as Isis International’s new Executive Director.

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Bangkok, Thailand - China may be the last big country standing in this period of global financial meltdown, even as much of its production would have explored new markets and consumers. With increasing and also alarming interests in Africa and other places in the developing world, the dragon in China is indeed in a resurgence in a scale that has never been seen before. But much remains to be seen in the public eye as well within China: How is its environment? How is its land? How is its people?

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Yogyakarta, Indonesia* - *“In disaster management, the victims are often wrongfully considered a single entity and at times are treated the same with regard to the type of aid they need.”

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Jennifer Barrientos (not her real name), 38 a nurse from Philippines, is among the increasing number of Filipina and Asian women who chased their futures in marriage with Korean men through the Korea Unification Church. Today, Castillo lives with her Korean husband in Busan, more than 200 miles from the capital Seoul.

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by May Cordova

[Editor’s Note: May Cordova has been living in Korea for nearly a decade. She is among the most active members of the Korea Filipino Wives’ Association, a support group dedicated to marriage migrants and in their daily negotiations as wives, mothers and in-laws in Korean family and society.]

My name is May Cordova. I am married to a Korean man and we have an 8 year old daughter. We live in Bucheon City in South Korea.

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Several foreign women jumped to their deaths from balconies of condominiums that defined Singapore's skylines. The Singaporean government may have learned from these incidents because of international pressure. While some amendments have been made on its laws, being a foreign domestic worker remains like being inside the lion's den.