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	<title>Correspondent&#039;s Notebook</title>
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	<description>Each week, a Radio Australia journalist or commentator offers a personal perspective on a major news story or current issue from the Asia Pacific region. Our own correspondents, specialists and invited guests provide the background and recount the personal experiences that go along with covering news and current affairs.</description>
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		<title>In the heart of Australian politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio Australia recently farewelled its esteemed Canberra correspondent, Linda Mottram, who has been reporting from the Australian capital for two and a half years. Radio Australia reporter, Joanna McCarthy, will be filling her shoes for the next three months. Here she tells us about adjusting to life as a reporter in the nation&#8217;s political hub. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/notebook/in-the-heart-of-australian-politics</link>
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		<title>Make-up of a suicide bomber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a year since the Moscow Metro was hit by a terrorist attack, carried out by the so-called Black Widow suicide bombers. The ABC&#8217;s Moscow correspondent, Norman Hermant, travelled to the village home of one of the bombers to speak to her father. One year ago, Mariam Sharipova, a 28-year-old teacher with degrees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/notebook/makeup-of-a-suicide-bomber</link>
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		<title>Despair on the Mekong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The controversial plan to build the first in a series of dams on the Mekong River has local communities fearing the impact on agriculture and fish stocks, concerns which have not yet been heard. Independent scientific advice recommends the dam projects be frozen. Zoe Daniels went to investigate. Evidence shows heavy machinery has already been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/notebook/despair-on-the-mekong</link>
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		<title>One town&#8217;s strength</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thousands of people are still unaccounted for after Japan&#8217;s earthquake and tsunami, and efforts continue to reduce the danger emanating from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Nerves remain on edge, millions of people are without water, power and fuel &#8211; and hundreds of thousands of others are homeless in freezing conditions. Japan correspondent Stephen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/notebook/japanese-show-strength-in-wake-of-destruction</link>
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