There are very few election posters on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar's commercial center and its former capital, and the city is unusually quiet in the evenings, which some residents attribute to a fear of election-related violence.
Not all have applied, however, which advocates attribute to a fear of registering with the government, as well as application fees of nearly $500.
In Tunisia, where more than 100,000 evacuees have arrived for processing near the border with Libya, the authorities were still puzzling over the sharply lower outflow of refugees, which most attributed to a combination of fear by the migrants and intervention by the Libyan government.
Once again this fear is attributed to a perceived lack of control by staff and included fears of patients harming themselves and others.
This fear was attributed to a number of reasons including among others; shyness, poor hygiene and disease conditions that women may not want to expose.
Positive attitudes towards breast mammography were reported; however, these women also described negative feelings of fear and anxiety, attributed to a lack of understanding about the screening process.
Interestingly, for the women in our study, the initial reduction in levels of fear and anxiety was attributed to a 15 min section in the first training session where the midwife presented a short explanation of the physiology behind labour and birth.
The ninth monthly fall in a row was attributed to fear of an American slowdown, the threat of higher interest rates and the promise of heavier taxes.Industrial production in the euro area increased by 1.8% in August compared with the previous month, thanks to strong activity in Portugal, Luxembourg and Belgium.
