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From Global Geopolitics Net

• SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thailand Faces Flak for Backing Mekong Dams
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jul 29, 2010 (IPS) – Northern Thai villagers living on Mekong River’s banks are poised to join a growing tide of opposition against a planned cascade of 11 dams to be built on the mainstream of South-east Asia’s largest body of water. These communities, [...] […]
• JAPAN: Rising Wages Won’t Scare Investors Away from China
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Jul 29, 2010 (IPS) – Common business wisdom would have it that rising wages are bad news for foreign investors, but analysts here say that workers’ clamour for higher pay in Japanese factories in China will not send them packing from that country anytime [...] […]
• Developing Countries should be paid for Eco Disasters
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Martin Khor* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – The 20 billion U.S. dollar put aside by BP to pay for the effects of the Gulf oil spill contrasts with the lack of accountability of big firms that cause environmental harm in developing countries. In a widely publicised move [...] […]
• UN in a Blind Alley as Peace Eludes Darfur
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) – As the mandate, being carried out by the UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), comes to an end on July 31, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s report to the Security Council indicates that the situation in Sudan’s western region is [. […]
• Maldives Seeks Way out of Democracy Crisis
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Anand Kumar* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – Multi-party democracy in Maldives — an island nation in the Indian Ocean — is facing a major crisis after less than two years of its establishment. A bitter political struggle has emerged between the president and opposition-led national parliament [.. […]
• Views Differ on Fate of Food Aid Convention
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nirode Masson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis LONDON (IDN) – The food price spike followed by the financial and economic crisis has worsened global food insecurity. But beyond a grand commitment to doing more about food security, there is no agreement on specifics, says a new report. The specifics on [...] […]