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MALAYSIA: Food Futures Behind Rising Prices
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, May 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Anil Netto PENANG, May 6 (IPS) – With stock markets and the property sector in the United States weakening, speculative investors are turning to fuels and the food sector as a ”safe haven”, driving up [...]
BOLIVIA: Violent Pro-Autonomy Election Day in Santa Cruz
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Franz Chávez SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, May 4 (IPS) – At least eight people were injured in clashes between backers of the autonomy referendum held Sunday in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz and supporters of the [...]
Q&A: ”We Mustn’t Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day”
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Paul Verryn JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) – Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country’s political struggles. Born in 1952 in [...]
BRAZIL: Leading Agroscience Has Few Links to Small Farmers
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava* – Tierramérica RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (IPS) – Brazil has the most advanced agricultural science and technology system of the world’s tropical countries, with an array of environmental and high-production solutions, but which rarely reach [...]
CAMBODIA: Sees Opportunity in Rising Food Prices
Global News Blog / IPSSunday, May 18, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, May 19 (IPS) – Cambodian government sees opportunity for this impoverished country in the global rise in food prices that could help turn the fortunes for its agrarian economy. But, while Khmer and foreign [...]
US/IRAQ: ”Divide and Rule” Strategy Called Shortsighted
Global News Blog / IPS Saturday, May 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, May 3 (IPS) – Five years since U.S. president George W. Bush’s infamous ”Mission Accomplished” speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually ”accomplish” the mission that could [...]
Female Factor Key to Human Rights
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Fatima Asmal DURBAN, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) – Gender training for peacekeeping operations "is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment," says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The growing international [...]
PERU: Government Lashes Out at Human Rights Groups
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Ángel Páez LIMA, May 2 (IPS) – The Peruvian government, with the backing of the parliamentary bloc that supports former President Alberto Fujimori, has unleashed a campaign against non-governmental organisations that defend human rights, according to [...]
INDIA/IRAN: Course Correction
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI, May 2 (IPS) – Relations between India and Iran, which deteriorated over the past three years from traditional friendship and warmth into mutual suspicion and tension, have started looking up again. [...]
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