Global News Blog / IPSTuesday, May 13, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 13 (IPS) – As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability [...]
ENVIRONMENT: ”Doctor” Nature in Danger
May 3, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Saturday, May 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Stephen Leahy* – Tierramérica CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 3 (IPS) – ”When we harm nature, we are harming ourselves,” says Aaron Bernstein, a doctor at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Death Row Numbers Raise Grave Doubts
April 30, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Wednesday, April 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Tahir Qadiry KABUL, Apr 30 (IPS) – By lifting the shroud of secrecy over the number of Afghans on death row — some 100 — the government has ended up raising grave doubts about the trial [...]
ECONOMY: IMF Reforms Itself, A Little
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By John Vandaele BRUSSELS, Apr 29 (IPS) – The poor have been given a little more say in the IMF. It is still a small step, but the biggest such in the last 60 years. The rich [...]
SOUTH AFRICA: Water Supply Proposal Sparks Controversy and Suspicion
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Steven Lang GRAHAMSTOWN, Apr 29 (IPS) – A plan to increase the supply of potable water to two coastal towns in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province is provoking heated debate. The 110 million dollar proposal to [...]
TRADE: Zimbabwe, ”A Hard Sell”
April 29, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Tuesday, April 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Apr 29 (IPS) – The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which ended this past weekend, was once celebrated as a forum to showcase the vast investment opportunities in the then bread basket [...]
AFRICA: Agricultural Extension Work Both Important and Under-valued
April 27, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, April 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI, Apr 27 (IPS) – At a time of international concern about the future of the world’s food supply, it’s a comment that gives pause for thought: ”I teach university students agriculture and extension but [...]
VALID REASONS FOR A MILITARY TAKE-OVER IN NEPAL
April 27, 2008 By
Global News Blog Sunday, April 27, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org By B.Raman “Ultimately, we will have to fight with the Indian army. That is the situation. Therefore, we have to take into account the Indian army. When the Indian army comes in with thousands and thousands of soldiers, [...]
POLITICS-US: Right Puts Obama in Media Crosshairs
April 26, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS April 25, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Bill Berkowitz* OAKLAND, California, Apr 25 (IPS) – The unveiling this week of a new campaign advertisement by the North Carolina Republican Party — using video of controversial remarks made by Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, the [...]
MIDEAST: The Anniversary Is Over, the Agony Is Not
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mohammed Omer RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, May 19 (IPS) – Holding up an old copper key, Yousef al-Hums settles down to retell the story of his eviction from what was once his home, and now is Israel. Because [...]