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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods


Ron Corben

BANGKOK - Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.
Q&A: Maternal Mortality Rates ‘One of the Saddest Cases’ in Asia
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews NOELEEN HEYZER, U.N. under-secretary general and head of UNESCAP
BANGKOK - Nearly 15 years after a landmark international conference to advance the rights and freedoms of women, the picture in the Asia-Pacific region is mixed, says a leading women’s rights advocate and senior United Nations official.
CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
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BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
ENERGY-TANZANIA: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning
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Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
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"This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror".
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Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
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BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
"This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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