IPS Inter Press Service

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.

THAILAND: Flash Floods Warn of Climate Change

CLIMATE CHANGE: Kyoto Protocol Is a Lifeline for Island Nations

CLIMATE CHANGE: Coastal Mega-Cities in for a Bumpy Rid

Q&A: Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Han

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.

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

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

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.

RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1

CAMBODIA: Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival

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.

KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing

SLOVAKIA: Velvet Touch Brings Communists Back

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.

CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence

BIODIVERSITY: Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes

U.S.: Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
	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".

MIDEAST: U.S. Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day

MIDEAST: West Is East, When Israel Decides

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

ENVIRONMENT: Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise

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

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

CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed

RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
	Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.

AFRICA: Growing Use of Cellphones for Family Planning

Q&A: Recognise the Benefits of Slowing Population Growth

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.

CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence

RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1