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RIGHTS-MALAYSIA: Cloud Treatment of Indonesians
During a confinment of more than one month, no vistors ever came to see the patient in bed number 21, of ward two at the Kuala Lumpur general hospital.POLITICS-YEMEN: North-South Divide Still Scars Yemeni Development
Approaching its eighth year as a unified state and four years on from a brief, bitter civil war, Yemen, the most populous country in the Arabian Peninsula, struggles to exorcise the ghosts of civil war and north-south Yemeni rivalry .DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Children Find a Home in the Circus
Some of the children wear the same tattered clothes daily, but they all turn up for practice each day to prepare for their star debut in the circus.FINANCE-ASIA: Warnings on East Asian Crisis
Although East Asia's financial crisis is "more serious and sustained than anyone first thought," the ailing economies must push ahead with deregulations, cuts in government spending and banking reforms, a new study argues.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Civilization Destroying Great Pharmacy
Nature is the most illustrious pharmacy in the world, able to cure illnesses that continue to perplex modern science, but civilization seems intent on its destruction, say the shamans (traditional healers) of Brazil.ENVIRONMENT: Post-Rio Failures Make World Less Safe
The world would be an ecologically safer place today if recommendations made at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro had been implemented by now, according to the head of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF).LABOUR-INDIA: Feeble Laws Fail to Dent Shipbreaking Industry
The shipbreaking industry in India provides the best example of how workers are exploited by a business that follows no rules except that of profitability.POLITICS-US: Tug-of-War on Cuba Policy
Two reports circulating in the United States during the past week illustrate the tug-of-war that is still going in regarding U.S. policy toward Cuba.RELIGION BULLETIN-SUDAN: Radical Islamic Groups Reject Proposed Constitution
A radical Islamic group here has rejected Sudan's proposed constitution which it says has placed Islamic laws on equal footing with customary laws, and has permitted non- Muslims to hold top political posts in the country.RELIGION BULLETIN-MALAYSIA: AIDS a Battle Against Religious, Cultural Taboos
The rites were Muslim. First, a 'doa' (prayer) was read, after which the wrapped body of the dead was lowered to the ground. The three persons present then took turns throwing a handful of earth each on the body, as dictated by Muslim custom.RELIGION BULLETIN-JAMAICA: The Bible in the Language of the People
An attempt by a local religious group to translate the Bible from English to Patois, the dialect of the Jamaican people, is causing quite a debate in this northern Caribbean island.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-PANAMA: Agrochemicals a Necessary Evil
After a three-year probe, Central American agricultural experts have recommended a more rational use of chemicals on farmlands to end the deterioration of human health and environmental standards in the region.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-BRAZIL: Sao Paulo’s Great Open-Air Sewer
Part of the 2,400 kms long Tiete river, that links Sao Paulo with MERCOSUR through the Tiete-Parana system, is in danger of becoming one of the the world's longest open-air sewers, say environmentalists.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-BOLIVIA/BRAZIL: Unite In Energy Projects
Bolivia and Brazil, despite the differences in their economic standing, are joining together in two giant energy projects to sell electricity and natural gas from Bolivia.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-UNITED NATIONS: Third World Needs To Assert Itself, Says Activist
A leading environmental and women's activist says that developing nations need to assert themselves politically at the United Nations, where the United States and other western nations still call the shots.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-PERU: Consumer Power Spreads its Wings
Consumer organisations in Peru, tired of being let down by the official institutions which should protect them, have gone independent, proposing consumer boycotts on controverisal products and services.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-CAMEROON: Breaking The Cycle Of Poverty
In a thatched hut here, a group of 25 students sit on mats spread on the floor. This hut, known here as "boukarou", is where the children of Djingliya, a remote village situated in the Mandara Mountains in Cameroon's F ar North Province, go to school.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-AFRICA: Few Countries Sign Up For Satellite Phone System
African countries continue to drag their feet on leaping into the age of information technology with only 12 of the continent's 53 countries so far signed up for the launch of the world's first satellite telephone system later this year.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-GROUP OF 77: Globalisation Marginalising the South
The growing trend toward globalisation and liberalisation has further marginalised developing countries from the mainstream of the world economy, says the of head the Third World coalition 'Group of 77.'DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-LATIN AMERICA: Books not Bombs, says Arias
Latin America has no choice but to cut military spending and increase investment in education if it wants to develop and become more competitive, said Oscar Arias, 1987 Nobel Prizewinner and former president of Costa Rica.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-UKRAINE: Chernobyl Fund Evokes Little Donor Sympathy
The international community has offered little sympathy - and hardly any funds - to the United Nations in its efforts to help victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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