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ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-UKRAINE: Kiev Determined To Keep Chernobyl Running
Critics of Ukraine's campaign to keep the Chernobylplant running at all costs, say the state is trying to put pressure on the West to come up with 1.2 billion dollars to soften the economic blow when the plug is finally pulled.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-UNITED NATIONS: Task Force to Strengthen U.N. Activities
New proposals to reform and strengthen United Nations activities in the environmental and human settlement sectors will tabled in Geneva next month, according to the executive director of the U.N. environment programme (UNEP), Klaus Toepfer.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-CAMEROON: Cameroon’s Animals are Fair Game for Illegal Hunters
Restaurant owners and their agents stop by the hundreds each morning at Yaounde's Elig-Edzoa market, not for the vegetables which were its only produce just about five years ago, but for the game meat that has made it famous here.ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN-INDIA: Eroding Rivers Wreak Havoc in Eastern India
Two silt-laden, turgid rivers are rapidly changing course in easten India, and threatening to submerge villages and towns, and fertile farmlands, both in India and Bangladesh.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-INDIA: HIV/AIDS Prompts Scramble for Aid
The promise of a 200 million dollar World Bank package to fight the galloping spread of HIV/AIDS in India has prompted non-government organisations (NGOs) to scramble for a piece of the action.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-LATIN AMERICA: ECLAC Criticises Education ‘Magic Potion’ Concept
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) cast aspersions on the regional governments' view of education as a sort of "magic potion" to cure social equity.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-CIS: Sexually Transmitted Disease Sweeps Ex- Soviet Union
While the rapidly rising incidence of HIV infection and AIDS in the former Soviet Union causes much concern, it is only one of a range of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) which are currently engulfing the region.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-COLOMBIA: Candidates Receptive to Rebel Offer for Peace Talks
The three leading presidential candidates to face off in Sunday's elections in Colombia are receptive to the offer put forth by the countrys largest guerrilla group to engage in peace talks with whoever is elected.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-SRI LANKA: More Aid Than Expected For War- Torn State
Donors offered Sri Lanka 780 million dollars in aid pledges Wednesday -- new funds for development assistance to sustain its economic reform efforts and rehabilitation projects in the war-affected areas.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-CONGO: An Administration in Shambles
The impression left with a visitor to government ministries in the Congo is that of being in a house gutted by a cyclone, but the disaster here had nothing to do with nature - it was man-made.DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-CURACAO: Government Gets the Thumbs Down
Living in Curacao for the past four years, all Calvin Vince seems to think about these days is getting his citizenship here and then leaving for Holland.DISARMAMENT: Defiant Pakistan Explodes Another Nuclear Device
Pakistan stepped up the pace of the arms race in South Asia by exploding another nuclear device Saturday in defiance of appeals from the U.N. Security Council, the United Statess and other nations.ECONOMY-PAKISTAN: Crippling Sanctions Dampens ‘N-Bomb’ Euphoria
Riding on a huge wave of public support for its decision to match India's recent nuclear tests, the Pakistan government appears to be in no mood now to back-off from the dangerous path of nuclear confrontation with arch-rival India.ECONOMY-AFRICA: Little Enthusiasm for Debt Initiative
There were few plaudits for an initiative aimed at easing the burden of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) when it came up for discussion at the African Development Bank (AfDB)'s Board of Governors meeting that ended here Friday.POLITICS-CUBA: Helms-Burton Act Bruised but Unbowed
The agreement reached this month between the United States and the European Union (EU) to limit the extraterritorial reach of the Helms-Burton Act on Cuba dealt a blow to multilateral solutions of trade disputes.ENVIRONMENT-TRADE: Environmentalists Fight Africa Trade Bill
U.S. Environmentalists are joining other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the fight against a bill to promote U.S. trade and investment in Africa.CHINA: Satellite Row May Spoil Clinton Visit, Beijing Fears
China is fretting over a 'satellite-for- cash' scandal now dogging the Clinton administration, worried that it may spoil the atmosphere for the U.S. president's long-awaited visit here in June.CHINA: Satellite Row May Spoil Clinton Visit, Beijing Fears
China is fretting over a 'satellite-for- cash' scandal now dogging the Clinton administration, worried that it may spoil the atmosphere for the U.S. president's long-awaited visit here in June.HEALTH-SINGAPORE: Making Smoking a Social Taboo
Smoking will become even more of taboo behaviour under a campaign by Singapore's government to use family and social pressure to get smokers to kick the habit.ENVIRONMENT: Cameroon’s Animals are Fair Game for Illegal Hunters
Restaurant owners and their agents stop by the hundreds each morning at Yaounde's Elig-Edzoa market, not for the vegetables which were its only produce just about five years ago, but for the game meat that has made it famous here.CHILDREN-SIERRA LEONE: Years of War Leave Many Scars
When a high-powered United Nations delegation came to Sierra Leone this week to collect first-hand information on the socio-economic situation, their first port of call was a series of interviews with children.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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