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TRADE: Supporing Arms Trade May Violate Market Principles
U.S. government support for the arms industry violates the first rule of market competition - concentrate resources on growth opportunities - say campaigners for converting defence resources to civilian use.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Privatisations Enter Their Juiciest Phase
The most lucrative phase of Brazil's privatisations process will open in the next few months, as the telephone companies are sold off, starting from July 15, to be followed by the electricity companies and others.RIGHTS-MEXICO: Amnesty Int’l Reports Rise in ‘Disappearances’
Amnesty International's latest report, released Thursday, introduced a new source of friction into the tense relations between human rights groups and the Mexican government by reporting a rise in "disappearances."POLITICS-UZBEKISTAN: Karimov Keeps His Gun Ready For Islamists
Beleaguered Uzbek president Islam Karimov, in Moscow for an economic summit this week, was looking for more than just business opportunities during his stay. He also wanted wider backing for his own battle against his Islamist opposi tion.TRADE-DEVELOPMENT: Ways To Regulate The Global Banana Trade
The gap between the giant transnational corporations that dominate the global trade in bananas and the ordinary agricultural workers who grow and pick them remains as wide as ever.ECONOMY-MIDDLE EAST: Fresh Conflicts Brewing In The Middle East
Away from the frantic efforts to resolve the Israel-Palestine issue, another kind of conflict is bubbling away in the Middle East -- that between economic reforms, favoured by the elite, and the common people of the region.POLITICS-TOGO: Opposition Split as Presidential Polls Approach
When Togolese voters go to the polls next month to elect a new president, they will have a choice between the incumbent President Gnassingbe Eyadema and a myriad of opposition candidates.PHILIPPINES: Sustainable Farming Cushions El Nino’s Bite
Nelson Perez thanks the day he decided, two years ago, to weed out synthetic inputs from the farm he tends in his village in the southern Philippines.PHILIPPINES: Sustainable Farming Cushions El Nino’s Bite //CORRECTED REPEAT//
Nelson Perez thanks the day he decided, two years ago, to weed out synthetic inputs from the farm he tends in his village in the southern Philippines.LABOUR-BRAZIL: Women Participate More in Union Activities
Women workers in Brazil are becoming more involved in union activities - historically dominated by men - and they have good reason to fight for their rights.ECONOMY-AFRICA: CFA Zone Trembles as the Euro Approaches
A mood of near panic has set in in the French-speaking African nations that share the CFA Franc as the countdown to the introduction of a common currency for the European Union (EU) goes into high gear.DEVELOPMENT: 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.THAILAND: NGOs Seek to Rescue Firm from Foreign Hands
A major bail-out operation -- led not by foreign money but by non-government organisations -- is underway in Thailand to 'save' an oil company with a popular record in social development programmes.POLITICS-CARIBBEAN: Leaders Remain Deadlocked in Search for Chief Justice
Attorneys in the Eastern Caribbean are increasingly voicing their impatience with the sub- region's Heads of Government over their failure to appoint an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Chief Justice.WOMEN-SRI LANKA: Private Violence Takes a High Toll
Ranjini, a pretty 24 year old, has walked into the office of Sri Lanka's pioneering Women in Need (WIN) organisation more than 20 times over two years for help, after being beaten black and blue by her husband.ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: Panic Grips the Banking Sector
The unprecedented closure of a local merchant bank has caused panic in Zimbabwe's financial sector once touted as the second most stable in Sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa.DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: No Magic Wand to Close Telecoms Gap
Since the advent of the information explosion, Africa remains marginalised, yet it provides an ideal environment for the new technologies, experts meeting in South Africa for 'Africa Telecom 98', say.CULTURE-PERU: By Their Names You Shall Know Them
President Alberto Fujimori would not be able to name his daughter Keiko if she were born today, according to a new regulation that forbids the use of names deemed extravagant, irreverent, contrary to public order, or foreign.DRUGS-PERU: White Collar Drug Use on the Rise
To the casual observer, Guido R. would be a typical Latin American business success story. At 33 years of age, the young executive with a transnational company wore expensive suits, drove a fancy car and lived in a luxury apartment.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Massive Protests After ETA Strikes Again
People began to gather outside town halls throughout Spain Wednesday to protest the violence waged by the Basque separatist organisation ETA, just minutes after the group killed a town councillor in Pamplona, 400 kms north of Madrid.POLITICS: Sudan Donates Food to Niger Amid Famine in the South
While thousands of people in Southern Sudan face starvation, the government announced Wednesday that it would donate 5000 tonnes of sorghum to Niger.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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