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WSSD: Activists and President Agree – Time to Put Ideas Into Action
South African President Thabo Mbeki took a page from the book of leading environmentalists and focused on one word - implementation - as he opened the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Monday.WSSD: Credibility of Future UN Summits under Threat – Activists
The credibility of future UN summits will be undermined if countries like the United States, Canada and Australia succeed in pushing through their ‘'unilateral" and ‘'bilateral" agendas, warn activists gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).ENVIRONMENT: Thailand Wary of Carbon Credit Offer
Thai environmentalists are deeply suspicious of a World Bank offer to give 8 million U.S. dollars to a private company that is planning a biomass project, calling it a way for developed countries to dodge binding commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases./CORRECTED REPEAT/THAILAND: Activists Wary of ‘Green’ Offer from Rich Countries
Thai environmentalists are deeply suspicious of a World Bank offer to give 8 million U.S. dollars to a private company that is planning a biomass project, calling it a way for developed countries to dodge binding commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.WSSD-EAST ASIA: Real Action Needed, Not Another Document
With growing frequency, the summers in North-east Asia are providing the region's children a stark lesson about the environment they live in.WSSD-EAST ASIA: Real Action Needed, Not Another Document
With growing frequency, the summers in North-east Asia are providing the region's children a stark lesson about the environment they live in.ASIA: Anti-Globalisation Voices Gain from U.S. Scandals
The recent financial scandals in the United States are getting a warm reception among Asian critics of globalisation, who say they have helped expose the flaws in the economic model that is currently dominant in the world.ASIA: Moderate Muslims Troubled by Wahabis, But without U.S. Twist
Asia's moderate Muslims have unlikely allies that are giving legitimacy to a view they had asserted in the aftermath of the Sep. 11 acts of terror in the United States -- that Islam is not a monolithic faith, that there are many Islams.POLITICS: U.N. Envoy’s Visit to Burma Stirs Hope, Distrust
Although a U.N. special envoy ended his visit to Burma this week optimistic that its military rulers are keen to resume talks on democratic change, Burma watchers and exiles are more circumspect, saying the regime cannot be trusted.DEVELOPMENT-ASIA: Hybrid Rice Ruins Genetic Diversity — Critics
While Asia's premier rice research body pushes ahead with plans to sow more hybrid rice seeds in paddy fields across the continent, critics accuse it of ruining the diversity of the Asian rice fields.POLITICS: U.S.-ASEAN Pact Pushes Security above Human Rights in Region
A day after the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed an anti-terror pact with the United States, questions are being raised about the fate of human rights in this region, given the bilateral agreement's stress on security./CORRECTED REPEAT/HEALTH: Thailand Takes New Step in Fight against HIV/AIDS
Thailand's medical community has earned for the country new stripes as a leader in the fight to stall the spread of HIV - by working on a new drug regimen designed to further cut the virus' transmission rate from mother to child.HEALTH: Thailand Takes New Step in Fight against Anti-HIV/AIDS
Thailand's medical community has earned for the country new stripes as a leader in the fight to stall the spread of HIV - by working on a new drug regimen designed to further cut the virus' transmission rate from mother to child.POLITICS-SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Region Remains Islam’s Moderate Face
If U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was hoping to use his passage through South-east Asia this week to gauge how widespread Washington's latest bogey - Islamic extremism - is, then he should take comfort in the moderate voices coming from Indonesia and countries around it.LAOS: Abuses in Prison Show Poor Rights Record – Report
Prisoners in Laos are routinely beaten, burnt and threatened with death, the human rights lobby Amnesty International (AI) charges in a report released Friday on the widespread scale of torture in that country's prisons.DEVELOPMENT: Hybrid Rice Seeds a Boon to World’s Farmers – Experts
The push for hybrid rice seeds gathered momentum this week, with rice experts assembled here arguing that farmers the world over stand to reap a bigger harvest from the high yields that such grain would reportedly bring.BURMA: Time for U.N. Envoy to Address Ethnic Issues – Activists
When the U.N. special envoy to Burma arrives in that South-east Asian nation early August, Burma watchers and exiles will be looking to see what pressure he puts on Rangoon's military junta to end the flagrant attacks on the country's many ethnic groups./CORRECTED REPEAT/DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: AIDS Orphans Find Temple of Hope
A Buddhist temple tucked in a picturesque terrain of sloping hills covered with lush tropical foliage is offering hope to some of the most vulnerable children in northern Thailand - AIDS orphans.DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: AIDS Orphans Find Temple of Hope
A Buddhist temple tucked in a picturesque terrain of sloping hills covered with lush tropical foliage is offering hope to some of the most vulnerable children in northern Thailand - AIDS orphans.HEALTH: Cambodia Shows Gains in War on HIV/AIDS – Experts
Cambodia's healthy approach to combating the spread of HIV/AIDS has been identified as an example of a poverty-stricken nation that can stare the killer epidemic in the face -- with the hope of actually winning over it one day.TRADE: Thailand Relieved at EU’s Call for Cuts in Farm Subsidy
Thai trade officials are giving cautious cheer to the European Union's (EU) decision this week to reform Europe's hefty farm subsidies, saying Thai farmers stand to gain from the move.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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