Inter Press Service English News Wire back issues from June 2008:
IRAQ: WAR DEAD TOTAL MAY BE AN UNDERCOUNT, SAYS U.S. GROUP
Jun 02, 2008; ... Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BAQUBA, Iraq, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The real death toll in Iraq is far higher than even the highest declared in official counts, many Iraqis say."The U.S. military benefits from hiding the ...
CHINA: SCULPTOR DRAWS ATTENTION TO RESTRICTIVE BEAUTY NORMS
Jun 02, 2008; ... Bruce Lim Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Traditional norms in China dictate that women should strive for hourglass figures and shiny, long hair. Chinese artist Xiang Jing, however, is challenging these edicts by ...
Q&A-MALAWI: FISH FARMERS STRUGGLE TO RESTORE CHAMBO STOCKS
Jun 02, 2008; ... Steven Lang Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa, May 31, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Fishermen on Lake Malawi have depended for centuries on "chambo" fish to feed their families without disrupting the ecosystem, but following the start of ...
U.N.: BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT YIELDS FEW MONETARY COMMITMENTS
Jun 02, 2008; ... Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BONN, Germany, May 31, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The world community took some careful steps toward slowing the biodiversity crisis at the recent U.N. meeting in Bonn, while emphasizing the need for urgency and ...
AFRICA: MINING BOOM IS UNLIKELY TO BENEFIT LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Jun 02, 2008; ... Aileen Kwa Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 GENEVA, May 31, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The prices of oil and metals are high these days, and mining companies increasingly investing in oil in Angola and Uganda, and in metals in Madagascar and Ghana.This "new ...
BURMA: SOUTHEAST ASIAN ASSOCIATION LEADS LATEST RELIEF EFFORT
Jun 02, 2008; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, May 31, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Four weeks after Cyclone Nargis swept through the populous Irrawaddy Delta in Burma, a regional effort to help the victims is slowly grinding into shape....
CUBA: IBERO-AMERICAN JOURNALISTS HOLD SUMMIT ON GENDER ISSUES
Jun 02, 2008; ... Dalia Acosta Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 HAVANA, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Changing society to bring about greater respect for diversity requires the participation of the mainstream press, in addition to the good work done by alternative media agencies ...
PERU: FORENSIC TEAM FINDS ARMY BULLETS IN MASS GRAVE FROM 1984
Jun 02, 2008; ... Angel Pez Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 LIMA, Peru, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- It was not hard for residents of the Peruvian village of Putis to find the remains of the victims of the 1984 massacre: Some of the victims' bones were exposed to the ...
JAPAN: NGO URGES GOVERNMENT TO LEAD FIGHT ON AIDS IN AFRICA
Jun 02, 2008; ... Ramesh Jaura Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A key document emerging from the fourth round of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development has failed to address HIV/AIDS in the region, according to an ...
AFRICA: REPORT CALLS FOR U.S.-CHINA COOPERATION ON DEVELOPMENT
Jun 02, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 WASHINGTON, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The U.S. and Chinese governments should coordinate their policies toward Africa in order to enhance the effectiveness of their economic aid and investment, to further political ...
TURKEY: FIGHT WITH KURDISTAN WORKERS' PARTY ESCALATES
Jun 02, 2008; ... Mohammed A. Salih Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 WASHINGTON, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The intensifying fight between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers' Party is introducing a new element of instability to the Middle East.Some of the most chronic crises ...
U.S.: WASHINGTON GRADUALLY LEANS TOWARD TALKS WITH IRAN
Jun 02, 2008; ... Analysis by Omid Memarian* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BERKELEY, Calif., May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential aspirant, has dismissed Sen. Barack Obama's willingness to talk directly with U.S. adversaries such as Iran ...
CARIBBEAN: LEADERS SEEK INVESTORS TO BACK FARMING PROJECTS
Jun 02, 2008; ... Bert Wilkinson Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Caribbean governments are hosting a global forum in Guyana early next month, in hopes of attracting international investors to the languishing agriculture ...
BOLIVIA: AUTONOMY CONTROVERSY IMPEDES INDIGENOUS MOVEMENT
Jun 02, 2008; ... Franz Chvez Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The autonomy movement in Bolivia's wealthier eastern provinces has somewhat overshadowed the indigenous community's demand for empowerment and greater participation in ...
U.S.: PROTESTERS ADOPT NAMES OF GUANT NAMO DETAINEES IN COURT
Jun 02, 2008; ... Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 NEW YORK, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- More than 30 activists are facing trial in Washington, D.C., for their Jan. 11 protest against the indefinite detention of alleged terrorism suspects at the U.S. military base ...
CUBA: URBAN FARMERS 'MAKE SOIL FROM SCRATCH'
Jun 02, 2008; ... Patricia Grogg Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 CINAGA DE ZAPATA, Cuba, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The soil in Cinaga de Zapata is salty, shallow, stony and hard to plow, but this Cuban municipality is nevertheless home to more than 140 urban farmers....
CANADA: SCANDAL DRIVES FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER TO RESIGN
Jun 02, 2008; ... Am Johal Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 VICTORIA, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Canada's gaffe-prone foreign affairs minister, Maxime Bernier, resigned suddenly this week after revelations that he left sensitive and confidential government documents at the home ...
REPORT: GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE COSTS $78 BILLION PER YEAR
Jun 02, 2008; ... Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 BONN, Germany, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The ongoing loss of biodiversity across the globe is costing about $78 billion in ecological damage to the planet's land areas every year, according to a new study....
IRELAND: MORE THAN 100 NATIONS ENDORSE BAN ON CLUSTER BOMBS
Jun 02, 2008; ... David Cronin Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-02-2008 DUBLIN, Ireland, May 30, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- More than 100 governments formally agreed on Friday to outlaw the use of cluster bombs, despite intense opposition from the U.S., the world's top user of the weapon. ...
ITALY: FARMERS, NGOS HOLD PROTEST SUMMIT ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Jun 03, 2008; ... Sabina Zaccaro Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 ROME, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- High global food prices and their impact on poor countries are set to dominate the three-day U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization summit of world leaders that opened Tuesday in ...
MIDEAST: FAILURE OF TALKS COULD LEAD TO ESCALATION IN GAZA
Jun 03, 2008; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 CAIRO, Egypt, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A cessation of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions remains elusive as ever, despite the recent round of ...
PAKISTAN: POLICEMAN SAYS TALIBAN IS BEHIND SPATE OF KIDNAPPINGS
Jun 03, 2008; ... Ashfaq Yusufzai Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A flurry of kidnappings in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and areas adjoining Afghanistan are being blamed on Taliban militia."A 14-year-old boy, ...
KENYA: SLUM DWELLERS STRUGGLE TO ACCESS CLEAN WATER
Jun 03, 2008; ... Rosalia Omungo Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The road leading to the informal settlement of Korogocho is narrow and winding. Here, in Nairobi's third largest slum, up to 150,000 people are crammed into an area of ...
GAZA: DENIAL OF VISAS TO FULBRIGHT RECIPIENTS STOKES ILL WILL
Jun 03, 2008; ... Khody Akhavi Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 WASHINGTON, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Israel and the U.S. announced Friday that they plan to revisit a policy that prevents Palestinians from leaving the Gaza Strip to pursue their educational goals, one day after ...
RIGHTS: ACTIVISTS SEEK TRANSPARENCY IN INTER-AMERICAN COURT
Jun 03, 2008; ... Constanza Vieira Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 MEDELLIN, Colombia, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Although it is proceeding "at a very slow pace," the current trend in the Americas is toward a "strengthening of human rights," said Mara Victoria Fallon, a ...
AFRICA: CONTROVERSY DOGS CREATION OF U.S. MILITARY COMMAND
Jun 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Lawrence Delevingne Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 NEW YORK, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The United States Africa Command -- Washington's latest military oversight structure for the African continent -- is expected to be fully operational in ...
U.S.: VETERANS GATHER IN SEATTLE TO TELL OF ATROCITIES IN IRAQ
Jun 03, 2008; ... Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 SEATTLE, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Dozens of veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq converged in Seattle over the weekend to share stories of the atrocities being committed daily in Iraq.The gathering was a ...
U.S.: GATES, RICE PRIVATELY OPPOSED BUSH'S LINE ON IRANIAN ARMS
Jun 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Gareth Porter* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 WASHINGTON, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The George W. Bush administration has for months publicly embraced the idea that the Iranian government is smuggling armor-piercing warheads to Iraqi Shiite ...
BRAZIL: LANDOWNERS AND MILITARY FIGHT INDIGENOUS LAND POLICY
Jun 03, 2008; ... Mario Osava Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A political-military alliance opposed to the Brazilian government's indigenous and environmental policies is taking shape, catalyzed by the controversy over the ...
INDIA: RAJASTHANI WOMEN USE PUBLIC HEARINGS TO DEMAND JUSTICE
Jun 03, 2008; ... Nitin Jugran Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 SAWAI MADHOPUR, India, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Public hearings organized by the Rajasthan State Women's Commission have now been held in 30 districts of the Indian state, offering support to hundreds of women in ...
EGYPT: RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DECRY 2-YEAR EXTENSION OF MARTIAL LAW
Jun 03, 2008; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 CAIRO, Egypt, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A parliamentary majority approved a two-year extension of Egypt's longstanding emergency law last week, amid harsh criticism from opposition figures ...
UKRAINE: STATE SEEKS SELF-SUFFICIENCY THROUGH NUCLEAR POWER
Jun 03, 2008; ... Zoltn Dujisin Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Ukraine is embarking on a costly and inefficient path of nuclear development, hoping to reduce its energy dependence on Russia.Criticisms are mounting over ...
MOROCCO: DISCOVERY OF GRAVES REVIVES FIGHT AGAINST EXECUTIONS
Jun 03, 2008; ... Abderrahim El Ouali Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 CASABLANCA, Morocco, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The recent discovery of two mass graves and the anticipation of a disclosure of five other places where victims of other alleged extrajudicial killings lie has ...
TRADE: FARM GROUP SAYS NIGERIA THREATENED GHANA WITH TARIFFS
Jun 03, 2008; ... Aileen Kwa* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 GENEVA, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- West African states are attempting to salvage regional relations in a renewed attempt to collectively negotiate an economic partnership agreement with the European Union....
WEST AFRICA-TRADE: NIGERIA TAKES STEPS TO PROTECT ITS INDUSTRIES
Jun 03, 2008; ... Aileen Kwa* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 GENEVA, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Nigeria took a strong stance on the course of its own economic development recently by rejecting an economic partnership agreement with the European Union.The country has also ...
ISRAEL: OLMERT'S IMPENDING DEMISE MAY DAMAGE PEACE PROCESS
Jun 03, 2008; ... Analysis by Peter Hirschberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-03-2008 JERUSALEM, Jun. 1, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a seasoned, street-smart political brawler, but even he is having a hard time finding a way out of his current ...
MIDEAST: TIES WITH U.S. MAY BE HURTING CAIRO'S MEDIATING POWER
Jun 04, 2008; ... Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 CAIRO, Egypt, Jun. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Some local analysts have charged that Egyptian diplomacy has been hamstrung by the ruling regime's closeness to Washington, offering as evidence ...
NORWAY: NATION EARNED $425 MILLION THROUGH ARMS SALES IN 2007
Jun 04, 2008; ... Tarjei Kidd Olsen Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 OSLO, Norway, Jun. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Norway may have the reputation of being a peace builder, but it is nevertheless the world's seventh largest exporter of weapons and ammunition, according to recent ...
Q&A-BULGARIA: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS FORM GREEN PARTY
Jun 04, 2008; ... Claudia Ciobanu Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 Sofia, Bulgaria, Jun. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Members of various environmental NGOs in Bulgaria have banded together to form a green political party called Zelenite.Among the founders are activists who have ...
TRADE: FOOD CRISIS LEADS NATIONS TO LEASE FARMLAND OVERSEAS
Jun 04, 2008; ... Antoaneta Bezlova Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 BEIJING, Jun. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order, a noted environmentalist said Tuesday: Individual countries are scrambling to secure ...
U.N.: SELF-INTERESTED JOCKEYING IMPEDES BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT
Jun 04, 2008; ... Analysis by Stephen Leahy Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 BONN, Germany, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Self-interest and petty politicking has largely paralyzed efforts to solve the problem of widespread extinctions, with few concrete achievements coming out of ...
INDIA: CHILD REPORTERS DRAW ATTENTION TO THEIR VILLAGES' NEEDS
Jun 04, 2008; ... Nitin Jugran Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 TONK, India, Jun. 4, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Children in some villages of the Indian state of Rajasthan have assumed the role of the media, tackling the social and development issues that concern their well-being....
INDIA: ACTIVISTS PLAN 10-DAY FAST OVER JAILING OF JUNGLE DOCTOR
Jun 04, 2008; ... Keya Acharya Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 BANGALORE, India, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A countrywide caucus of Indian activists is set to begin a 10-day fast starting June 16 to protest India's "black laws" and demand the freeing of a "jungle doctor" and ...
BRAZIL: CLIMATE CHANGE MAY WEAKEN RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Jun 04, 2008; ... Mario Osava Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- To Brazil's credit, 45 percent of its energy comes from renewable sources, three times as much as in industrialized countries.But for that very same reason, the ...
COLOMBIA: U.S. PRAISES URIBE, REAFFIRMS BACKING FOR DRUG WAR
Jun 04, 2008; ... Michael Flynn Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 MEDELLIN, Colombia, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Speaking in the Colombian city of Medellin, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte told reporters on Monday that Colombia is "an outstanding example" of what ...
U.S.: IRAQ VETERANS LEAD ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN SEATTLE
Jun 04, 2008; ... Dahr Jamail Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 SEATTLE, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- In a clear change of strategy aimed at energizing public anti-war sentiment, Iraq veterans led a demonstration of hundreds through downtown Seattle last Saturday, following ...
NICARAGUA: ECONOMIC WOES CAUSE ORTEGA'S RATINGS TO PLUMMET
Jun 04, 2008; ... Jos Adn Silva Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Economic problems and persistent poverty have plunged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's approval ratings to a new low, according to analysts.Ortega's ...
Q&A: U.N. SHOULD RECOGNIZE ASIA AS A GLOBAL POWER, AUTHOR SAYS
Jun 04, 2008; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The United Nations and its sister institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, may begin to lose their credibility if they continue to ignore ...
EU: LISBON TREATY MAY DRAW IRELAND DEEPER INTO ARMS TRADE
Jun 04, 2008; ... David Cronin Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 DUBLIN, Ireland, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- It is ironic that Ireland may be deepening its involvement in the arms trade, even as it basks in the praise it received last week for brokering a ban on cluster bombs ...
WORLD BANK: SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS WATER SCARCITY, POLLUTION
Jun 04, 2008; ... Tarjei Kidd Olsen Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 OSLO, Norway, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Millions of people are threatened by poor, unreliable, or nonexistent water resources, and climate change could make things worse.A World Bank conference on water ...
Q&A: AUTHOR CALLS FOR RADICAL ALLIANCE TO SAVE ENVIRONMENT
Jun 04, 2008; ... Sabina Zaccaro Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 FLORENCE, Italy, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- A global alliance of human rights activists, environmentalists and ethically run small enterprises is needed to save the planet from self-destruction, according to ...
OP-ED: AIDS EDUCATION MUST BE LESS PRESCRIPTIVE, MORE RESPONSIVE
Jun 04, 2008; ... Analysis by David Dickinson* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- I live in a country where it has become normal to bury men and women in their thirties. At least it is so at township funerals.At the ...
VIETNAM: BIRD FLU VACCINE FOR HUMANS MAY BE AVAILABLE BY 2009
Jun 04, 2008; ... Tran Dinh Thanh Lam -- Newsmekong* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Jun. 3, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Vietnamese researchers have announced significant progress in their effort to develop a prototype vaccine for the H5N1 avian influenza....
BOLIVIA: TWO NORTHERN PROVINCES TAKE STEPS TOWARD AUTONOMY
Jun 04, 2008; ... Franz Chvez Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Bolivia's leftist government has responded cautiously to the approval of two new regional autonomy statutes, this time in the northern provinces of Beni and Pando....
U.S.: MCCAIN TOUTS HARD-LINE APPROACH TO IRAN AT AIPAC SUMMIT
Jun 04, 2008; ... Jim Lobe* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-04-2008 WASHINGTON, Jun. 2, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- In a major address on Middle East policy Monday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, pledged to maintain the Bush administration's hard line ...
ISRAEL: PRIME MINISTER SAYS ATTACK ON GAZA MAY BE IMMINENT
Jun 09, 2008; ... Analysis by Peter Hirschberg Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 JERUSALEM, Jun. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The likelihood of a large-scale Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip has crept closer, with rockets continuing to land in southern Israel. In addition ...
BURMA: JUNTA JAILS VOLUNTEER RESCUE WORKER, SEIZING HIS PHOTOS
Jun 09, 2008; ... Marwaan Macan-Markar Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun. 9, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The detention of a prominent comedian in Burma has revealed an ominous turn of events in the military-ruled country: It has seemingly become a crime for ...
U.S.: MCCAIN'S JUDICIAL PLANS APPEAR TO BE IN LOCKSTEP WITH BUSH'S
Jun 09, 2008; ... Analysis by Bill Berkowitz* Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 OAKLAND, Calif., Jun. 8, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Few voters cast their ballots based on concerns about judges, but perhaps they should: The judicial appointments of whoever wins the U.S. presidency ...
BOLIVIA/PERU: SEWAGE AND MINING WASTE POLLUTE LAKE TITICACA
Jun 09, 2008; ... Bernarda Claure /Tierramrica * Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 BAH A DE COHANA, Bolivia, Jun. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Nobody doubts that Lake Titicaca, a watershed shared by Bolivia and Peru, is polluted, but there are still no detailed studies of the state of ...
SINGAPORE: STATE SUES BLOGGER FOR CRITICIZING HIGH COURT JUDGE
Jun 09, 2008; ... Lin Quan Zhong -- Asia Media Forum Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 SINGAPORE, Jun. 7, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Ongoing legal action against a foreign blogger who criticized Singapore's justice system has raised fears that the city-state's tight controls on speech ...
Q&A: WTO TALKS STALL DUE TO TENSIONS OVER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
Jun 09, 2008; ... Gustavo Capdevila Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 GENEVA, Jun. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Tension in the World Trade Organization's negotiations on industrial goods has become so acute that the diplomat leading the talks on cutting tariffs has decided to suspend ...
U.N.: WORLD LEADERS PLEDGE TO RESOLVE FOOD CRISIS COLLECTIVELY
Jun 09, 2008; ... Thalif Deen Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jun. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The international community pledged to alleviate hunger and reduce malnutrition at United Nations food summits in 1996 and 2002, but most of its promises were never ...
ENERGY: INDONESIA LEAVES OPEC
Jun 09, 2008; ... Humberto Mrquez Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 CARACAS, Venezuela, Jun. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Indonesia pulled out of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries almost at the same time as U.S. automobile giant General Motors decided to build fewer ...
U.S.: REPUBLICAN SENATORS BLOCK PASSAGE OF CLIMATE BILL
Jun 09, 2008; ... Jim Lobe Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 WASHINGTON, Jun. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Republicans effectively killed major bipartisan legislation aimed at cutting greenhouse emissions Friday in the U.S. Senate, but environmental groups have expressed hope that the ...
CANADA: POLITICAL SQUABBLE ERUPTS OVER DRUG INJECTION SITE
Jun 09, 2008; ... Am Johal Inter Press Service English News Wire 06-09-2008 VANCOUVER, Canada, Jun. 6, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Canadian government has decided to appeal a British Columbia Supreme Court decision allowing North America's first supervised injection site to remain open without a ...