News headlines in 2013, page 48

GENEVA, Oct 01 (IPS) - A fight taking place in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations towards the Bali Ministerial Conference shows how the rules on agriculture allow developed countries to continue to shell out huge subsidies while penalising farmers in developing countries.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 01 (IPS) - Amidst the incomprehensible suffering that followed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, international aid agencies rushed to provide services to the displaced and injured.

KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa, Oct 01 (IPS) - In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality's sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.

MANILA, Oct 01 (IPS) - Under the reformist leadership of President Benigno Aquino III who has placed "good governance" initiatives at the heart of his administration's agenda, the Philippines has enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic revival and political stability. 

CAIRO, Oct 01 (IPS) - Egyptian workers who mobilised during the 2011 uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak have used the past two and a half years to organise into unions, press for labour reforms, and strike for better wages and working conditions.

WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (IPS) - As lawmakers here prepare to take up legislation that would green-light a U.S.-Mexico agreement on oil-and-gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, development and rights groups are urging them to reject a proposal that would exempt involved companies from new disclosure requirements.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 30 (IPS) - The citizen journalists of Midia Ninja, who have covered the protests that broke out across Brazil in June right in the thick of things, are part of a new kind of reporting: one that is proud to be biased.

NEW YORK, Sep 30 (IPS) - One of the fastest-growing Asian immigrant groups in the United States, Filipinos are perceived as the most likely to assimilate with ease.  That is, of course, if you're looking from the outside in.

SYDNEY, Sep 30 (IPS) - Reports of fraudulent medicines in the south-west Pacific island states of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea have drawn attention to the need for more public awareness of the lethal trade and its tragic consequences.