News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 80

BRIDGETOWN, Nov 11 (IPS) - Both parliamentary opposition parties and members of the public are calling on the Barbadian government to hold a referendum on the issue of casino gambling.

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Friday approved 535 million dollars in new loans to Vietnam to support its economic reform programme over the next three years.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 11 (IPS) - After years of insisting that the Khmer Rouge be included in any effort to rebuild war-ravaged Cambodia, Western countries led by Australia are finally rallying to help Phnom Penh eradicate the dreaded guerrilla group.

JAKARTA, Nov 11 (IPS) - Indonesia has tried to use the flood of foreign dignitaries attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings to boost its international standing, but the world's fourth most populous nation is finding itself the focus of much unwanted attention as well.

JAKARTA, Nov 11 (IPS) - Indonesia has tried to use the flood of foreign dignitaries attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings to boost its international standing, but the world's fourth most populous nation is finding itself the focus of much unwanted attention as well.

DHAKA, Nov 11 (IPS) - BANGLADESH HURTLED TOWARDS POLITICAL CHAOS AS THREE KEY OPPOSITION PARTIES CHALKED OUT AN ELABORATE AGITATIONAL PLAN TO FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN AND AGREE TO PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS UNDER A NEUTRAL CARETAKER REGIME.

JAKARTA, Nov 11 (IPS) - Freer trade remains the battlecry of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), but the mechanics of how and when remain tough questions that even their ministers on Friday found difficult to grapple with.

MOSCOW, Nov 11 (IPS) - Russia's 1995 draft budget which was last month presented to parliament by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is likely to be rewritten by a new team of ministers who have this week taken charge of economic management.

PRAGUE, Nov 11 (IPS) - The U.S. company Westinghouse reinforced its position in Eastern Europe's post-communist markets with a contract to overhaul Soviet-built nuclear reactors in Bulgaria.

BONN, Nov 11 (IPS) - A book released on Friday which protests the possibility of the Evangelical Church permitting homosexuals and lesbians to serve as pastors rekindled a heated controversy among progressive and conservative sectors of the church.