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CHINA: Men Becoming More Suicide-Prone
- Inter Press Service
While new research indicates that China’s overall suicide rate has been in decline for the last two decades, some segments of the population — including urban males and the elderly — are increasingly likely to take their own lives, the result of breakneck social change in the world’s most populous country.
Egypt Takes a Step Back From IMF Ways
- Inter Press Service
Egypt could soon be looking for a new economic model — one that will be different from the traditional system that has been promoted for years by international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the reign of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
MEXICO: China Is Hiring; Only Professionals Need Apply
- Inter Press Service
Mexican pilot Armando Arauz is preparing the thick pile of documents and exams he needs to work for an airline in China.
U.S. House Pushes Through Deep Aid Cuts
- Inter Press Service
With a 2015 deadline fast approaching to meet a collective global promise to tackle poverty and improve education, health and environmental sustainability around the world, development and humanitarian advocates are up in arms over conservative lawmakers' proposals to slash and burn entire chunks of the United States' foreign aid budget.
When Asia Put Some Dictators Behind
- Inter Press Service
As Egypt takes tentative steps to replace ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade authoritarian rule with a democratic culture, its political planners may want to look halfway across the world to the most populous Muslim country for lessons on how to prevent a return to strongman rule.
INDIA: Red Link With Nepal Fades
- Inter Press Service
With the powerful Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) relinquishing control of its fighting arm, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Indian government, faced with its own Maoist insurgency, can breathe more easily.
EGYPT: Pharaoh Fixes his Fortune
- Inter Press Service
As Egypt’s popular uprising gained momentum and Hosni Mubarak’s downfall looked increasingly inevitable, he used his final days in office to secure his vast wealth, say analysts.
Mideast Crackdown Puts U.S. Democracy Line to the Test
- Inter Press Service
As popular protests escalated in some restive Arab countries Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama criticised the regime- sanctioned blood- letting of innocent demonstrators mobilising against government corruption and repression.
Arab Storm Rocks Libya
- Inter Press Service
The movement for change sweeping across the Middle East has now rocked Libya. Thousands of people have taken to the streets across many cities to demand an end to the 41-year autocratic rule of maverick leader Muammar Al- Gaddafi.
AFRICA: Billions Lost to State Coffers Due to Tax Leniency
- Inter Press Service
Bad governance and the persistence of the tax avoidance industry allow billions of dollars of profit to be siphoned out of Africa, untaxed, every year.
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