News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2063
ARGENTINA: Guaraní Effort to Strengthen Culture Through Tourism
- Inter Press Service
Since recovering part of their territory in 2005, an indigenous Guaraní community in the northeastern Argentine province of Misiones is working to maintain and expand a cultural tourism initiative.
Bird, Fish Kills Quite Common - and That's the Problem
- Inter Press Service
The New Year brought a spate of incidents across the United States and around the world in which large numbers of birds appeared to have fallen out of the sky, and thousands of fish were found floating dead in rivers.
DEVELOPMENT: Now for ‘Millennium Consumption Goals’
- Inter Press Service
A Sri Lankan scientist is calling for the drafting of 'Millennium Consumption Goals' to force rich countries to curb their climate-damaging consumption habits, in the same way the poor have Millennium Development Goals to get them out of poverty.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Driving Straight Into Catastrophe
- Inter Press Service
Despite repeated warnings by environmental and climate experts that reduction of fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is fundamental to forestalling global warming, disaster appears imminent. According to the latest statistics, unprecedented climate change has Earth hurtling down a path of catastrophic proportions.
Dipping Dollar Hits Burmese Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Tracking gun battles along the Thai-Burma border and preparing for another wave of refugees are not the only things that concern British humanitarian Sally Thompson.
Dispirited Arabs Burning for Change
- Inter Press Service
Upset over a policy that prevented him from buying subsidised food, Egyptian restaurant owner Abdou Abdel Moneim travelled to Cairo to find someone in parliament to help. When security officers prevented him from submitting his complaint to MPs entering parliament, the 49-year-old man doused himself in fuel and cursed the Egyptian regime as he disappeared into a ball of fire.
Mexico Tempted to Shift From Tortillas to Ethanol
- Inter Press Service
Farmers' protests and the rise in corn tortilla prices in late December put temporary brakes on the Mexican Senate, which was preparing to lift the national ban on utilising maize to make fuel alcohol, or ethanol.
BRAZIL: 'Don Quixote' of River Transport Starting to Win Battles
- Inter Press Service
It is mere ignorance that stands in the way of Brazil having a broad network of navigable waterways and leads to the wasted potential of the country's great rivers, laments José Alex de Oliva, superintendent of inland navigation at Brazil's national waterways transport regulator (ANTAQ).
Easter Islanders Seek U.N. Intervention in Dispute with Chile
- Inter Press Service
'We are a peaceful people. We don't like war. We don't want police and military on our land,' said Erity Teave, an indigenous activist from the Chilean-administered Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.
MEXICO: Native Craftswomen Harness Their Skills
- Inter Press Service
It took María de los Ángeles Carrillo, a native craftswoman from Mexico, eight months to weave a decorative junco reed basket, for which she won an 8,000 dollar prize from the Mexican government.
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