News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2076
TRADE: China Opens New Markets for Asian Economies
- Inter Press Service
In response to growing labour costs, China is increasingly turning to its neighbours to supply what it once produced locally - raw materials and intermediate goods, such as machine components and parts - to retain its international reputation as the ‘factory to the world’.
Q&A: Portugal's Development Aid Untouched by Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Despite the global economic crisis that has hit Europe especially hard, Portugal's official development aid to its former colonies will not decline this year, although 'unfortunately no increase is expected either.'
HEALTH: The Silent Killer that Continues to Claim Children’s Lives
- Inter Press Service
Medical experts have warned that malaria and HIV have monopolised interventions geared towards curbing child mortality in Kenya, thus ignoring the equally deadly killer, diarrhoea. This disease has silently claimed the lives of hundreds of children every year.
AGRICULTURE: CASSAVA COMBATING RURAL HUNGER
- Inter Press Service
Women Fight Assault Over Internet
- Inter Press Service
Millions use Facebook to keep in touch with their friends, post photos of reunions and parties and share links to interesting articles and videos. But for 24-year old Maria (not her real name), the popular social networking site became a source of public shame when a former boyfriend posted nude photos and videos of her in an account he had created under her name.
SRI LANKA: Economy Going Nuts
- Inter Press Service
At a marketplace near Colombo, consumers scramble for coconuts being sold from a state-owned truck. Sri Lanka is the world’s fourth largest coconut producer and a major exporter; but a crop shortfall and a drought have forced the country to import coconuts.
NICARAGUA: Lobster Divers in Deep Trouble
- Inter Press Service
Edgard Walters, who belongs to the Association of Disabled and Active Divers of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, has been in a wheelchair since 2003, when he made his last dive for lobster in the waters of the Caribbean.
The Peace Dividend in South Sudan
- Inter Press Service
This is the story of Francis Odong, a southern Sudanese man from Eastern Equitoria state.
CHILE: Clouds on the Horizon in Fishing Industry
- Inter Press Service
Unemployment in Chile's fishing industry will rise this year, experts and the association of small-scale fishers warn, due to the reduction in catch quotas adopted in response to overfishing and plunging stocks of key species, particularly jack mackerel.
Tribe Warns of War over Sudan Vote
- Inter Press Service
A tribal leader in Sudan's flashpoint region of Abyei has given a war warning, six days before south Sudan votes on whether to split from the north.
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