News headlines for “Trade, Economy, & Related Issues”, page 2084
THAILAND: Online Censorship Triggers Fear among Bloggers
- Inter Press Service
When he is not designing another house for this city’s sprawling urbanscape, a Thai architect in his mid-forties worries about another run-in with this kingdom’s cyber police.
U.S.: Prisoners Coordinate Statewide Strike via Cellphones
- Inter Press Service
In what some are calling the largest prison strike in U.S. history, inmates in the state of Georgia coordinated a strike across multiple prison facilities using pre-paid cell phones.
CUBA: Socialism Needs More Taxes, Fewer Subsidies
- Inter Press Service
Cubans are delving deeper into economic change, which means new taxes and an end to the state subsidies that for decades were a symbol of the equality so highly extolled under the Cuban Revolution.
WATER: Miracle Man Eases Village’s Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
Hermes Chimombo, a welder in his 50s, is a revered man in the impoverished Naotcha Township. Armed with rudimentary tools and a passion to ease people’s suffering, he has tapped a spring in the mountain above the slum to provide water for its 25,000 residents.
INDIA: Clashes Continue Between Elephant Vs Humans
- Inter Press Service
Returning home from work recently, farmer Baidhar Singh was aghast to find his thatched hut in Balasore district, Orissa trampled to the ground. Just a few hundred metres away stood the culprits, huge and grey against the darkening sky: a herd of 65 wild elephants.
AGRICULTURE: Researchers say traditional vegetables can improve food security
- Inter Press Service
According to Vision 2030, which is a government strategic plan on how to boost growth and development in Kenya, there are an estimated 5 million out of an estimated 8 million households who depend directly on agriculture, despite the fact that agriculture continues to be one of the most under-budgeted Ministries. ale.
India-EU Deal Threatens Mom-and-Pop Retail
- Inter Press Service
Retail giants pushing the European Union-India free trade deal promise consumers a 'new and dynamic retail experience' but ignore the fate of India’s 'mom-and-pop' stores and some 40 million people they employ.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Entrepreneurs, Not Diplomats, Are 'Ambassadors' to China
- Inter Press Service
With the exception of Costa Rica, Central America does not have diplomatic relations with China, but business executives are taking the place of ambassadors and promoting closer ties with the Asian giant, hoping to cash in on its rapid economic growth.
LATIN AMERICA: Quality Jobs Urgently Needed for Rising Generation
- Inter Press Service
Programmes to reduce the unemployment rate among young people in Latin America and the Caribbean should be a priority for countries in the region, said experts, trade unionists and government representatives meeting in the Chilean capital.
Dire Development Issues Converge in the Drylands
- Inter Press Service
Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is crucial, for it is human behaviour that has led to the proliferation of hyper- arid, uncultivable drylands over the past few decades.
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