News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1097

  1. Zimbabwe's Rocky Economic Start to 2014

    - Inter Press Service

    HARARE, Jan 14 (IPS) - Evelyn Mhasi, a qualified nurse, has not worked in her profession for the last seven years. Hiring in several Zimbabwean government sectors, including nursing, remains frozen despite colleges churning out skilled professionals each year.

  2. Chinese Dominance in Kenyan Digital Migration Raises Alarm

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Jan 14 (IPS) - Controversy and confusion have marked Kenya’s transition from analogue to digital television in keeping with the 2015 International Telecommunication Union deadline when all analogue signal transmission will cease. 

  3. Development Follows Devastation from Brazilian Dam

    - Inter Press Service

    PETROLANDIA, Brazil, Jan 13 (IPS) - Valdenor de Melo has been waiting for 27 years for the land and cash compensation he is due because his old farm was left underwater when the Itaparica hydroelectric dam was built on the São Francisco river in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast.

  4. Jordan Valley Produces Conflicting Dates

    - Inter Press Service

    JORDAN VALLEY, Israeli-occupied West Bank, Jan 13 (IPS) - Israeli settler Gadi Blumenfeld distributes machetes to 15 Palestinian labourers and instructs them to cut the thorns off of his dates’ fronds. “I might be stabbed in the back,” he says, “but thanks to farming, we keep the area safe from terrorists.”

  5. Next Step in Uruguay: Competitive, Quality Marijuana

    - Inter Press Service

    MONTEVIDEO, Jan 12 (IPS) - Uruguay, about to become the first country in the world where the state will fully regulate production, sale and distribution of marijuana, will spend the next few months selecting a good quality strain of the crop that can be sold at a price similar to current illegal prices.

  6. Wildlife Poaching Thought to Bankroll International Terrorism

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (IPS) - Top diplomats and retired U.S. military officials are urging Western and African governments to step up the global fight against illegal wildlife poaching.

  7. Natural Disasters Add to Myanmar’s Troubles

    - Inter Press Service

    YANGON, Jan 11 (IPS) - As Myanmar nurses a fragile democracy after long years of military rule, a new danger has reared its head. Climate change, say experts, has the potential to spur migration and exacerbate conflict in the country.

  8. Major Parts of World Ignored by U.S. TV News in 2013

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (IPS) - If people outside the United States are looking for answers why Americans often seem so clueless about the world outside their borders, they could start with what the three major U.S. television networks offered their viewers in the way of news during 2013.

  9. Blackouts in Argentina Highlight Failings of Privatisation

    - Inter Press Service

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    BUENOS AIRES, Jan 10 (IPS) - Record temperatures at the start of the southern hemisphere summer in Argentina have been accompanied by highs on the thermometer of social discontent, as consumption peaks left thousands without electricity and threw into sharp focus the failings of the privatisation of the power industry in the 1990s.

  10. Four Years Later, USAID Funds in Haiti Still Unaccounted For

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - As the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti approaches on Jan. 12, development analysts are decrying an ongoing lack of transparency in U.S. foreign aid to the country, even as those assistance streams are drying up.

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