Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1472
SIERRA LEONE: Digging Deep for Iron Ore
- Inter Press Service
Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community here plan to take their chief to court next week over a controversial 50-year land lease to a mining company.
The Dragon Goes Shopping in South America
- Inter Press Service
The small restaurants and shops selling plastic sandals, tacky umbrellas, kitchen wares and paper lanterns in Buenos Aires's Chinatown do not give the impression of impending economic dominance.
JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
R&D Weathers the Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Research and development, unlike other branches of productive activity, is resisting the ravages of one of the worst financial and economic crises to affect the world in the last 80 years.
ECONOMY-CUBA: Latest Reform: Bank Loans
- Inter Press Service
Rules allowing Cubans to buy and sell cars and homes, and now, to take out loans, are two of the latest steps taken to 'modernise' the economy.
SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Bloc — More Politics, Better Integration
- Inter Press Service
The leaders of South America's Mercosur trade bloc decided to set up a committee to facilitate the incorporation of new members, adopt a mechanism to defend democracy in case of a coup, and ban vessels from the Malvinas/Falkland Islands from docking in member countries' ports.
Conflict Minerals Law Hold-up Threatens Lives in DR Congo
- Inter Press Service
Electronics are at the top of many holiday gift lists in the U.S. this season, but some of those products could be made using minerals from areas of the world where conflicts have led to widespread human rights abuses.
Green Tech Drives Search for Rare Earths in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
Argentina could meet part of the rising world demand for 'rare earth' metals, required for a variety of green technologies, advanced electronic devices and medical diagnostic equipment. The challenge lies in mining them in a sustainable fashion.
Moving Towards a Food-Secure Ghana
- Inter Press Service
In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them by the village chief.
PAKISTAN: In Arms Against Saints
- Inter Press Service
The Taliban have destroyed schools, bombed music shops and carried out gruesome executions in Pakistan’s territories bordering Afghanistan. But what they may never be forgiven for is the destruction of ancient shrines where revered Sufi mystics are interred.
Powered by
