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Sustainable Aquaculture Picks Up Steam
- Inter Press Service
As farmed fish consumption catches up on wild, a search for sustainable aquaculture picks up steam.
SUDAN: Fear Campaign Reported Ahead of Referendum
- Inter Press Service
With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan’s security services in 'carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation' against opponents of the government.
HEALTH: Intellectual Property Rights Remain A Barrier to Drugs
- Inter Press Service
Intellectual property (IP) rights are a key reason for high medicine prices, rendering such medicines unaffordable and therefore out of reach for poor people. While mechanisms exist to circumvent IP, poor countries have been browbeaten into adopting stringent IP laws.
MEDIA-PHILIPPINES: Citizen Journalism Gets Public Involved
- Inter Press Service
Television news images of a phony policeman on a motorcycle escorting a sedan travelling against the flow of traffic — submitted by a passing motorist — is a sign of the changing face of journalism and public involvement in the Philippines.
CAMBODIA: Informal Sex Trade Threatens to Undercut Gains in HIV
- Inter Press Service
On a muggy evening, a handful of men in suits were quickly getting drunk in a beer garden here in the Cambodian capital. One man rested his hand on the thigh of a slender woman sitting uncomfortably in a short skirt.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Burma’s Nuke Ambitions to Come under Scrutiny
- Inter Press Service
When South-east Asian foreign ministers gather in Hanoi this week for a series of annual security meetings, the region’s most troublesome member, military- ruled Burma, is due to come under scrutiny over reports of its nuclear ambitions.
HEALTH: East African Laws Confuse Fake and Generic Drugs - WHO
- Inter Press Service
The World Health Organisation (WHO) agrees that the anti-counterfeit legislation that has been adopted or that is under consideration in East Africa threatens the accessibility of affordable generic medicines.
INDIA: Amid Renewed Violence, Kashmir Journalists Become the News
- Inter Press Service
Abdul Rehman stopped in his tracks when he did not see his usual newspapers strewn out on his lawn one morning this month. But little did he know that he would not see newspapers, whether out on the newsstands or delivered to subscribers like him, for three more days.
SRI LANKA: New Tremors, Old Nightmares
- Inter Press Service
Janoshini Maurasini shakes like a leaf each time the sea belches a thunderous roar. And the 29-year-old mother of two has good reason to be nervous: Maurasini only narrowly escaped with her life in the Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, which killed over 35,000 of her fellow Sri Lankans within minutes.
China: Outsmarting the West in African Markets
- Inter Press Service
China's interest in Africa is frequently portrayed simply as that of a rising economic power seeking natural resources. Deborah Brautigam argues that this portrayal misses the full complexity of business relations between China and the continent.
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