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BRAZIL: Thirst for Energy Drives Construction of More Dams in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
Electricity consumption in Brazil will rise by 5.9 percent a year until 2019, and hydroelectric plants will continue to be the main source of power because they generate it at a lower cost, the government announced.
RWANDA: Women Win by Formalising Businesses
- Inter Press Service
The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda - like elsewhere in Africa - are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues.
MALAYSIA: Planned Subsidy Cut Draws Fire, Seen to Hurt the Poor
- Inter Press Service
The government’s proposal to remove and rationalise subsidies on essential goods and services continues to provoke a storm of criticism from ordinary Malaysians.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Restoring Trust After 'Horrible' Copenhagen Conference
- Inter Press Service
Six months after failing to reach a binding agreement on climate change, negotiators are meeting in Bonn to try to get the process back on track. But deep disagreement over measuring developing countries' emissions and finding funds for adaptation to climate change remain unresolved.
AUSTRALIA: Homeless Young Women Defying Stereotype
- Inter Press Service
Geraldine Martin, Sara Stilianos, both 20, and Erin Murphy, 24, are like many young Australian women: bright, articulate, well presented, and have high hopes for their futures. Yet all three are homeless.
FOOD: Something's Rotten in Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of tonnes of basic foods rotted in the last year in shipping containers belonging to the Venezuelan government. Fully two-thirds of the food consumed by Venezuela's 27 million inhabitants is imported.
Argentine Hake On the Brink of Collapse
- Inter Press Service
The Argentine hake fisheries of the southern Atlantic Ocean, among the world's leaders in the white fish market, are on the verge of collapse due in part to the indifference of the Argentine people, who are apparently more interested in beef, a staple of their diet.
SENEGAL: Law Opens Door to Political Office to Senegalese Women
- Inter Press Service
A law on gender parity in electoral lists, approved by a large majority in Senegal's National Assembly, has been welcomed by women from diverse walks of life.
INDIA: 25 Years On, Bhopal Tragedy Victims Still Crying for Justice
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-five years after an industrial gas leak from the factory of a U.S. multinational firm in this ancient India city killed thousands and impaired nearly half a million, victims are still crying for justice.
CAMBODIA: Aid Donors Urged to Demand Faster Reforms from Gov’t
- Inter Press Service
P. Yuen Mach sat on the floor of her wooden home, her hands nervously twisting a stalk of lemongrass into fibrous strands.
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