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ASIA: English-Language Media a Double-Edged Sword?
- Inter Press Service
The English language, as a medium for reporting in the region, is both a boon and a bane for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of getting ‘heard’ or generally being ignored by the global community.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Plan For Nuclear Waste Dump Faces Backlash
- Inter Press Service
Aboriginal landowners in Australia’s far north are battling government plans to construct this country’s long-term nuclear waste storage facility on their land.
AFGHANISTAN: War-Zone Medical Aid Doubly Endangered
- Inter Press Service
The case of the three Italians arrested this month on suspicion of trying to assassinate a southern Afghan governor concluded with a happy ending of sorts and a sure fire certainty - an uncompromising attitude that makes war-zone medical aid doubly dangerous.
TRADE: SACU Reaches 100th Year Despite Recent Divisions
- Inter Press Service
Leaders rallied behind the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) at its 100th birthday bash on Apr 22, adamant that it remains the region’s best shot at economic sovereignty. Details on how to accomplish this, however, remain sketchy.
SRI LANKA: Jaffna Tamils Decry Development Plan of Gov’t
- Inter Press Service
Two cyclists from the minority Tamil community are shooed away by government soldiers as they approach this northern Sri Lankan city’s only Buddhist temple while President Mahinda Rajapaksa is paying a visit.
POLITICS: Thai Premier Turns to Military for Protest Crackdown
- Inter Press Service
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva appears set to gamble his reputation as an urbane cosmopolitan symbol of modern Thailand after shutting the door to a reconciliation offer by anti-government protesters who have occupied the upmarket shopping heartland of Bangkok since Apr. 3.
POLITICS: Not Quite Cricket: India’s Most Popular Sport on Trial
- Inter Press Service
Allegations that India’s junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor had swung outsize ‘sweat equity’ for a female friend in a newly floated professional cricket league franchise may have cost him his job, but it may also expose the multi- million dollar India Premium League (IPL) as a massive money-laundering enterprise.
KENYA: Farming Butterflies Puts Food on the Table
- Inter Press Service
For 10 years, Roselyne Shikami, sold boiled eggs at the bus station just outside the densely wooded Kakamega Forest in western Kenya, near the border with Uganda. Now she is selling butterflies.
SOUTH AFRICA: Children Help to Assess Water Health
- Inter Press Service
Miss, Miss, there are tiny creatures here in the water!' a Grade 7 pupil shouts excitedly, trying to draw attention to his water sample. At first, the liquid looks clear, but upon closer examination, one can make out a tiny aquatic invertebrate.
ARGENTINA: We're Drowning in Sadness' - Native Group's Land Flooded
- Inter Press Service
The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have faced for centuries.
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