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PHILIPPINES: Presidential Bets Perform To Woo Voters: Lynette Lee Corporal* — Asia Media Forum
- Inter Press Service
Often described as too square and boring, Philippine presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III reaches out to the music-television generation as a smiling, hip-hop rapper in his television advertisement.
EAST EUROPE: 'Inevitable' Budget Cuts Anger Unions
- Inter Press Service
Trade unions in Romania and Bulgaria are embarking on a spring of protests in response to the governments’ anti-crisis measures involving considerable cuts in budget expenditure.
DEVELOPMENT: And How the Miracle Multiplied
- Inter Press Service
Most of these women had never known what it is to have the dollar a day everyone speaks of. And last year, they were seen as good enough between them to be lent a billion and a half dollars.
DEVELOPMENT: The Caribbean Trembles
- Inter Press Service
Better known for its hurricanes, the region that extends from the Cayman Islands in the west to the chain of Windward and Leeward Islands in the east is home to one of the earth's principal seismic belts.
DEVELOPMENT: Mega-Inequality in Urban Mega-Regions
- Inter Press Service
Basic services that are collapsing or non-existent, overcrowding, pollution: these are big-city problems that are compounded in developing countries by poverty and inequality.
LABOUR-URUGUAY: Improving Conditions for Waste Pickers
- Inter Press Service
'The time will come when 80 percent of the raw material used by industry in Uruguay will be recycled waste products,' Marcelo Conde, a 40-year-old garbage sorter who has been digging through trash for recyclables 'for as long as I can remember,' says with some pride.
EGYPT: Civil Society Sidelined Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Egypt's ruling party is taking measures to restrict the work of non-governmental organisations ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
BURMA: To Contest or Not? Suu Kyi’s Party Faces Tough Elections Test
- Inter Press Service
Is pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi condemning the opposition party that she heads in military-ruled Burma to political irrelevance or, worse still, a burial ahead of forthcoming elections?
POLITICS-INDIA: Bhopal Legacy Haunts Nuclear Liability Bill
- Inter Press Service
The U.S.-based multinational Union Carbide got away lightly after causing the world’s worst industrial tragedy at Bhopal, but that legacy has come to haunt U.S. corporations seeking to tap India’s newly opened market for nuclear power equipment.
ARTS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Women Dancers Can Fill Granaries
- Inter Press Service
'Some said, how can women dancers tell us about climate change? Some said, how can dancers talk about planting trees? Others asked, how can women dancers build schools? But now the government says a drum has managed to fill our granaries, a dancer has managed to build schools.'
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