News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 887
China Summons Past to Advance Into Africa
- Inter Press Service
Irked by accusations that it is the new coloniser of Africa, China is looking to use soft power and historical evidence of its ancient links to the continent to justify its economic embrace of Africa.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Staying Afloat With Submarine Rice
- Inter Press Service
South Asian rice farmers are switching to flood-tolerant strains of rice as insurance against inundations.
EUROPE: Where the Roma Begin to Prosper
- Inter Press Service
The 'gypsy market' in Brasov is bustling with activity on a Saturday morning. It's one of the few places left where pensioners and other low-income Romanians can buy decent clothes cheaply. And also here, the power dynamics between Roma and non-Roma is silently shifting.
MALAWI: Village Chief Leads Fight Against Maternal Health
- Inter Press Service
In Ntcheu, a rural district in central Malawi, villagers have taken the fight against the country's high maternal mortality rate into their own hands. They have almost eradicated maternal deaths in the area by urging pregnant women to give birth in hospitals, under medical supervision.
Trinidad Scraps Controversial Smelter
- Inter Press Service
The new government of Trinidad and Tobago wasted little time. In fact, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran took less than 30 seconds of a two-hour budget presentation to announce that the People's Partnership government, headed by the country's first female prime minister, Kamla Persad Bissessar, was scrapping the $66.6 million dollar smelter plant project involving investors from China and Brazil.
U.S.: Sikhs Need Not Apply
- Inter Press Service
A North Carolina man is joining a growing group of Sikhs who are looking to U.S. courts to remedy the 'ignorance and intolerance' faced by practitioners of the religion, especially since the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, which they say 'unleashed a torrent of discrimination'.
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Tax Could be The Way Out of Aid Dependence
- Inter Press Service
Many African countries struggle with debt and finding money for national budgets because they fail to recognise taxation as a sustainable source of funding. Moreover, multinational companies are too easily given tax breaks while siphoning off money through illegal tax evasion.
Greek Society Falling, Falling…
- Inter Press Service
People walking casually past a sleeping or unconscious person has become a recurrent scene in downtown Athens these days. At Omonia square in the heart of the Greek capital one sees signs of social degeneration and segregation that were unknown only a decade ago.
Water Strategy Key to Cities of the Future
- Inter Press Service
A diverse group of more than 4,500 professionals from the water industry gathered here to send a resounding message: a sharp break from past practices of water distribution and wastewater management is needed to cope with the burgeoning population growth in cities and impending water scarcity.
RIGHTS-AFRICA: 'Investors Should Help Democratise Zimbabwe'
- Inter Press Service
While investors need assurances about property rights and the protection of investments before they will invest in Zimbabwe’s precarious economy, the state of democracy in the Southern African country should also be a consideration.
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