News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 923
INDIA: Experts Rue Untold Damage to Marine, Coastal Ecosystems
- Inter Press Service
In mid-April this year, MV Malavika, a cargo ship of the Essar Shipping Corporation, a major sea logistics firm in India, leaked an estimated eight tonnes of furnace oil after being struck by a barge near the Gopalpur port on the eastern Indian coast of Orissa.
LABOUR-URUGUAY: Women Still at a Disadvantage
- Inter Press Service
In the world of labour in Uruguay there is one indicator in which women are ahead: unemployment.
HEALTH-ASIA: New Infectious Diseases a Challenge to MDG Success
- Inter Press Service
While successful immunisation programmes worldwide have saved millions of lives, the threat of new infectious diseases and drug-resistant strains of existing diseases is posing a major challenge to governments, especially in developing regions like Asia, in meeting their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
CHINA: Spate of Factory Suicides Exposes Sorry Plight of Workers
- Inter Press Service
Ma Xiangqian, a 19-year-old migrant from the eastern Chinese province of Henan, worked the 11-hour night shift, seven days a week, putting together electronic parts for Foxconn Technology, the world’s biggest contract maker of information technology goods.
EU: 'Aid Must Also Aid the Giver'
- Inter Press Service
Aid to poor countries should be tailored more towards benefiting European firms, a top-level Brussels official has recommended.
POLITICS: Challenges Temper Optimism as New Premier Vows Reform
- Inter Press Service
Expectations are high for Japan’s new prime minister, Naoto Kan, who has taken over the reins of a country saddled with massive public debt and a domestic furore over the failure of the former head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and newly resigned premier Yukio Hatoyama to deliver on his campaign pledge to move the controversial U.S. military base out of the southern island of Okinawa.
THAILAND: Scientists Race to Find Microspecies Useful for Medicine
- Inter Press Service
She spends so much time immersed in water as if she were a mermaid. But Jariya Sakayaroj looks like she does not mind even if she ends up developing scales.
FRANCE: Migrants' Remittances Are a Cash Cow
- Inter Press Service
Immigrants in France send some eight billion euro (9.6 billion US dollars) a year back to their countries of origin, often paying exorbitant fees - though the French government has announced moves to lower tariffs.
Ecuador and the United States 'Make Up'
- Inter Press Service
'Ideological differences should not stand in the way of dialogue between governments': this was the common message sent out Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her host, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa.
AMERICAS: OAS Debates Same Old Problems, Few New Solutions
- Inter Press Service
The 40th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States, held in the Peruvian capital this week, failed to issue a decision on the reinstatement of Honduras, and instead served as a forum for Argentina, which seeks sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, and for Bolivia, in its fight for access to the Pacific Ocean.
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