Global Issues
News headlines for “G8: Too Much Power?”, page 415
Draft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 02 (IPS) - The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by climate change while also noting the project would "not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects".
China Maps Out Venezuela's Valuable Mining Resources
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Feb 28 (IPS) - An agreement signed by the government of Venezuela and the Chinese state-owned company Citic Group for prospecting and mapping the country's mining reserves is being challenged by both the opposition and experts who argue that it will leave valuable natural resources dangerously exposed.
New Development Bank to be Key BRICS Building Block
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 28 (IPS) - Emerging market leaders want their Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa club to be taken seriously, and next month they are expected to make a decisive move towards setting up a development bank to give it real substance and credibility.
Lake Malawi Dispute Instils Fear in Fisherfolk
- Inter Press Service
KARONGA, Malawi, Feb 27 (IPS) - Since he was nine years old, Martin Mhango from Karonga village in northern Malawi has known no other livelihood than fishing. And for the last 33 years he has been fishing freely on Lake Malawi – that is, until last October when he was detained and beaten by Tanzanian security forces.??
Kenya’s Electoral Opinion Polling Marred by Suspicion
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 27 (IPS) - When Kenya's only female presidential candidate, Martha Karua, dismissed electoral opinion pollsters who claimed that she stood a mere one percent chance of being elected to office, many said she did so because the results had not favoured her.
Cuba, an Island of Questions
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Feb 27 (IPS) - The Cuban National Assembly, the parliament, has just passed a historic milestone: the visible turning point when one momentous and complex phase in the life of the country begins to come to a close, and a door opens on a future that, however hard to predict, will in many ways be different.
Q&A: South Korean Brands Invade Global Markets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former foreign minister of South Korea, met with Psy last October, he jokingly told the wildly popular rapper that he was "a bit jealous" of him.
Profits Before Safety in Pakistan's Factories
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Feb 26 (IPS) - Twenty-seven-year-old Muhammad Arif works at a steel re-rolling mill in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's northeastern Punjab province, producing steel ingots from scrap.
Green-Fingered Mauritian Farmers Go Green
- Inter Press Service
PORT LOUIS, Feb 26 (IPS) - By Kritanand Beeharry's side are thousands of watermelon seedlings that he has grown in small pots without the use of chemical fertilisers.
As the farmer prepares his half-hectare piece of land in Soreze, near Mauritius' capital Port-Louis, to plant the two-week-old seedlings, he takes a minute to admire his achievement. "Look at these, they look solid and better grown -- it's the compost," he says.
Tourism Lies at the Heart of the BRICS
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 26 (IPS) - As tourism between the emerging nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa starts to increase, South Africa is determined weld the iron while it is hot.
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