Economy
URUGUAY: Countryside Offers Different Kind of Tourism
August 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog / IPS Luis Alberto Carro SAN PEDRO, Uruguay, Aug 15 (IPS) – Uruguayans and tourists from other countries escape the stress of city life and learn about rural living on once prosperous dairy farms and picturesque small farms near the city of Colonia in western Uruguay, where families have found a new livelihood û and way of life û in ”agro-ecotourism”. Families in the small farming town of San Pedro, near the city of Colonia, turned to that alternative to overcome the severe economic crisis of 2002, which threatened to wipe their farms off the map. The area is... [Read the full story]
Geopolitics
CHINA: AS SEEN & INTERPRETED BY "THE HINDU"
August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog B.RAMAN Normally, I do not pay serious attention to reports and articles on China carried by "The Hindu" of Chennai. Its sympathy for China and its policy in recent years of keeping out of its columns any report or article of a negative nature on China is well known. Equally well known is its policy of placing its columns at the disposal of the Xinhua news agency of China, which is owned by the Government of China, without telling its readers that the Xinhua is a mouthpiece of the Chinese Government. It generally tries to create an impression in the minds of... [Read the full story]
Environment
URUGUAY: Countryside Offers Different Kind of Tourism
August 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog / IPS Luis Alberto Carro SAN PEDRO, Uruguay, Aug 15 (IPS) – Uruguayans and tourists from other countries escape the stress of city life and learn about rural living on once prosperous dairy farms and picturesque small farms near the city of Colonia in western Uruguay, where families have found a new livelihood û and way of life û in ”agro-ecotourism”. Families in the small farming town of San Pedro, near the city of Colonia, turned to that alternative to overcome the severe economic crisis of 2002, which threatened to wipe their farms off the map. The area is... [Read the full story]
Human Rights
RIGHTS-CHILE: Mapuche Activist’s Death Heats Up Conflict
August 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Aug 14 (IPS) – The lack of opportunities for dialogue and participation and the struggle for control over land and natural resources in Chile are hurdles to a solution to the Mapuche Indians’ century-long conflict, which claimed a new victim this week: a 24-year-old activist shot by the police while taking part in an occupation of land claimed as indigenous territory. Jaime Mendoza Collío, who was killed Wednesday in the community of Angol in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, was the third indigenous activist... [Read the full story]
Health
INDIA: Swine Flu Tests Privatised Health Care
August 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (IPS) – While the swine flu pandemic has not hit India too hard, it has sorely tested the country’s ailing health delivery system and its plans to remedy the situation through ‘private-public partnerships.’ Much of the drama is playing out in the western Indian city of Pune where the death of a 14-year-old schoolgirl, on Aug. 3, following misdiagnosis at a private hospital where she was being treated, has led to charges in the media that the government was not doing enough contain the spread of the A(H1N1) virus. Health... [Read the full story]
Politics
POLITICS-US: J Street’s Muslim Funding for Peace
August 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Global Issues Blog / IPS By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – News reports and right-wing blogs have been repeating reports which claim that Muslims and Arabs are among the donors to the J Street political action committee (PAC) which lobbies American policymakers to work on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and helps raise campaign funds for candidates who share the views of J Street on promoting American leadership in the peace process. The report that J Street PAC receives a small percentage – J Street’s Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami, guessed... [Read the full story]
MYANMAR – ANOTHER INSTANCE OF OBAMA’S REALPOLITIK
B.RAMAN In my article of March 10,2009, titled “Obama: Good-Bye To Dalai Lama & Aung San Suu Kyi, Hail Hu Jintao” , available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers31/paper3090.html , I wrote as follows: “There has been no surge in US rhetoric vis-a-vis China after Barack Obama assumed...
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Asia
CHINA: AS SEEN & INTERPRETED BY "THE HINDU"
Global Issues Blog B.RAMAN Normally, I do not pay serious attention to reports...
MYANMAR – ANOTHER INSTANCE OF OBAMA’S REALPOLITIK
B.RAMAN In my article of March 10,2009, titled “Obama: Good-Bye To Dalai Lama...
INDIA: Swine Flu Tests Privatised Health Care
Global Issues Blog / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (IPS) – While...
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Americas
MYANMAR – ANOTHER INSTANCE OF OBAMA’S REALPOLITIK
B.RAMAN In my article of March 10,2009, titled “Obama: Good-Bye To Dalai Lama...
TOURISM-COSTA RICA: Much More Than a Walk in the Countryside
Global Issues Blog / IPS Daniel Zueras* – Tierramérica SAN JOSÉ, Aug 16 ...
RIGHTS-CHILE: Mapuche Activist’s Death Heats Up Conflict
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