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- ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Locals Oppose Open Pit Mining For Copper, Gold
TAMPAKAN, Mindanao, Feb 20 (IPS) - Under the fertile farmland and forests of southern Mindanao sits what may be one of the biggest copper deposits in South-east Asia. But whether the owners of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project should be permitted to tap the mineral lode is under question. - DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Urban-Rural Divide Set To Widen
BANGKOK, Feb 18 (IPS) - Phnom Penh’s skyline is set for a dramatic change, now that South Korean companies have confirmed plans to build two skyscrapers in the Cambodian capital. The 42-storey Gold Tower is scheduled to be completed by 2011, while a 53-storey structure will be ready the following year. - ECONOMY: Poll Finds Wide Perception of Unfairness
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (IPS) - An average of nearly two out of three people in 34 countries around the world believe that the benefits and burdens resulting from changes in their nation's economy over the last few years are not being distributed fairly, according to a new multinational survey released Thursday by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). - ECONOMY: Lin Yifu's World Bank Job May Add To China's Clout
BEIJING, Jan 31 (IPS) - The pending appointment of a Chinese academic as chief economist in one of the world’s prime financial institutions, the World Bank, comes at a time of symbolic shifts in economic power from west to east and foreshadows a more assertive China on the international stage. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Diversity, a Birthright Waiting to Be Recognised
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil, Jan 28 (IPS) - For many people, the World Social Forum (WSF)’s influence and effect is waning, perhaps because it has outpaced public opinion and the dominant political processes, but not the real needs of the times, which require complex and urgent solutions. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Mumbai Marches on Against Globalisation
MUMBAI, Jan 27 (IPS) - There was grim determination on the faces of the 500-strong crowd that marched through the streets of this western port city for the World Social Forum’s Global Day of Action on Saturday. - KENYA: Media’s Role in the Election Fallout
GENEVA, Jan 24 (IPS) - As Kenya’s tenth parliament met for the first time last week, the violence that rocked the country after the announcement of Mwai Kibaki as the presidential winner in the Dec. 2007 elections had largely died down. But the country is bracing for more violence and turmoil. - DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Democracy In Conflict With Free Market Policy
NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (TerraViva/IPS) - Two years ago India was the toast of global investors at the World Economic Forum meet in Davos with the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proudly proclaiming the country as the ‘world’s largest free market democracy’. - Q&A: ‘If the WSF Didn’t Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Create It’
BAMAKO, Jan 22 (IPS) - Aminata Dramane Traoré, one of the leaders of the anti-globalisation movement in Mali, reckons that the World Social Forum (WSF) is a representative movement that is essential to the common struggle of people oppressed by a "violent world economy" which often flouts fundamental rights. - WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Kenya’s Forum to Debate Democracy
NAIROBI, Jan 21 (IPS) - During the World Social Forum (WSF) held in Kenya in January of 2007 one of the many presentations was about democracy and the general elections that were to be held here in December. - Q&A: ‘WSF Is As Much a Cultural Struggle As a Political One’
COIMBRA, Portugal, Jan 21 (IPS) - The movement against capitalism, injustice and oppression requires a strong convergence of social organisations that have fully accepted their differences, said sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, who predicted serious future difficulties for World Social Forum (WSF) meetings. - EU-CARIBBEAN: New EPA Sets Timeline For Trade Liberalisation
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 21 (IPS) - Come Jan.1 a new trade and aid pact between fifteen Caribbean nations and the 27 members of the European Union (EU) kicks into force heralding in a new era in relations between the two trade blocs that will be based largely on reciprocity rather than protected trade, as has been the case for centuries. - HEALTH-INDIA: Prime Destination for Unethical Clinical Trials
BANGALORE, Dec 14 (IPS) - Lack of regulation, accountability, low costs of operation and wide availability of target participants are reasons why multinational drug companies, researchers and institutions are increasingly basing their clinical trials in India. - CLIMATE CHANGE: Serious Security Threat Warns Report
NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (IPS) - While science and economics dominate the ongoing United Nations climate change conference in Bali, a new report warns of another serious consequence to global warming related events -- increased conflicts in vulnerable areas. - CLIMATE CHANGE: Who Pays for Carbon on 'Made in China' Labels?
BEIJING, Dec 11 (IPS) - Standing on the brink of a year when its capital hosts the much-proclaimed ‘Green Olympics’, China is anxious to present a constructive presence at the United Nations climate change conference underway in Bali, Indonesia.
