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- ENERGY-MEXICO: PEMEX in Death Throes Amid Political Squabbling
MEXICO CITY, Feb 26 (IPS) - Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX, is broke, and the country’s crude oil reserves will run out in less than 10 years. But although local politicians agree on the diagnosis, few are proposing solutions, while recriminations, by contrast, are flying thick and fast. - 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. - DEVELOPMENT-MALAYSIA: Civil Society Stalls Eight Billion Dollar Project
PENANG, Jan 25 (IPS) - Civil society groups here are mulling their next move after having stalled a massive, private project to build close to 40 high-rise towers on a precious green lung on this land-scarce Malaysian island. - GREECE: Defending Nationalism In The Air
ATHENS, Jan 14 (IPS) - The European Commission (EC) announced a formal investigation Dec. 20 into complaints that the Greek state is illegally subsidising its national air carrier. - EUROPE: Call to Keep Water Clean of Privatisation
BRUSSELS, Jan 7 (IPS) - Water supply could increasingly be managed by private firms once a new European Union treaty enters into force, experts warned Monday. - BALKANS: Serbs Wait For Free Wealth
BELGRADE, Jan 7 (IPS) - Going by official media, the Kosovo dispute seems to top the nation's agenda. But Serbs have their mind more on visions of free wealth that they believe will be theirs, after the Law on Free Distribution of Shares came into force last week. - POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Election Year Fraught With Multiple Troubles
PENANG, Jan 2 (IPS) - Malaysia enters what is widely expected to be an election year with its ruling coalition looking its frailest in recent times. Economic grievances, inter-religious disputes and unfulfilled pledges have spawned growing disillusionment with the administration of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi that could erode popular support for the ruling coalition. - PAKISTAN: Rail Accidents - More Than Nuts and Bolts
KARACHI, Dec 24 (IPS) - While authorities have attributed the Dec. 19 railway tragedy to a possible rail fracture from cold weather, experts say the issue is not about nuts and bolts but a reflection of overall transport policy. - BRAZIL: Auction of Oil Blocks in the Crossfire
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 27 (IPS) - Foreign and national companies bid Tuesday for oil exploration rights in Brazil in an auction opposed by social movements, which are demanding the reinstatement of the state-run Petrobras’s monopoly over the country’s oil and natural gas reserves. - ECUADOR: No Dial Tone, No Contract
QUITO, Nov 21 (IPS) - The possible cancellation of the mobile telephone operating licence granted by Ecuador to Porta Celular, a company indirectly owned by Mexican multi-millionaire Carlos Slim, could set a precedent in Latin America. - PHILIPPINES: Water Privatisation - Boon or MNC Conspiracy?
MANILA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Supporters call it a model for the future. But critics say it is a conspiracy by multilateral financial institutions to privatise water supplies and open the floodgates for multinational corporations (MNCs) to reap profits from Asia's poor. - PERU-IRAQ: A Year in Hell for 1,000 Dollars a Month
LIMA, Nov 6 (IPS) - Former Peruvian noncommissioned army officer Norman Alfonso Solano is happy because he has once again been recruited to work as a private security guard in one of the most dangerous places in the world: Iraq. - ASIA: Water Services - Fee or Free?
KARACHI, Nov 3 (IPS) - Access to safe water may be touted as a human right, but inadequate supplies, crumbling water systems and the galloping needs of growing populations are forcing experts, government utilities and funding agencies to ponder over devising sustainable water service networks in Asia’s teeming cities. - CHILE: Mega Dams, Mega Impacts, Mega Half-Truths
SANTIAGO, Sep 25 (IPS) - An organisation in the Aysén region in the south of Chile which opposes the building of five hydroelectric stations on two large rivers has made a documentary film about the reactions of communities affected by dams and power lines in Chile and Argentina. - FRANCE: Sarkozy Hedges Free Market With Gov't Control
PARIS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Following nearly two years of squabbling, this month France’s national gas utility, Gaz de France, finally agreed to team up with the Franco-Belgian utility Suez, to create an energy behemoth with some 72 billion euros in revenue.
