Recently added articles from Inter Press Service English News Wire:
CUBA: BIOTECH EXPORT SALES SHOWING GROWTH
Dec 01, 2009; Patricia Grogg ... Patricia Grogg Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 HAVANA, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The promising anti-cancer antibody nimotuzumab, developed by Agustn Lage, head of the Centre for Molecular Immunology (CIM), is currently undergoing clinical trials in the United ...
ENVIRONMENT: 'TREE PLANTATIONS' REPLACING NATURAL FORESTS
Dec 01, 2009; Marcela Valente ... Marcela Valente Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Touted as "harvested forests," single-crop tree plantations are fast encroaching on the native forests and grasslands of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, affecting the ...
Q&A: EVEN ISLAND STATES CAN IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY
Dec 01, 2009; ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 Nasseem Ackbarally interviews ERIC MANGAR of the Movement for Food Self-Sufficiency (MAA) in Mauritius PORT LOUIS, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Eric Mangar deplores the fact that Mauritius, despite being a net food importer, ...
CLIMATE CHANGE: INDIA PONDERS WAY FORWARD TO COPENHAGEN
Dec 01, 2009; Analysis by Ranjit Devraj ... Analysis by Ranjit Devraj Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 NEW DELHI, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - With one week left before the start of the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, there is still no reliable word as to whether Indian Prime Minister ...
INDIA: TOWARDS AN AIDS-FREE SOCIETY, BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
Dec 01, 2009; Analysis by Neeta Lal ... Analysis by Neeta Lal Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 NEW DELHI, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - As the global community observes World AIDS Day today, India is caught in a rancorous debate about a government scheme which mandates that all pregnant women in the ...
WORLD AIDS DAY: GROWING UP WITH HIV
Dec 01, 2009; Zarina Geloo ... Zarina Geloo Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 LUSAKA, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine ...
INDIA: CLIMATE CHANGE FUELS RURAL OUT-MIGRATION, RISING DEBT
Dec 01, 2009; Manipadma Jena/IFEJ * ... Manipadma Jena/IFEJ * Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 BHUBANESWAR, India, Dec. 1, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his ...
U.S.: KATRINA LAWSUIT RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT LEVEE SAFETY
Dec 01, 2009; Matthew Cardinale ... Matthew Cardinale Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Since a federal judge ruled earlier this month that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for the devastating 2005 levee breach at the Mississippi River ...
US-IRAN: MOVING AGAIN TOWARD CONFRONTATION
Dec 01, 2009; Analysis by Jim Lobe* ... Analysis by Jim Lobe* Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Iran's announced intention to build 10 new nuclear enrichment plants has been deemed "unacceptable" by the administration of President Barack Obama, which warned ...
MEDIA-LATIN AMERICA: WOMEN DESERVE BETTER PRESS
Dec 01, 2009; Angel Paez ... Angel Pez Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 LIMA, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - "The press will change when they cease to report exclusively from a man's point of view," Peru's deputy Minister for Women, Norma Aaos, told participants at an international seminar ...
HONDURAS: U.S. CRITICIZED FOR RECOGNIZING POST-COUP VOTE
Dec 01, 2009; Matthew Berger ... Matthew Berger Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - On a sunny Sunday afternoon in Washington, DC's Mount Pleasant neighborhood, about 50 protestors lined up outside a polling station where voting was taking place to help ...
POLITICS-NAMIBIA: 'BORN FREES' MAKE THEIR MARK
Dec 01, 2009; Servaas van den Bosch ... Servaas van den Bosch Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 WINDHOEK, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Eleventh grade student Horstancia Namises, 19, stares at the purple stain on her left thumb, speechless. The mark is a symbol of her coming of age, a sure sign that she ...
HONDURAS: PRESIDENT-ELECT PROMISES UNITY GOVERNMENT
Dec 01, 2009; Thelma Mejia ... Thelma Meja Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Porfirio Lobo, the presidential candidate of the right-wing National Party, carried the Sunday elections in Honduras that were backed by the de facto government in power since ...
Q&A: NEW PATHS TO SUSTAINABLE SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION
Dec 01, 2009; ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-01-2009 NAIROBI, Nov. 30, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Countries from the South are assuming leading roles in decisions on global issues ranging from economic recovery to food security, climate change and HIV/AIDS. Complementing the new ...
ENVIRONMENT: NEW PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEAN INVADES FROM PACIFIC
Dec 02, 2009; Humberto Marquez ... Humberto Mrquez Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 CARACAS, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The red lionfish (Pterois volitans), a venomous coral reef fish from the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, has invaded the waters of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, and ...
Q&A: 'READY, WILLING AND ABLE', VIETNAM IS SET FOR REGIONAL ROLE
Dec 02, 2009; ... Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 Helen Clark interviews Professor CARL THAYER, an expert on Vietnam HANOI, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Professor Carl Thayer, a Vietnam expert with the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, was in Hanoi last week for a ...
JAPAN: AGING POPULATION NEEDS MORE THAN SHORT-TERM SOLUTIONS
Dec 02, 2009; Catherine Makino ... Catherine Makino Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 TOKYO, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Sachiko Yamada has been hoping to spend her retirement years traveling and living the good life. Today she devotes her time to taking care of her 90-year-old mother five days a ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: LATINAS UNITE AGAINST ANTI-ABORTION LAW
Dec 02, 2009; Elizabeth Eames Roebling ... Elizabeth Eames Roebling Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 SANTO DOMINGO, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Dominican organizations focused on the rights of women are bringing in assistance from all over Latin America to aid them in their fight against Article 30 in ...
TRADE: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES EYE NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Dec 02, 2009; IPS Correspondents ... IPS Correspondents Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 NAIROBI, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The High-Level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation kicked off here Tuesday, with U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha Rose Migiro calling for practical ...
ECONOMY: NEO-LIBERALISM ERODING NORDIC WELFARE SYSTEMS
Dec 02, 2009; Linus Atarah ... Linus Atarah Inter Press Service English News Wire 12-02-2009 HELSINKI, Dec. 2, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Nordic welfare state systems, often held up as model in the developed world, are crumbling under the assault of neo-liberal economic policies, say economic experts. All five ...
