CHINA By Mar 22 State Media Pushing for a Global Voice - Expanded overseas bureaus, more Chinese and foreign-language editorial products reaching global audiences and now, a reformatting of the country’s most widely read English-language newspaper. These are signs of the expansion of China’s state media, one that President Hu Jintao has described as an "increasingly fierce struggle in the domain of news and opinion". MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE By Mar 19 A Year On, Little Change in Political Climate - This time last year, United States federal legislation on climate change was starting to take shape, seemingly more pressing matters were taking up the bulk of U.S. policymakers' time, and a major climate conference was looming at the end of the year. MORE >>
Q&A By Mar 19 Sri Lanka Remains Defiant of U.N. Chief - The Sri Lankan government continues to challenge U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's right to appoint a panel of experts to advise him on the human rights situation - euphemistically called "accountability issues" – following the end of a protracted conflict against a secessionist group widely considered a terrorist organisation. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT By Mar 19 Political Will the Missing Link for MDGs - Despite numerous factors that threaten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 - a global financial crisis, a food crisis, climate change, natural disasters – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this week that his main concern is "political will". MORE >>
POLITICS-BURMA By Mar 19 A Poll, Yes, But Not Political Change - In teashops and markets, the national election due this year in Burma is the talk of the town, so much so that Thuzar, who did not take part in the 1990 poll, is quite eager to cast her vote this time. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE By Mar 18 The U.N.'s Boys' Club - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's decision to appoint a 19-member, all-male high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing (CCF) has triggered strong protests from women's groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) outraged by the composition of the panel. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT By Mar 18 Bad Water More Deadly Than War - Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). MORE >>
Q&A By Mar 18 Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty - Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February. MORE >>
WORLD CUP By Mar 17 But South Africa Will Win - Less than a hundred days to go, and the world looks on, often more with scepticism than anticipation. MORE >>
DISARMAMENT By Mar 17 Japan Pushes for Progress in U.S. Nuclear Review - Japanese parliamentarians and activists pin high hopes on the hotly debated and much anticipated U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to which the Barack Obama administration is reported to be giving finishing touches. MORE >>
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