Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, June 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Omid Memarian UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 (IPS) – Although some policy-makers have blamed producing countries for steadily rising oil prices, many experts say more fundamental factors are a growing demand-supply imbalance, a weak dollar, and market speculation. ”Most [...]
FINANCE: Investment Curbs Seen Stifling World Economy
June 28, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, June 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Abid Aslam WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) – The United States and other beneficiaries of foreign investment are seeking to restrict it, a leading U.S. think tank says in a report warning that this ”protectionist drift” could roil capital [...]
POLITICS: Is Democracy Dangerous in Multi-ethnic Society?
June 28, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, June 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Frances Stewart, Oxford University Professor of Development Economics OXFORD, Jun 26 (IPS) – The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) would seem to have its work cut out for it in a [...]
Count down begins for Indian elections
June 27, 2008 By
Global News Blog Friday, June 27, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By M Rama Rao Delhi based Journalist No longer there is a question mark over India’s poll date. For eleven months, the political pundits have been crystal gazing. Now after the stormy Wednesday (June 25) meeting of the ruling [...]
TENSIONS ACROSS DURAND LINE
June 22, 2008 By
Global News BlogSunday, June 22, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. M RAMA RAO Delhi based journalist The irony is difficult to miss. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan is threatening Pakistan with hot pursuit. This means, the day when Afghan soldiers would cross the Durand Line to smoke out Taliban warriors [...]
Churning in Dravidian politics
June 20, 2008 By
Global News BlogJune 20, 2008 This article appeared first in Syndicate Features weekly feature service.© Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By M RAMA RAO New Delhi (Syndicate Features): Karunanidhi’s lawmaker daughter Kanimozhi is formally launched in the Tamilnadu politics at the first ever Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) convention of its women activists [...]
ECONOMY-ANGOLA: Slowdown Will Hurt Trade Partners
June 19, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS June 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario de Queiroz LISBON, Jun 19 (IPS) – Slower economic growth in Angola will have a negative effect on exports from the southwest African nation’s main trading partners, especially Portugal and Brazil. Forecasts released in [...]
Diminishing Returns
June 17, 2008 By
Sri Lanka Scene Diminishing Returns Global News Blog June 17, 2008 This article appeared first in Syndicate Features weekly feature service. © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By M RAMA RAO New Delhi (Syndicate Features): The civil war in Sri Lanka is becoming bloodier by the day. The casualties are now in [...]
Sri Lanka: CROSSING SWORDS: NEW PRESCRIPTION FOR OLD AILMENT
June 16, 2008 By
Global News Blog Monday, June 16, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By M Rama Rao Delhi based journalist Every time I look at the map of Sri Lanka I wonder what has gone wrong with Sri Lankan diplomacy. They have a wonderful case to tell the world about the terrorism [...]
POLITICS-US: Coercive Diplomacy Disputed at Centrist Meet
June 14, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, June 14, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Jun 13 (IPS) – The assumption that the U.S. should exploit its military dominance to exert pressure on adversaries has long dominated the thinking of the U.S. national security and political elite in the past. [...]
