Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Helen Clark HANOI, Nov 3 (IPS) – As the expendable income of households in Hanoi increases, so does the amount of refuse generated. This is taking a toll on the city’s predominantly female force of garbage [...]
POLITICS-MOZAMBIQUE: Ready To Roll
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. John Keitta CHIMOIO, Mozambique, Nov 3 (IPS) – The posters and flyers are ready, and so is Marta Simango. Ready for Nov. 4, when the municipal elections campaign officially kicks off in Mozambique. Simango is running [...]
CHINA: Dam Casts Long Shadow Over Idyllic Valley
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Antoaneta Bezlova LIJIANG, Nov 3 (IPS) – The town at Tiger Leaping Gorge is a ghost town. Clusters of new apartments in mock-Tibetan style with whitewashed walls and ornate flat roofs sit all empty, with gaping [...]
AFGHANISTAN: ‘If Talks With Taliban Bring Peace, I’ll Support It’
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Anand Gopal KABUL, Nov 3 (IPS) – Western officials are increasingly turning to new strategies in an effort to stabilise Afghanistan and defeat the insurgency here, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The various [...]
SRI LANKA: Media Groups to Challenge New Restrictions
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Feizal Samath COLOMBO, Nov 3 (IPS) – Media groups in Sri Lanka, already restricted from covering the war against Tamil rebels in the north, are bracing to challenge new regulations that seek to control television broadcasting [...]
TIBET: ‘STATUS QUO PLUS’ AS AN OPTION?
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Monday, November 03, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN There is a note of increasing dejection in the post-Olympics statements and comments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his spokesmen regarding the future of Tibet. His hopes that in the wake of the protest [...]
THE INDIAN JIHADI NET
November 3, 2008 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 465 Global News Blog – Global Geopolitics Net Monday, November 03, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The number of fatalities in the serial explosions in Assam on the forenoon of October 30,2008, has since gone up to 75, with the death of some of [...]
Time to address trust deficit between Colombo and Tamils
November 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Monday, November 03, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. Sunday, November 02, 2008 By Malladi Rama Rao What a spat it was? It had turned upside down the logic of campaign journalists on either side of the Palk Strait. No surprise, therefore, all those in Colombo who [...]
