By Dr. Noeleen Heyzer The recent Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development focused world attention on building the future we want. On the occasion of the International Youth Day, we should remember that we have a very precious resource in providing for a sustainable future, namely our young people. Over 60 per cent of [...]
Youth In Asia-Pacific: An Age Of Opportunity – OpEd
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Bloodbath In Sinai: New Al-Qaeda Plot – OpEd
By Mohyeddin Sajedi The suspicious and strange operation that took place in Sinai Desert in Egypt and close to the Israeli border is an instance of what some Middle Eastern countries are going to experience. Several individuals attacked the Egyptian border post at a time when the Muslim soldiers were breaking their Ramadan fast. Without [...]
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Philippines: Rains And Flooding Paralyzes Manila
Flood waters caused by heavy torrential rains forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in Manila and other nine provinces of the Luzon area, including Bulacan and Bataan. According to the Inquirer, half of the city – inhabited by 16-million – is paralyzed, with schools and offices closed. Typhoon Saola hit the northern [...]
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Nigeria: Attack On Evangelical Church Leaves At Least 16 Dead
Gunmen opened fire against an evangelical church in northern Nigeria, killing at least 16 people, including the pastor who was celebrating mass. According to the Nigerian media, the attack, the latest of a series against Christians, took place last night at the Deeper Life Bible Church in Otite, in Kogi State. The gunmen fled the [...]
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US/Texas: Halt Execution Of Man With Intellectual Disabilities, Says HRW
Texas should not execute a man who has significant intellectual disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today. Marvin Lee Wilson, who was sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a police drug informant in 1992, is scheduled to be executed on August 7, 2012. In 2002 the United States Supreme Court, in Atkins v. [...]
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19 Iranian Arabs Detained In Khuzestan Province
Security forces in Iran’s Khuzestan Province have arrested nineteen Iranians from the Sunni Arab minority, a human rights source reported on Tuesday. According to the Human Rights Activists news agency, at least nineteen Iranians of Sunni Arab origin have been detained in various cities in the country’s Khuzestan Province. The group said that it was [...]
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China Consolidates Rare Earth Industry And Builds Strategic Reserves – Analysis
By Nabeel A. Mancheri China has started to regulate the rare-earth industry intensively since 2010. Its policy measures have heightened the consolidation process of the industry and the country has started to build strategic reserve of the minerals. These policies will provide China more power to fix the prices and control the supply in the [...]
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Yongxing Island: China’s Diego Garcia In South China Sea? – Analysis
By Sarabjeet Singh Parmar China’s decision to set up a military garrison on Sansha on the Yongxing Island (also known as Woody Island) in the Paracel chain along with creating a city administration could be seen as a step in firstly expanding its military reach, secondly strengthening its claims in the South China Sea, and [...]
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US Elections: Romney Flubs Foreign Policy Tour – Analysis
By Ernest Corea Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has returned home from a three country tour that does not appear to have done him much good. Romney’s foreign policy Grand Tour of the UK, Israel and Poland was expected to be a voyage of exposure. He would expose his foreign policy gravitas to his hosts. [...]
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On Drugs And Democracy – OpEd
By Inge Fryklund The UN Office of Drug Control (UNODC) has thoroughly documented the violence, crime, and corruption linked with the worldwide heroin and opium trade. The U.S. news media report every day on the mayhem and corruption of government officials caused by the drug wars in Mexico, Colombia, and other points south of our [...]
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Spanish Companies Need Latin America For Economic Expansion – Analysis
By Mar Guinot Aguado and Darya Vakulenko As the European financial crisis intensifies, Spanish corporations have exhibited a rather bold economic game plan in the Latin American market. However, this is not the first time that Spanish corporations have turned to the once shunned region in the search for economic growth and prosperity. The potential [...]
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Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead In The Middle East – OpEd
Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed Turkey the right to station military personnel at the mausoleum of Suleyman Shah (Süleyman Şah), [...]
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A New Global Warming Culprit: Dam Drawdowns
Washington State University researchers have documented an underappreciated suite of players in global warming: dams, the water reservoirs behind them, and surges of greenhouse gases as water levels go up and down. Bridget Deemer, a doctoral student at Washington State University-Vancouver, measured dissolved gases in the water column of Lacamas Lake in Clark County and [...]
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California’s Hydroelectricity Production Vulnerable To Climate Change
California’s hydropower is vulnerable to climate change, a University of California, Riverside scientist has advised policymakers in “Our Changing Climate,” a report released July 31 by the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission (CEC). “Climate change is expected to affect the quantity and timing of water flow in the state,” explained Kaveh [...]
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10 Myths Of “Say On Pay”
Many companies currently face an unenviable task: how to attract and retain top talent amid a growing public backlash against exorbitant executive pay. To make matters worse, many of the worst cases of CEO largesse have played out against a backdrop of rising austerity and widening income inequality. But now the public — and in [...]
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India: Posters Warn Girls Of Acid Attacks If Caught Wearing Jeans
Posters threatening girls with acid attacks if they ventured out in jeans have emerged in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The handwritten posters have been put up by Jharkhand Mukti Sangh at several points in the city, including St. Xavier’s College and Albert Ekka roundabout. “From August 20, jeans have been banned for girls. Any girl will be [...]
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Faith Groups Condemn Shootings At Wisconsin Sikh Temple
By Chris Herlinger A broad spectrum of U.S. religious groups — Christian, Jewish and Muslim — are condemning killings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that authorities described as an act of “domestic terrorism.” The gunman, Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old U.S. Army veteran, killed six people and injured three others on 5 August at [...]
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Apple Poised To Buy Pinterest Rival The Fancy – Report
Apple is reportedly interested in acquiring The Fancy, a fast-growing social network that has been compared to Pinterest, according to Digital Spy. The Business Insider US technology blog first reported the potential deal, claiming that it is part of Apple’s further move into the e-commerce market. Thefancy.com bears the slogan “Discover amazing stuff, collect the [...]
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Burma’s New Press Law: Everyone’s On Board But The Media – OpEd
By Zin Linn On August 6 some most important news journals – such as The Messenger and The Nation – in Burma blacked out their cover pages as a sign of protest amid rising discontentment with long-lasting limits on the freedom of press. On the same day, officials of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Department [...]
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US: Suspect In Shooting Of Arizona Congresswoman Pleads Guilty
(RFE/RL) — The man accused of a shooting rampage at an Arizona political rally that killed six people and left a U.S. congresswoman seriously wounded has pleaded guilty. Jared Lee Loughner’s plea on August 7 comes after a federal judge ruled that months of forced medication for Loughner’s schizophrenia made him competent to understand the [...]
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