The guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing numbers of consumers are finding themselves irreparably strapped financially — and market profits dominoes have already begun to fall. But this […]
Majority of Americans Increasingly Opposed To Free Trade
A recent poll has produced results that may not be favorable for presumed GOP nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona. So far, McCain has been pushing his support on the issue of free trade. This was the purpose of McCain’s trip to both Mexico and Colombia. McCain is trying to present the advantages that free […]
Peru: President Says Country Closer to Overcoming Poverty
President Alan Garcia has claimed that Peru is a step away from overcoming poverty and soon will no longer be a developing nation. Garcia said that by the year 2015, less than 10% of Peruvians would be living in poverty. Bloggers throughout the country sized up on the president’s words: Roberto Bustamante, writing in El […]
Women’s lack of rights is a great obstacle for freedom of information in Bangladesh.
Women are the majority part of the total population. But they are being suffered by many ways in whole world especially in the third world countries like Bangladesh. We are telling about the rights of information. But first we have to think about the rights of the huge number of women who are making a […]
Korea: Chinese Students Fear for Safety after Torch Relay Violence
by John Kennedy Last week someone left a comment on a GVO post, something to the effect of ‘the whole world hates the Chinese people now’ and for a lot of people in (and outside) China, it sure is looking difficult to evenbe Chinese these days. Following the violence in Seoul during the Olympic torch relay there last week, […]
Rising Demand For Rice Reminds Countries to Think About Direction of Development
Presumably, not many people would have expected the buoyant economy to culminate into such a food shortages crisis? The phenomenon can be attributed to rising demand of crops for biofuel, which ultimately alleviates the need for fossil fuel, and thus improves our air quality. In addition, rice export countries such as Thailand, is trying to […]