By Solana Larsen Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to give up their legal residency and move “home”. This is just one of many creative initiatives spearheaded by the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party to make foreigners – and especially Muslims – feel unwelcome in this small European […]
Media Repression in Iran
By Zafar Iqbal Iran is amongst those unfortunate countries of the Middle East where authoritarian regimes frequently use unyielding measures to gag the press in order to prevent free flow of information. Media watchdog Reporters without Borders Press Freedom Index puts Iran at number 152 out of 173 countries. The Freedom House 2009 Report […]
Games-Driven Pollution Reduction Temporary, China Needs To Do More
New York Times’ Keith Bradsher reports from Hong Kong that Emissions of sulfur dioxide, mainly from coal-fired power plants and the primary cause of acid rain, declined 4.66 percent last year. Emissions of organic pollutants into waterways, as measured by tests of chemical oxygen demand, declined by 3.14 percent last year. Industries reduced their discharges […]
A lost opportunity that can be turnaround to benefit the economy.
The government should solve the housing problem of the hard-working young couples. Its not rocket sciences, just average capability with goodwill is enough to turn things around. Government wanted to use the growth of the housing sector to spur the economy. Unlike the developed world which is now spiraling down because of the sub-prime loans […]
Blowhards For & Against Leaf Blowers
Dobbs Ferry, New York. If you want to witness the dark underbelly of class conflict in America, just attend a hearing on leaf blowers at Village Hall in Dobbs Ferry. On opposite sides of the room and the issue, a raucous contingent of burly landscaping contractors squared off against a gaggle of politically correct professionals. […]