The following article was written by June Van Ingen for GroundReport.com, 1/30/08: Among the many TV channels I subscribe to are Aljazeera, the English language TV station based in Doha, just about a year old, and Russia Today, an English language channel based in Moscow. Both supply twenty-four hour news coverage. Aljazeera is the richest […]
World Economic Forum Concludes
According to Mr.Klaus Schwab, the founder of World Economic Forum, this year’s meet ended on a moderately optimistic note and the forum took note of the innumerable opportunities that lay before the world. This rhetoric apart, this year’s world Economic Forum mainly concentrated on three major issues, viz, Peace in Middle-east, Terrorism and […]
Weak US Economy a disaster to RP’s growth
The continuing slump of the US economy has a chilling effect on the Philippines economic stability. Economic experts predicted that export, tourism, employment, dollar remittances and BPO or Business Process Outsourcing will be directly hit by the threat of economic recession in the US. Though, US President George W. Bush took the necessary steps to […]
John Dayal : Profiling an Activist
n the aftermath of the recent violence against Christians in Orissa, I realized once again that while human rights are universal and important, every community needs a John Dayal, for while human rights as a whole needs champions, minority rights needs many more champions. John Dayal wears many hats. He is the Chairman of the […]
China should stop arresting citizen journalists
The arrest of Hu Jia, a Chinese web dissident who has blogged about AIDs and the forthcoming Summer Olympic Games, was placed under house arrest by the Chinese police. It’s good that his wife, who just delivered, was spared from the wrath. With Hu’s arrest, it will be too far when the light of the […]
African Trade Unionism: A New Face
Two regional trade union organisations, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions-Africa Regional Organisation (ICFTU-AFRO) and Democratic Organisation of African Workers Trade Unions (DOAWTU) that merged into Independent National Trade Union Centres within the African region (ITUC-AFRICA) on Wednesday November 28, 2007 met in Accra-Ghana. They will forever relish the memory of the desire to […]
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