The European Union announced that it was suspending 2009 payment of 24 million Euro in subsidies to help prop up Fiji’s sugar industry. European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, admitted Fiji would have received the payment if it would have had a “legitimate government” in place. He was referring to the events […]
Obama’s Preventive Detention Problem: Breaking It Down
President Barack Obama’s support for preventively detaining terrorism suspects undoubtedly surprised some of his longtime backers. Holding prisoners at Guantanamo, without the certainty of trial or release, was a defining feature of the previous administration’s counterterrorism policy – and some of its fiercest critics expected Obama to change the policies. But the possibility had been […]
Malawi: Listen to Malawi Election Bloggers
Malawians are currently voting in the presidential and parliamentary elections. A group of Malawian bloggers were trained by PenPlusBytes, an International Institute of ICT Journalism in collaboration with New Media Institute to monitor and comment on the elections using blogs, twitter and mobile phones. Let’s take a look at their blogs, which are hosted on […]
Missing in Action:Africa and the G20
Missing In Action: Africa and the G 20 In the face of a global economic meltdown that has left leading even leading economies panting, a Summit was held recently in London, United Kingdom, to brain storm on the way forward. Dubbed the G-20, the countries that took part are considered as the leading economies […]
Pakistan is urging America for solid trust building
Pakistan urged the United States on Thursday to foster the anti-terrorism partnership with it on the basis of trust and sovereign equality, with its top diplomat in Washington cautioning against the notion of attaching "intrusive" conditions to American assistance for his nation. Pakistan’s state agency APP reports that in a "candid and frank" interaction […]
Watch Out for War Anarchy or Revolution
I am back after attending the Asia Media Conclave, organized by the Asia Media Forum and Asia Resource Foundation, on March 25-27, 2009 at Bangkok, Thailand. There were about 75 journalists from 20 Asian countries gathered there and took part in the deliberations that went on for three days on various issues pertaining to media […]
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