(April 8, 2003) Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives panel police-like powers.
Baghdad action triggers rally in traded debt
(April 8, 2003) The prospect of a regime change in Baghdad that could pave the way for debt restructuring talks between a new government and the country’s long-suffering creditors, has triggered a rally in Iraq’s traded debt.
The future of Iraq
(April 7, 2003) A liberated Baghdad shouldn’t have to pay Saddam’s French debts.
Belizean macaws and tapirs threatened by dam project
(April 6, 2003) Belize court rules
Canadian power giant Fortis Inc. can build a dam in Belize’s upper
Macal River. The Belize Alliance of Conservation Non-Governmental
Organisations (Bacongo) to appeal.
Gambling On Iraq’s reconstruction
(April 4, 2003) Every vanquished Iraqi Republican Guard division is a hopeful sign for investors who have bought up Iraqi debt.
What will be the model for peace in postwar Iraq
(April 3, 2003) Will the consequences resemble the tragedy of Germany after World War I or the success of Germany after World War II?
Iraqi debt: The cold calculation of war
(April 3, 2003) Already, traders say, the secondary-market price of two big Iraqi loans has doubled, to around 19 cents on the dollar.
Yangtze officials brace for shipping accidents
Officials are putting an emergency rescue plan in place to respond to shipping accidents they expect will occur on the Yangtze after the Three Gorges reservoir begins to fill on June 1, China News Service (Zhongguo xinwen she) reports.
Letter to editor – Re: Chalillo dam forum
Belize Times reporter Norris Hall accused Belize Zoo Director Sharon Matola of saying that Belizeans "are not capable of reaching the ‘right’ conclusion on the building of the Chalillo dam on the Macal River."
Letter to editor – Re: Chalillo dam forum
(April 2, 2003) Belize Times reporter
Norris Hall accused Belize Zoo Director Sharon Matola of saying that
Belizeans are not capable of reaching the ‘right’ conclusion on the
building of the Chalillo dam on the Macal River.
Press briefing by Ari Fleischer
(April 2, 2003) A reporter questioning Ari Fleischer about the Iraq situation, asked: "Does the President have a feeling on what should be done with Iraq’s debt?
Analysis: Russia-U.S. ties strained by war
(April 2, 2003) Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is quoted to the thorny issue of Iraq’s $7.5 billion debt to Russia, admitting for the first time that "Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never repay (Iraq’s) debts to us."
Vietnam starts resettlement to make way for massive Son La dam
(April 1, 2003) In Vietnam’s mountainous northwest, the Son La People’s Committee has moved the first 52 people of a total of 91,000 that will be forcibly
evicted to make way for the massive Son La dam.
‘An imbalance of power’
(March 31, 2003) It’s Q and A time for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Maclean’s magazine sits down with the high-profile environmental crusader to talk about war, profits, and Fortis Inc’s proposal to build a hydro dam in Belize’s Upper Macal River Valley.
A clean slate for Iraq
(March 31, 2003) A recent New Yorker article endorsed Probe International’s position on Iraq’s odious debts, articulated in a National Post opinion piece on Feb. 12, 2003, by Larry Solomon and Probe International’s Pat Adams.
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