(May 17, 1999) The world press is in a flap over Third World debt relief, one of the hot items on the agenda of the G7 leaders’ summit scheduled to take place in Cologne this weekend.
Marleau promises to launch probe of CIDA activity
(May 17, 1999) Canada’s federal minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said she knows nothing about the agency’s role in promoting CANDU nuclear reactors in Thailand.
Aid agency pushes nuclear sales
(May 16, 1999) CIDA program targets Thai teens in Candu drive.
Beaten in three court sessions
(May 15, 1999) This state electricity is being threatened to stop its business because of its failure to fulfill its promise to buy electricity from the power generating company.
Abhorrent siblings
(September 22, 1999) Violence in East Timor and economic disaster in Indonesia have a common parentage: the absence of the rule of law and the support of western banks and governments.
Tibet lobby upset at World Bank scheme
(May 13, 1999) Among the ravines and abysses of the nearly barren mountains of Eastern Qinghai, China, live 57,775 impoverished farmers who have won the development lottery.
Coal-fired power is obsolete
(May 12, 1999) DESPITE there being cheaper and less polluting alternatives, two massive coal-fired plants are being built in Prachuap Khiri Khan [Thailand], writes Grainne Ryder.
The debts of corruption
(May 10, 1999) A global movement is asking Western nations to forgive ‘odious’ debt extended to despotic regimes. The cause has merit, but opposition is building.
Mekong river body opens new headquarters
(May 4, 1999) The four-country Mekong River Commission (MRC) inaugurated its new headquarters on a bank of the Mekong river on Tuesday in the southern outskirts of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
IOU – Take the hit
(May 1, 1999) Banks and governments knew perfectly well what they were doing when they lent money to prop up despotic regimes. Now, says Joseph Hanlon, it’s their turn to suffer the consequences.
World Bank inaugurates office in Laos
(April 29, 1999) The World Bank inaugurated an office in impoverished Laos this week, saying it would help strengthen its efforts to ease the country’s economic troubles.
Controversial dam projects may lose Development Bank funding
(April 24, 1999) The Asian Development Bank is poised to stop funding controversial dam construction in Laos amid fears of poor viability and rampant illegal logging of some of the region’s last rainforests.
Unforgivable: South Africa’s aparthied debts
(April 24, 1999) Debt is the new slavery. It is heartless to expect democratic third-world governments to repay loans made years ago to their nasty dictatorial predecessors.
Changnoi: Not a picnic for Pak Mool refugees
(April 21, 1999) This project completed in 1994 has proved to be a social and environmental disaster. It is a monument to bad development thinking and bad government. It has enough moral potential to magnify the importance of this remote protest.
Free Nelson Mandela
(April 20, 1999) When Nelson Mandela walked from prison seven years ago, it marked the success of one of the biggest grassroots international campaigns. Working together, we freed Nelson Mandela.
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