News headlines in July 2009, page 19
HEALTH-THAILAND: As H1N1 spreads, Thais Take Cover Behind Surgical Masks
- Inter Press Service
Pattadol Piboonsak was gripped with fear last week when he fell ill with a high fever, displaying the usual symptoms of influenza.
FILM: Graphically Condemning a 'Barbaric and Horrific Punishment'
- Inter Press Service
Director Cyrus Nowrasteh's latest feature film 'The Stoning of Soraya M.' begins with a car radio blaring the successes of Iran's 1979 Revolution.
ENVIRONMENT-MAURITIUS: Hold Your Fire
- Inter Press Service
Mauritius appears to have a happy problem with the 400,000 tons of waste it produces each year. The island’s only landfill is full and the government must decide whether to turn to incinerating waste - generating electricity in the process - to or compost it, to the benefit of farmers.
WORLD-TRADE: 'Make Doha Round About Development Again'
- Inter Press Service
The present global economic crisis and the need to reform the international financial architecture should encourage a return to the original focus on development in the international negotiations on agriculture, trade and development, also known as the Doha Round, according to two economists studying the issue.
MIDEAST: Malnutrition Begins to Bite
- Inter Press Service
'No one is buying meat these days,' says Yousef Al-Jerjowi, sitting next to his butcher shop devoid of customers.
ENERGY: Germany Gets Some Nuclear Jolts
- Inter Press Service
The faults at the nuclear plant at Kruemmel near Hamburg surfaced just three days after Chancellor Angela Merkel declared nuclear energy 'indispensable' to Germany.
ALBANIA: Short on Homework for Joining EU
- Inter Press Service
Membership of the EU will be the principal target of the re-elected government in Albania.
NEPAL: Crime Grows Amid Political Instability
- Inter Press Service
Khyati Shrestha, a 17-year-old high school student in Kathmandu, was abducted and brutally murdered last month. 17 days later, her body parts were found in the outskirts of the valley. The accused, Biren Pradhan, later chillingly revealed that she was killed within 24 hours of kidnapping.
ECONOMY: Accountability To Women Could Upset Business-As-Usual
- Inter Press Service
A public presentation of the 'Progress of the World's Women' report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Pretoria, South Africa this week, suggests that one of the most powerful constraints on realising women's rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals is a lack of accountability to women's needs.
CANADA: Mexicans Too Need Visas Now
- Inter Press Service
Jair Gutiérrez was lucky, because he was able to make a stopover in Canada on his way to Japan without being asked for a visa. But things have changed now for the thousands of Mexicans who pass through, visit or move to the North American country every year.