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ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Going Up in the World
- Inter Press Service
Brazil's economic achievements are being enthusiastically recognised abroad as never before. 'Brazil takes off' was the Nov. 12 cover title of the British weekly The Economist.
SRI LANKA: A Nation Struggles to Forget a Tragedy
- Inter Press Service
Waves hitting a train and carriages half submerged in water. Scores of men, women and children leaping above the water, hands outstretched, bodies strewn all over.
JAPAN: Solar Trend Catches Fire among Households
- Inter Press Service
The global community may have been dismayed by the outcome of the recently concluded climate change talks in Copenhagen, but Mami Naito, 42, is not about to put off dealing with this global phenomenon in her own small way. 'We very much like the idea of joining the efforts to prevent global warming,' says the mother of two.
URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
- Inter Press Service
Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest of the dwellings in this poor suburb on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital of this small South American country.
AGRICULTURE: Cattle 'Black Death' Banished to History
- Inter Press Service
An animal 'black death' that has devastated livestock around the world for thousands of years, causing famine and untold human misery, is about to be permanently consigned to the history books.
DEVELOPMENT: Tsunami Brings Sea Change in Coastal Lives
- Inter Press Service
Tragic as it was, the Asian tsunami wrought a sea change in the lives of survivors in the sleepy coastal hamlets of southern Tamil Nadu state, where some 8,000 people are known to have died.
SRI LANKA: Five Years after Tsunami, Many Still without Shelter
- Inter Press Service
'We have been here for almost five years. So many promises have been made, but very few have been kept,' complains Mohideen Nafia, 22, one of the survivors of the 2004 Asian tsunami still living in a temporary facility in the coastal town of Kalmunai, located 300 kilometres east of the capital, Colombo.
BANGLADESH: Food Security in Great Peril from Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Unless the world comes to its aid, Bangladesh says the vulnerability of its agriculture sector to climate change could spell severe consequences for its millions of people, who stand to lose their main source of livelihood.
SOUTH ASIA: Glacial Data Crucial to Combating Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
People living in the Himalayan region are increasingly confronted by rising temperatures and glaciers melting at an unprecedented rate, threatening their very survival. This much the world already knows.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Zenawi Stands Alone In Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says Africa must compromise and be flexible towards other countries, if the U.N. Climate Conference ending on Dec. 18, is to reach an agreement.
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