House backs bill raising aid to farms
The U.S. Senate has easily approved a six year farm bill that would increase subsidies to farmers by $31 billion, overcoming arguments that it is too costly and threatens trade relations with key
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Hot topic getting hotter in Britain
Rising sea levels, droughts, heavy rainfall and floods will ravage the British isles by the end of the century as climate change speeds up much faster then expected, a government report said. The
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Who really pays to help farmers?
Of all the problems the plague the world's poor in the age of globalization, few are so widely condemned as the subsidies that rich countries provide their farmers. Poor nations suffer because their
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Asia-Pacific AIDS rising
The spread of AIDS and the virus that causes the disease is reaching epidemic proportions in parts of Asia and the Prcific, and urgent attention must be focused on the problem, a United Nations study
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Annan cites leaders' 'failures' as UN talks on children open
The three-day meeting, the first General Assembly session to be devoted to the world's youngest citizens, is intended to assess the plight of children over the last 12 years, when the United Nations
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AIDS imperils China economy, UN adviser says
China must address its growing but still largely hidden HIV/AIDS problem or risk derailing strong economic growth, a leading U.S. economist and adviser to the United Nations said. Jeffrey Sachs, a
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A scar on South America
Of Enron's many political maneuvers in Washington before its fall into bankruptcy, winning the promise of federal financing for a pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil through the Chiquitano Dry enduring
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HIV in African teachers is widespread, report says
The virus that causes AIDS is spreading so rapidly in parts of Africa that it is killing teachers faster than countries can train them, undermining an international effort to enroll all children in
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Southern Africa is starving
Two seasons of crops spoiled in South Africa by erratic weather-rain one year, drought the next. What is taking shape across southern Africa is the perfect famine, a disastrous collaboration between
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House supports Bush on nuclear waste dump
The House overwhelmingly affirmed the Bush administration's decision to dispose of nuclear waste beneath Yucca mountain in Nevada, after rejecting opponents' claims that there was too much