Mar
31
More about soaring food prices…
March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Rachael
Average price for one dozen of U.S. Grade A eggs in 2008 Q1 was up 55% compared to the prior quarter, beating the 30-year high. According to the local trade industry, wholesale import price of eggs from the U.S. jumps from HK$200 for 300 Grade A eggs in the same period last year, to [...]
Mar
31
The situation in Pakistan: far from poppy free
March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet
Many Afghanistan refugees refused to leave Pakistan and return to their home county, so does the opium that are growing near the border and the trafficking of drugs.
Opium production in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, particularly near the Pakistan border, according to the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2008 released by the U.S. [...]
Mar
31
Zimbabwe’s contested election results
March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments
By Meryam
Defying the ban on election results announcements, Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has reportedly heralded their victory in Saturday’s presidential elections. According to independent monitoring groups, returns at two-thirds of the polling stations gave MDC’s candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai 55% of the votes, while incumbent president Robert Mugabe had 36%.
More than [...]
Mar
31
Adapting to Climate Change remains a Challenge to the Ailing Agricultural Sector in Developing Countries
March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
By Eva Chang (7)
Reports on the impact of climate change to the agricultural sector in different regions varied but point to the long-term serious problems of decreased agricultural production with implications to food supply and hunger.
In Finland, World Resource Institute reported that the warmer winter resulting to a shorter winter season could boost the country’s [...]
Mar
30
By Violet
Afghanistan is only part of the drug traffic link, although the most important as the origin of the raw opium. However, not only the poor people in Afghanistan are the victim of the cheap raw opium, Iran and Pakistan are also falling along being the neighbors of the world’s largest opium producer.
Mohammad Yusuf, a [...]
Mar
27
Why China fails to tame Tibet with GDP
March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Emily Tsang
Tibet’s GDP growth rate stay above 12% for the past seven years, thanks to the bringing in of new infrastructure and publicized tourism under the People’s Republic. For their material well-being, Tibetan is of benefit to be a part of China. However, the recent “free Tibet” riots in Lhasa has left the central government, the biggest believer in “good economy leads to stability”, clueless [...]
Mar
26
Beijing-Tibet Train from Heaven and Hell
March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
by Carol Zhou Yan (7)
China on Wednesday allowed the first group of foreign journalists into the regional capital Lhasa to visit since the violence.
It was unclear how much freedom to report the small group of foreign journalists. The visit comes amid rising international pressure over China’s crackdown in Tibet less than five months ahead of [...]
Mar
25
The aftermath of tibet uprising
March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Cindy Ru
Since March 14, the protests and riots that broke out in Tibet, and later to nearby provinces in China have attracted international attention and responses. Now more than 10 days later-as Xinhua claimed situation in Lhasa is returning to normal- many questions and topics are “pushed” onto the table and are generating heated [...]
Mar
25
Nuns’ Initiatives to Help Trafficked Sex workers
March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Wanching (Week 7)
Women religious and prostitutes have long been considered to be standing at the two extreme ends of the women spectrum. In recent years, however, they have been increasingly bonded together by the former’s Samaritan mission to help the victims of human trafficking, and the latter’s desperation to seek help to end their [...]
Mar
23
Bloodshed ahead of mutiny showdown on African island paradise
March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments
By Penny (7)
More troops from the Africa Union arrived on the Comoros island of Moheli on Good Friday joining several hundred other troops from Tanzania, Senegal and Sudan for a military offensive to retake the rebel held Comoran island of Anjouan.
The Comoros is an impoverished three-island Indian Ocean archipelago comprising of Grande Comore, Moheli and Anjouan, located [...]
