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INDIA: Old Road New Role
08 10 2008 GUWAHATI, Assam, Oct 8 (IPS) - Built during World War II as a strategic link between India and Burma, the Stilwell Road is now being resurrected as part of India’s ‘Look East’ policy of engaging its neighbours in South-east Asia.
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INDIA: Old Road New Role
08 10 2008 GUWAHATI, Assam, Oct 8 (IPS) - Built during World War II as a strategic link between India and Burma, the Stilwell Road is now being resurrected as part of India’s ‘Look East’ policy of engaging its neighbours in South-east Asia.
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TRADE: Little Scope For Europe-Asia FTAs
07 10 2008 BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (IPS) - Plans to conclude free trade agreements (FTAs) between the European Union and several Asian economies are unlikely to be realised in the near future, a senior Brussels official has conceded.
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DEVELOPMENT: IBSA - Where Elite Minorities Form the 'Political Majority'
06 10 2008 NEW DELHI, Oct 4 (IPS) - Top social scientists from India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), meeting here to set the backdrop for the mid-October third summit of the new bloc, are sobered by the thought that large sections of their populations remain excluded from the economic growth their governments boast of.
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DEVELOPMENT: IBSA - Where Minorities Form the 'Political Majority'
04 10 2008 NEW DELHI, Oct 4 (IPS) - Top social scientists from India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), meeting here to set the backdrop for the mid-October third summit of the new bloc, are sobered by the thought that large sections of their populations remain excluded from the economic growth their governments boast of.
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DEVELOPMENT: IBSA - Where Minorities Form the 'Political Majority'
04 10 2008 NEW DELHI, Oct 4 (IPS) - Top social scientists from India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), to set the backdrop for the mid-October third summit of the new bloc, are sobered by the thought that large sections of their populations remain excluded from the economic growth their governments boast of.
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INDIA/US: N-Deal Wins Congress Vote - Problems Remain
04 10 2008 NEW DELHI, Oct 4 (IPS) - While the United States-India civilian nuclear cooperation deal has cleared its final and toughest legislative hurdle, the U.S. Senate, and will soon be turned into law by President George W. Bush into law, New Delhi is not yet celebrating in a full-throated fashion.
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ENERGY-LATIN AMERICA: PDVSA’s Growing Presence
29 09 2008 CARACAS, Sep 29 (IPS) - Central America, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and islands in the eastern Caribbean are receiving more and more oil from Venezuela, while major refineries are planned in South America -- at Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, and at El Aromo, on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
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POLITICS: IBSA Banks on Trade, Tourism
26 09 2008 KOCHI, India, Sep 26 (IPS) - As the India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) grouping takes formal steps towards promoting tourism among the three countries, industry representatives say ‘real work’ needs to be done to pull together an initiative that must work across vast stretches of ocean.
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DEVELOPMENT: IBSA Summit - Will South-South Cooperation Regain Clout?
24 09 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 23 (IPS) - The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum will hold its third annual summit on Oct. 15 in New Delhi, India, the first such meeting after this trilateral body of countries of the developing South met with a serious setback at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations.
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AUSTRALIA: Wary of Asia Pacific's Modernising Militaries
23 09 2008 MELBOURNE, Sep 23 (IPS) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that Australia needs to prepare for "the increased militarisation" of the Asia-Pacific.
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INDIA/AUSTRALIA: Sticking to Uranium Export Ban - For Now
19 09 2008 MELBOURNE, Sep 19 (IPS) - The Rudd government has reiterated its refusal to sell uranium to countries which have not signed up to the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), such as India, despite supporting the decision by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to back the United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement.
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CUBA: Nearly Two Dozen Countries Have Sent Aid
19 09 2008 HAVANA, Sep 18 (IPS) - Accustomed for years to giving, rather than receiving, aid after natural disasters, the Cuban population is gratefully observing the near daily arrival of donations in the wake of the devastation wrought by hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which caused losses officially estimated at five billion dollars.
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CUBA: "Few Deaths Do not Mean Storm Damages Were not Massive"
17 09 2008 HAVANA , Sep 16 (IPS) - More than 2.5 million Cubans were evacuated by the civil defence system when hurricane Ike lashed the island this month. And although only seven people were killed, more than one million no longer have an intact home to return to.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Top Expert's Emissions Target Slammed
13 09 2008 MELBOURNE, Sep 11 (IPS) - The Rudd government’s hand-picked climate change advisor’s recommended targets for reducing Australia’s greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions have been widely denounced by environmentalists and leading scientists.
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CUBA: "Ike" Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Danger
09 09 2008 HAVANA, Sep 9 (IPS) - Even before the ravages caused by Hurricane Gustav in the western part of Cuba have been fully assessed, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the northeastern shore of the island on Sunday, swept westwards out to sea on Monday, and is showing signs of powering up before slamming Cuban territory again.
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LAOS: Questions Rise With Worst Floods in Decades
09 09 2008 VIENTIANE, Sep 9 (IPS) - When local people in Laos talk about floods, they always look back to 1966 -- the year the Mekong River burst its banks so fast that no one was prepared.
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INDIA/US: Nuclear Waiver - Blow to Non-Proliferation
08 09 2008 NEW DELHI, Sep 8 (IPS) - The special waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules is being seen as a massive setback to the cause of global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
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INDIA/US: Lawmaker's Disclosure May Torpedo Nuke Deal
04 09 2008 NEW DELHI, Sep 4 (IPS) - Chances of the United States-India nuclear deal being completed have greatly receded with the release by a key U.S. lawmaker of a so-far-secret Bush administration document which says Washington will not sell sensitive nuclear technologies to India and will terminate nuclear commerce with it if India conducts a test.
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NICARAGUA: Name and Identity for Thousands of Indigenous Children
03 09 2008 BILWI, Nicaragua, Sep 2 (IPS) - Some 250,000 indigenous children and adolescents who had no legal identity in Nicaragua are in the process of being registered -- an essential step towards achieving recognition of their basic human rights.
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POLITICS: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Split on Georgia
02 09 2008 BEIJING, Sep 2 (IPS) - Moscow’s decision to recognise the two separatist regions of Georgia as independent states has exposed the divergence of geopolitical interests within the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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NICARAGUA: Name and Identity for Thousands of Indigenous Children
02 09 2008 BILWI, Nicaragua, Sep 2 (IPS) - Some 250,000 indigenous children and adolescents who had no legal identity in Nicaragua are in the process of being registered -- an essential step towards achieving recognition of their basic human rights.
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POLITICS: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Split on Georgia
02 09 2008 BEIJING, Sep 2 (IPS) - Moscow’s decision to recognise the two separatist regions of Georgia as independent states has exposed the divergence of geopolitical interests within the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
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TRADE: Old Talks Never Die
02 09 2008 GENEVA, Sep 1 (IPS) - "History tells us that multilateral trade negotiations never die, and the current Doha Round is no exception," said economist Carlos Pérez del Castillo, Uruguay’s former permanent representative to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and chairman of the global body’s General Council in 2003 and 2004.
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INDIA/US: Nuclear Deal Headed for Fiasco
28 08 2008 NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (IPS) - As the tortuous negotiations for the United States-India nuclear deal enters its final stage, it becomes clear that India seriously underestimated the discomfort and opposition the agreement would arouse in many countries because of the special privileges granted to India, largely on New Delhi's terms.
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