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Articles 26521 through 26620 of 31829:
- Research Shows Concerns About Nz Economy (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Around a third of all New Zealanders thought the economy had improved over the last six months, but the outlook is not so positive, with 35 per cent saying they felt the economy would deteriorate in the coming year, compared to 28 per cent of respondents
- Bigger The City, The Bigger The Disaster (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
For the first time in human history, more people will soon live in cities than do not. Urbanisation is intensifying as greater numbers of people, especially in Asia, leave the countryside in search of jobs, better living standards and wider opportunities.
- Britain Willing To Give Up Eu Rebate (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 22, 2005)
The majority of the EU member countries consider the British rebate an anomaly, something that has not changed for the past 21 years.
- Bush And Saudi Prince Focus On Long-Range Oil Plan (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Texas - President Bush has pressed Saudi Arabia to take steps to relieve record-high oil prices, but the world's largest exporter insisted global supplies were adequate and offered a long-term plan to increase production.
- Stop The World So The West Can Get Off (New Zealand Herald, Jason Nisse, Jun 22, 2005)
Are the traditional Western capitalist economies, which felt so comfortable in their success only a few years ago,
- First Un Peacekeepers Arrive In Sudan (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
EL-OBEID, Sudan - The first deployment of a huge UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan began on Wednesday with 12 Nepalese soldiers and equipment arriving in clouds of dust on a cool morning in the west of the country.
- Pyongyang Tests Missile On Eve Of Un Nuclear Talks (New Zealand Herald, Rupert Cornwell, Jun 22, 2005)
Talks on curbing nuclear proliferation which open today in New York seem doomed to failure,
- A Woman With A Will Of Steel (Deccan Herald, NICHOLAS D KRISTOF, Jun 22, 2005)
How many women defy tradition like Mukhtaran Bibi who was not cowed down?
- Us Busts Indian Internet Pill Store (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Philadelphia - An internet pharmacy based in India that sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs without prescriptions has been indicted by United States authorities.
- 500-Year-Old Guide To Good Health (Hindu, Lucy Atkins, Jun 22, 2005)
TheTacuinum Sanitatiscontains a mix of good sense and utter nonsense.
- Search For A Wto Leader (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
World headlines were dominated for days last week by the ritualistic and somewhat archaic process to select the next Pope to lead the 1.3 billion-strong Roman Catholic church.
- Close Ranks (Deccan Herald, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 22, 2005)
US support to some members of the G-4 for a UNSC seat should not split the group
- This History Can Be Tricky (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 22, 2005)
Advani can claim some credit for his courage in pointing out to Pakistanis what Jinnah really stood for
- Forget China, India Is Where It Is At (New Zealand Herald, Naomi Hamersley, Jun 21, 2005)
It’s hard to open a newspaper these days without reading some story or another about China and its economic locomotive.
- The View From Pakistan (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 21, 2005)
The controversy over opposition leader L.K. Advani’s praise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has had an adverse fallout in Pakistan.
- Eu: More Than A Squabble (Dawn, Peter Mandelson, Jun 21, 2005)
THE Brussels summit has highlighted the stark choice before Europe: “carry on as before” or, in the light of the French and Dutch no votes, “rethink fundamentally our priorities and policies”.
- Image And Reality (Dawn, Mahjabeen Islam, Jun 21, 2005)
The Pakistani preoccupation with image and impressions has always been somewhat mystifying.
- Elections For Bolivia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR the second time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the South American nation of Bolivia.
- Tsunami Leaves A World Of Ghosts' (Hindu, John Aglionby , Jun 21, 2005)
Before the December 26, 2004 tsunami I had never met anyone who had suffered so much that they had effectively lost their identity.
- How The Patriarchs Speak (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Jun 21, 2005)
Not surprisingly, dramatic dialogues in any episode of the long-running sangh parivar soap draw heavily from the Ramayana,
- The Euro's Legs Are Shaking (Japan Times, DAVID HOWELL, Jun 21, 2005)
Now that the proposed European Union Constitution has been well and truly sunk (although parts may be salvaged), could the same fate happen to the euro currency?
- Realising The Eu Vision (Deccan Herald, Peter Mandelson, Jun 21, 2005)
The EU faces a fundamental choice — either to go in for painful reforms, or suffer economic decline
- Central Asia — A Region Destabilised (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Jun 21, 2005)
Just what is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan? The "war on terror" is providing a timeless, seamless context for geopolitics
- Through The Prism Of Human Collectivity (Dawn, Huck Gutman, Jun 21, 2005)
William Wordsworth tells us that it is only in retrospect that one can sort out what has been most significant, most telling, in our experience.
- Make Them Pay For It (Telegraph, Tarunabh Khaitan, Jun 21, 2005)
Gujarat riot victims have claimed damages against the VHP and BJP. Tarunabh Khaitan explores the precedents and implications
- From One Grind To Another (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Jun 21, 2005)
For those who have failed to make it to the JEE merit lists, college is a stop-gap measure
- Can Doctors Do Business? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2005)
AS American medicine becomes more “managed” and doctors complain they can hardly make ends meet, young Indian physicians in the US are choosing entrepreneurship that gives them more freedom and could if successful, bring in greater profits.
- Eu Turmoil: Lessons For European Integration (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Jun 21, 2005)
With the stunning negative vote from the two founding members of the European Union against its constitution, there is a whole new look being taken at the remarkable post-World War II institution built and nurtured in Europe.
- Between Hope And Fear (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR some, globalisation has become a battle cry; for others, it is the banner of the future in the brave new world of the 21st century.
- Career Soldier Sees China For What It Is (Japan Times, TOM PLATE, Jun 21, 2005)
How many of you out there would just love to see Colin Powell back in the saddle as U.S. secretary of state? Or, better yet, as secretary of defense, giving the boot to his arch-nemesis -- the war-prone Donald Rumsfeld?
- Chronicle Of A Truly Historic Visit (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Jun 20, 2005)
What Nehru and the Soviet leaders said to each other retains some resonance even though the Soviet Union is no more and the international ambience has changed hugely.
- Militants Trawl Europe For Recruits (Hindu, Peter Beaumont, Jun 20, 2005)
Continent experiences sharp rise in the recruitment of suicide bombers
- A Matter Of Great Relief (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2005)
It might have been just a difference in outlook, temperament, and style that elsewhere would have made for a family quarrel and remained unnoticed
- Reforming The Joint Entrance Examination System (Hindu, S.S. Vasan , Jun 20, 2005)
The JEE is a time-tested mechanism that deserves full credit for keeping the IIT system well-oiled and excellent. But well-conceived reforms aimed at spreading quality and improving access are overdue.
- Drdo Looking For Global Technical Partner To Develop Kaveri Engine (Hindu, Ravi Sharma , Jun 20, 2005)
Decision seen as admission that Gas Turbine Research Establishment cannot develop the engine on its own
- Yoga For Livelihood (Hindu, ADITI CHATTERJEE, Jun 20, 2005)
Help the stressed-out people by teaching them yoga
- Furrowing The Black Gold Amidst Sand And Clay (Deccan Herald, Justin Blum, Jun 20, 2005)
Major companies faced with tougher prospects for developing big new oil fields around the world are sinking billions of dollars into projects to wring oil out of deposits of petroleum buried amid sand and clay.
- Reliance Rejig Through Ril Demerger: Anil (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Anil Ambani has proposed massive investment in group companies Reliance Energy and Reliance Capital.
- The Speaking Tree: The True Seeker Asks For Equity, Fairness & Justice (Times of India, ANIL D AMBANI, Jun 20, 2005)
I have often asked myself whether science can one day find a cure for greed and unfairness, irrationality and arrogance;
- System’S Transparency (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
The effectiveness of parliament and the provincial assemblies remains stymied because of the federal and provincial governments’ authoritarian attitude towards the opposition and their stubborn refusal to respect dissent.
- Counterview: Level Playing Field Doesn't Exist (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jun 20, 2005)
Should we celebrate because 70,000 dollar- millionaires were discovered in India at last count? Or because the number of millionaires worldwide bloated by 600,000 in 2004?
- Absence Of Land Reform (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a hierarchical system of mutual favours between political leaders and local influentials in Pakistan
- The Leader Article: Such A Rewarding Partnership (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 20, 2005)
On June 18, the warring Ambani siblings announced the settlement of their much-publicised dispute over the ownership and control of a vast industrial empire.
- Win Win Ties (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 20, 2005)
The United States has shown keenness to grow its trade with India to the levels that it has with China, which is to say a lot, as the India-US trade is less than one-tenth of the trade between the US and China.
- Iaf Plans To Procure Advanced Choppers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The new copters are likely to be used to ferry VVIPS to remote areas within the country. They would be equipped with advanced protection systems.
- Outsourcing Moves To Knowledge Arena (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
BPO business may soon be passe as the country is ready to become the leading destination for knowledge process outsourcing in areas of healthcare, pharma, biotech, writes Aditya Raj Das.
- America's Flexible Notion Of Sovereignty (Japan Times, DAVID WALL, Jun 20, 2005)
London -- On May 9, in an interview in Moscow on CNN U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said "the United States, of course, recognizes that North Korea is a sovereign state."
- Beach Safety (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
With the onset of summer, Karachi’s beaches are once again thronged by thousands of visitors at a time when the sea is particularly choppy because of the approach of the monsoon season.
- Candour On Immigration (Dawn, Robert J. Samuelson, Jun 20, 2005)
Immigration is crawling its way back onto the national agenda — and not just as a footnote to keeping terrorists out.
- The Mukhtaran Mai Fiasco (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Jun 20, 2005)
Whoever came up with the bright idea that stopping Mukhtaran Mai from proceeding to the US to attend a conference organized by an association of Pakistani-American professionals would help protect Pakistan’s international image should be taken to . . .
- Politics Of Partition (Tribune, K. Subramanyam, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a belated debate on the responsibility for the partition of India and the role played by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (Yahoo! News, Ari Berman, Jun 20, 2005)
Last April, with little media coverage, the House voted 272-162 to permanently repeal the estate tax, which by then had been re-christened the "death tax" by anti-tax conservatives.
- Whom Will The G-8 Debt Relief Plan Benefit? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 20, 2005)
THE finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries have done the politically correct thing by cancelling the $40-55 billion of debt owed by the world's poorest nations to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development
- Align With Democrats In Asia (Washington Post, Jackson Diehl, Jun 20, 2005)
Just a few months ago the United States seemed to have few choices in the strategically important Muslim countries of Central Asia. All were ruled by undemocratic regimes,
- Ssis Deserve A Better Deal (Hindu, A. Selvaraj , Jun 20, 2005)
The sector needs adequate political and appropriate bureaucratic support for competitive efficiency
- Decline In Quality Of Life (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Jun 20, 2005)
There are five national themes that are mauled in the national press on a regular basis — human rights, intolerance, education, corruption and the increasing militarization of civil society.
- Cooperation, Not Conflict (Dawn, Henry A. Kissinger, Jun 20, 2005)
THE relationship between the United States and China is beset by ambiguity. On the one hand, it represents perhaps the most consistent expression of a bipartisan, long-range American foreign policy.
- The Donors And Darfur (Telegraph, Editorial, Washington Post, Jun 20, 2005)
The United Nations is getting ready to appeal for more money for Darfur, the western Sudanese province that's been targeted with genocide. The reason is simple:
- Pills For The Poor (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, Jun 20, 2005)
Little by little, the world is coming around to two self-evidently good proposals to improve global health. But there's a third, equally great proposal to which nobody pays attention.
- Shirdi’S Salute To Bollywood (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Jun 20, 2005)
AS he emerges from the little mosque, 85-year-old Ghulam Habib Abdul Rehman Pathan seems an unlikely candidate to sing paeans to Bollywood.
- Eprlf Demands Halt To Killings In Sri Lanka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Government, LTTE must strive for a solution through talks
- Protecting The Tiger (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jun 20, 2005)
CAN the tiger be resurrected in Sariska? Theoretically, yes it can be! Sariska is an established tiger habitat.
- 'Development' Not For Tribes (Pioneer, Joseph Marianus Kujur , Jun 19, 2005)
Land is life for the tribal. Take his land and you have taken away his life. This old saying has proven to be true in the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Jharsuguda, Raygada and Mayurbhanj in the mineral-rich state of Orissa.
- Urban Decay: An Outcome Of Flawed Policies (Tribune, Jagmohan , Jun 19, 2005)
The ‘Dickensian’ blight and haze that hang over our cities today and the slums and squatters,
- Closed Window To The East (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Jun 19, 2005)
Lately, India has taken the lead; it has been vociferous in supporting a principle shared by most men of goodwill on this planet: The ideal of democracy.
- Energizing The Oic (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jun 19, 2005)
PakistaniI spokesmen have been urging the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to do more to energize the global Muslim community (1.2 billion persons). Let us see if it is well situated to perform such a role.
- Cold War Between Us And China? (Dawn, Martin Jacques, Jun 19, 2005)
EVER since 9/11, the US and China have been rubbing along nicely. The US needed China’s support in the war against terror and China is anxious to create the best conditions for its economic growth. But how long will this latest honeymoon last?
- In The Prison Of Guantanamo (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2005)
AT a session of the US Senate Judiciary Committee formed to look into the legal status of Guantanamo detainees, it was evident that there was concern among both Democrats and Republicans that the treatment of prisoners in the Cuba-based prison camp was su
- The Medicaid Explosion (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
Medicaid, The federal-state program that pays for health care for low-income Americans, has gotten less attention in recent years than the other giant entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare. But with costs up more than 60 percent in the last f
- Elections For Bolivia (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
FOR THE SECOND time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the poor South American nation of Bolivia. President Carlos Mesa, who tried to settle paralyzing political conflicts through a referendum and accords with Congress,
- Sethu Project: Madurai Venue For Foundation Laying Ceremony (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
Anti-Sethu project movement threatens to greet Prime Minister with black flags
- Anbumani Unfazed By Opposition, To Go Ahead With Smoking Ban (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 19, 2005)
"I will be happy if the sale of tobacco products is totally banned like in Bhutan"
- Tribute In Manipur To Police Firing Victims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
IMPHAL: Thousands of people in Manipur paid floral tribute on Saturday to 18 persons who were killed in police firing in 2001 during a month-long protest against the extension of the ceasefire with the NSCN(IM) outside the borders of Nagaland.
- Energy Plan That Terminates The Econom (Japan Times, DOUG BANDOW, Jun 19, 2005)
"We're all Keynesians now," declared U.S. President Richard M. Nixon when he surrendered his fiscal policies to liberal orthodoxy. California Gov.
- The High Cost Of Misgovernance (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jun 19, 2005)
THE president of Pakistan is busy in conducting war on terror and in finding a solution to the 58-year old Kashmir dispute which he says he could resolve in two weeks only if India and Kashmiris were to go along.
- Some Scars Of The Emergency (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2005)
SOME scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through. One ugly mark on the face of India is the emergency.
- Unending Health Disaster For Iraqi Kids (Japan Times, CESAR CHELALA, Jun 18, 2005)
New York -- More than two years after the Iraq war started, children continue to be its main victims as the health of the majority
- Us Motives In Iraq’S Invasion (Dawn, Tahir Tanveer, Jun 18, 2005)
WHAT were the motives behind the American invasion of Iraq in 2003? Was there a grand game plan of re-modelling and reforming the entire Middle East to suit Washington’s imperial design?
- Water Loss By Grain Exports (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Jun 18, 2005)
Other costs apart, it takes about 1,326 litres of water on the evapo-transipration basis,
- It’S All Nicely Blended Together (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
Three Hollywood blockbusters of the moment have a common ingredient:
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