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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
PDF now ISO standard The International Organization for Standardization has approved the PDF as a standard format for electronic documents. ISO has christened Version 1.7 of PDF, the current working version, ISO 32000-1. “As an ISO standard, we can ensure that this useful and widely popular format is easily available to all interested stakeholders,” said ISO Secretary-General [...]
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
IPPMedia.com ( Tanzania ) : A University of Dar es Salaam don, Prof. Pius Yanda, has suggested the adoption of an integrated approach to scale down the looming impact of climate change in the country. Prof. Yanda, who was a co-recipient of the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize last year and was one of the authors of the Inter-Government Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) report, cautioned that climate change...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
MYSORE: A team of officials from the World Bank will be visiting Mysore on July 9 and 10 in connection with the on-going Indo-U.S. Engineering Faculty Leadership programme on Infosys campus here. According to a press release, the ...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
An additional 50 million people across the world face hunger as a result of soaring food prices, the United Nations has said.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
More than a month before any gold medals will be handed out, China has already achieved one of its biggest Olympic triumphs: a victory over the organizers of an attempted boycott.
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Guyana's President Bharat Jagdeo has urged the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to craft a strategy to get the issue of debt relief for the region's countries on the agenda of the Group of Eight (G8) countries.
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Registan.net (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Last week, our friends at neweurasia.net posted a letter from U.S. Congressmen Darrel Issa and Charlie Melancon in which they nominated Nursultan Nazarbayev for the Nobel Peace Prize. In a follow up story, Joshua Kucera quite rightly noted the authoritarian’s problematic relationship with civil liberties and press freedom. In the story, however, one of Issa’s [...]
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Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
NEW YORK. - Several New York-based international organizations yesterday picketed in front of the Dominican consulate, to protest the alleged mistreatment of Haitian immigrants who live and work in the Dominican Republic, newspaper Diario Libre says.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Five other member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) pledged on Friday to actively assist China in the security work for the upcoming Olympic Games. Security departments of the six SCO members -- China, Russia ...
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Ewan Watt (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
HAVING READ this story , it's pretty clear that we should never be allowed to join NATO. Georgian forces have shelled towns in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, killing three people, separatist officials say. A full mobilisation of forces has been declared, a spokesman for South Ossetia's breakaway government said. Georgian authorities blamed the clash on separatist forces, saying they had attacked...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Source: Reuters (For more G8 summit stories click on [G7/G8] July 4 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations meet in Japan on July 7-9 amid concerns about spiralling food costs around the globe ...
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Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
ISLAMABAD :Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Dr Shamshad Akthar on Thursday asked the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) to provide loans on subsidised rates in rural areas as strengthening the micro-finance industry was badly needed in the country. “The country is facing several challenges on economic front due to surge in oil [...]
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country adults and children alike brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights advocates and international organizations.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country — adults and children alike — brushing aside accusations of racism by human-rights advocates and international organizations.
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Critical Montages (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
OPEC Warns against Iran War by Rüdiger Göbel Oil prices rise and rise. New record on Thursday: a barrel (159 liters) of oil costs more than US$145 for the first time. In the event of an attack on Iran , prices could really explode. Yesterday, the Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Abdallah Salem El-Badri , warned. "It would be difficult to replace 4.2...
