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Listening to Grasshoppers
Published July 6, 2009, 1:47 am, Financial Times
India is the up-and-coming superpower that much of the world loves to love. But not, of course, everyone. Not environmentalists pushing for stronger climate change treaties. Not India’s smaller neighbours.
Indian Stocks Fall as Government Says Fiscal Deficit Will Widen
Published July 6, 2009, 1:44 am, Bloomberg
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Indian stocks fell the most in three months as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the fiscal deficit may rise to 6.8 percent of gross domestic product in the year ending March 31, the most since 1994. The rupee sank.
India’s Mukherjee Raises Spending on Roads, Ports, Aid to Poor
Published July 6, 2009, 1:13 am, Bloomberg
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee increased spending on roads, power and aid to the poor, setting the agenda for a government that in May won its biggest election victory in two decades.
Recession pushed 90 million into extreme poverty
Published July 5, 2009, 11:21 pm, Tiscali
By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - The global recession has pushed up to 90 million more people into extreme poverty, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a reduction in foreign aid could cause more hunger and disease.
Recession pushed 90 million into extreme poverty
Published July 5, 2009, 11:07 pm, Reuters via Yahoo! News
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said impoverished people have already suffered most from the economic crisis and urged rich countries not to cut their assistance budgets.
Malta and international press digest
Published July 5, 2009, 10:29 pm, Times of Malta
The Times says that a new case of swine flu in Gozo may be the first where the virus was transmitted locally rather than imported. The Malta Independent says the Budget will feature no new taxes if tourism reaches 2007 levels this summer, the Prime Minister said.
More support urged for APY homemaker centres
Published July 5, 2009, 9:33 pm, ABC via Yahoo!7 News
A Senate committee report has recommended the Federal Government support more homemaker centres on the APY Lands in South Australia's far north-west.
News CENTRAL/S. ASIA
Published July 5, 2009, 7:48 pm, Aljazeera
The latter stages of the war in Sri Lanka have been carefully choreographed and hidden from the outside world, with the voices of victims silenced through fear and insecurity.
G8 summit urged to combat hunger
Published July 5, 2009, 5:39 pm, Channel 4
Leaders of the world's richest nations meeting at this week's G8 summit in Italy must put their weight behind "a new global compact to end hunger" if millions of people in poorer countries are to be saved from malnutrition, a report has warned.
Millions hungry as warming shifts seasons - Oxfam
Published July 5, 2009, 5:16 pm, Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
The rainmakers were convinced the god was angry.
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