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30.06.2007 Peter Rose, a Seattle-based corporate chief executive officer, took home $4.7 million last year. He thinks that’s quite enough. "There's only so much crap you can buy," he told his hometown newspaper. His colleagues in corporate America seem not to agree.
From: CorpWatch

30.06.2007 Politicians and clerics in Pakistan have not done themselves any favours in their rush to condemn the United Kingdom's recent honouring of Salman Rushdie, says Zubeida Mustafa.

30.06.2007 India’s water man and Magsaysay Award winner Rajinder Singh is busy rallying people on the banks of river Yamuna that flows through Agra -- the city of the Taj Mahal -- to stand up for their water rights by protecting river Yamuna from pollution and “from being handed over” to multinational corporations.

30.06.2007 In Brazil, environmental technocrats talk of saving the rainforest with satellite technology - but loggers, miners and farmers keep finding scams to evade the law, report Sue Branford and Jan Rocha.

30.06.2007 The stampede into agrofuels is causing far greater environmental and social damage than had been realised, with ecosystems being destroyed and hundreds of thousands of indigenous and peasant communities thrown off their land - and there is worse to come, says an international agriculture NGO.

29.06.2007 As international donors meet in Maputo to discuss Mozambique's development, Elísio Macamo uses the country as an example of how aid can undermine sovereignty - and why former President Joaquim Chissano - a man admired for his diplomatic skills, composure and good manners - got angry.

29.06.2007 Entire cities may eventually have to be moved as Europe tackles global warming, according to a new European Commission report that sets out options for EU action in adapting to climate change across the continent.

29.06.2007 The International Red Cross has made a rare public denunciation of Myanmar's continued violations of international humanitarian law against civilians and detainees. The armed forces' use of detainees as porters is singled out.

29.06.2007 The new UK government and its European partners should atone for their failure to break the U.S. monopoly on the World Bank presidency by ending the "gentlemen's agreement" that allows them to appoint the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, say a group of British NGOs.

29.06.2007 A major scale-up of global HIV prevention programmes could avert about 30 million infections expected to occur by 2015, a panel of experts claimed this week.

29.06.2007 UK development groups broadly welcomed the Cabinet changes ushered in by the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, as they outlined the areas in which they wanted action.

29.06.2007 Greenpeace has proved that faulty designs, inadequate insulating material and poor maintenance in prominent buildings in India - the Mumbai Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange, the American Centre in New Delhi and some iconic hotels - are resulting in excessive energy leakages. From: Greenpeace India

29.06.2007 The High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Anwarul Chowdhury, said that the UN debate on climate change will lose credibility if the concerns of these countries are sidelined because they are most vulnerable to climate change impacts.

28.06.2007 Africa will be badly affected by climate change because it lacks policies to adapt, Britain's envoy on climate change for the continent said in Zambia.
From CRI

28.06.2007 Journalist Robert Fisk put the question: How could Blair - "this vain, deceitful man, this proven liar, a trumped-up lawyer who has the blood of thousands of Arab men, women and children on his hands - get a job as Middle East envoy?" Jan Oberg gives an answer.

28.06.2007 Afghanistan’s fight against poverty could suffer if it rushes to join the World Trade Organization, an international aid agency warned today.
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28.06.2007 Europe has been urged to take collective responsibility for serious shortcomings in refugee policy "rather than stand by and watch people drown".

27.06.2007 Almost all rich countries got wealthy by protecting infant industries and limiting foreign investment. But these countries are now denying poor ones the same chance to grow by forcing free-trade rules on them before they are strong enough, says Ha-Joon Chang.
From Prospect

27.06.2007 Apple moves up but Nokia tops the fourth edition of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics.

27.06.2007 Humanity will have to undergo a "revolution in thinking" in order to deal with the doubling of urban populations in Africa and Asia by 2030, the United Nations Population Fund warns today.