Full Coverage: International Cooperation

29.11.2006 Trade between India and Pakistan can increase to a phenomenal level of 6.6 billion dollars if barriers are removed and the neighbouring country implements the South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement, an ICRIER report has said.

29.11.2006 The government will have to more than double its budget allocation for higher education during the 11th Five-Year Plan if it accepts the recommendations of academic bodies that are working out a "proper" budget allocation for higher education.

29.11.2006 Leaders from Government, the private sector, science and technology, media, entertainment and sports from around the world will gather at the United Nations to convey the message that the global community is one family with common values.

28.11.2006 The SEE Youth Network annual assembly, held earlier this month in Montenegro, decided, by unanimous decision, to accept the Croatian Youth Network for associate membership. CYN may become full member of SEEYN in a year’s time, if it proves, through its activities and engagement, itself worthy of it.

28.11.2006 India’s economic performance in the past two decades has been remarkable, but closer subregional integration would help the country and its neighbors to achieve their full economic potential, a senior ADB official told a press briefing.

28.11.2006 The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has urged governments to take a new approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs) to reflect the needs, customs and views of indigenous communities in developing nations.

28.11.2006 Today, civil society is indeed active and vibrant but that is largely on account of individual drive and concern. We talk of public-private partnerships to build roads and highways, establish power stations and ports. Why not public-civil society alliances in areas of social infrastructure? Ms. Gandhi said at the World Economic Forum meet.

25.11.2006 It has been almost 13 years since President Bill Clinton played the saxophone given to him by then President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel, at the stage of the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague. The two presidents shared the stage once again last Wednesday, this time at the Alfred Lerner Hall of Columbia University in New York, where they had an hour long public discussion titled Challenges of New Democracies.

23.11.2006 The health ministry is attempting to regulate and standardise the nature of healthcare being provided to Indian citizens by introducing a new law -- the Clinical Establishment Act -- to register all healthcare infrastructure within the next two years.

23.11.2006 Vigorous expansion of trade between developing countries has created "a new geography of global trade," but communications have lagged behind this and other processes that have increased the gravitas of the South, participants agreed at a seminar in Brazil.

23.11.2006 In just two months time the World Social Forum (WSF) will get underway in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, marking the first instance in which Africa is acting as sole host of the event.

22.11.2006 Due to unrelenting pressure by the developed countries, the Doha negotiations have veered from their proclaimed development orientation towards a “market access” direction in which developing countries are pressurised to open up their agricultural, industrial and services sectors.

22.11.2006 Nepal has long played host to all out to climb Mt. Everest. In July 1951, during his visit as Prime Minister of free India to Kathmandu, Nehru affectionately hailed Nepal as the "daughter of the Himalayas".

20.11.2006 As per a project financed by the Austrian Development Agency – ADA, the Economic Initiative for Kosova - ECIKS will represent the Investment Promotion Agency of Kosovo - IPAK in German Speaking Countries. The project is to be implemented by ECIKS and supported by Kosovar Ministry for Trade and Industry.

20.11.2006 President Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam presented Indira Gandhi Peace Prize to Afghanistan President Mr. Hamid Karzai at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The award is given for his role in peace, disarmament and development by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.

16.11.2006 The Second International Conference e-Society.mk started yesterday, November 15, in Skopje. The conference, which will close on Friday, November 17, 2006, gathers Macedonian and international ICT experts, to facilitate exchange of experiences and create policies based on the latest information related to information society.

16.11.2006 Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. conference on climate change on that it's clear it would cost far less to cut greenhouse-gas emissions now rather than to deal with the consequences later.

16.11.2006 Dominica is getting its first Intensive Care Unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital compliments of the Fidel Castro Administration. It comes at the same time that Cuba has provided scholarships to 85 Vincentians to pursue their BSc in nursing.

14.11.2006 Every 30 minutes an Afghan woman and six Indian women die in childbirth, yet annually India welcomes 150,000 "medical tourists" who fly in for cheaper treatment than they can receive at home in the 'developed' world.

13.11.2006 Last Wednesday, November 8, the European Commission released the first Progress Report for Macedonia in its preparations for EU membership since the country was granted the status of candidate country. This is the first report on progress made by this country in preparing for EU membership. The period covered by this report is 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006.