Full Coverage: International Cooperation

31.01.2007 George W. Bush proposes to deal with climate change by means of smoke and mirrors. So what's new? Only that it is no longer just a metaphor. After six years of obfuscation and denial, the United States now insists that we find ways to block some of the sunlight reaching the earth. This means launching either mirrors or clouds of small particles into the atmosphere.

31.01.2007 The United States has asked Bangladesh to re-examine the possibility of restarting negotiations on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between the two countries.

29.01.2007 India, which amended its patent laws for TRIPS-compliance in 2005, introduced a clause to ensure that pharmaceuticals did not block the entry of low-cost generic drugs. A year ago this clause blocked Novartis’ patent application for its anti-cancer drug Gleevec. Now, in a major case that will have a profound effect on the affordability of essential medicines in India, Novartis is challenging this unique Indian provision.

29.01.2007 Developing countries led by Indonesia, India, and China issued a strong message to the World Economic Forum under way here that they will not allow attempts to dilute the agricultural negotiations in the Doha Round of trade talks by certain industrialised countries, especially the United States.

27.01.2007 The mammoth World Social Forum (WSF) wound to a close in the Kenyan capital after five days of dialogue, art, poetry, dance, drama and protests led by participants from around the globe who believe "another world is possible" -- the slogan of the global civil society movement.

25.01.2007 Five people have died and a curfew has been imposed in a district in Nepal's plains region after a clash between Maoists and activists for regional autonomy left a student dead.

24.01.2007 The International Organization for Migration started the Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals –TRQN Project, aimed to contribute to reconstruction and development efforts in Afghanistan, B&H, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

23.01.2007 World renowned economist and director of the United Nations (UN) Millennium Project, Jeffrey Sachs, is a harbinger of good news. During his visit to Nairobi, capital of Kenya, in mid-January he emphasised that it was still possible to meet the MDGs before 2015.

23.01.2007 Indian public sector majors BSNL and MTNL have promised to deliver a New Year gift to those subscribing to their internet services. Bandwidth on entry level ADSL broadband connections provided through telephone lines are to be raised from 256 kbps to 2 Mbps at no extra cost to the customer.

22.01.2007 A different approach to politics, with mechanisms for society to define the kind of country it wants to build through the exercise of direct democracy, is the common purpose driving the social movements participating in the "Mutirao for a New Brazil."

22.01.2007 We were told to come for this celebration because it is a celebration to end poverty," Edward Njeru, driver of a tuktuk (a three-wheel vehicle used as a taxi in urban areas), said about the World Social Forum (WSF).

19.01.2007 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced an aid of £200 million for the state-run Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan for universal elementary education.India's objective, which is that every single child has education, and the determination to achieve that by 2010, which is the next three years.

16.01.2007 The Legislative Parliament unanimously ratified the Interim Constitution, 2007 of Nepal tonight. Earlier in the day the House of Representatives (HoR) unanimously promulgated the draft of the Interim Constitution. All 185 Members of the Parliament (MPs), who were present at the last session of the HoR, voted for the Interim Constitution.

16.01.2007 Heavy rains and accompanying floods and landslides have rendered more than 30,500 people homeless, Officials said. Of them still more than 6,000 are sheltered in temporary camps in Nuwaraeliya, Hambantota, Kandy and Ampara districts, they said

15.01.2007 A year after the first Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) showed a thumbs down to the claims of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’s claims, there seems to be some improvement now.

12.01.2007 Defending human rights, democracy and diversity are its strongest point, but its "main defect" is lack of public visibility. That is how most participants viewed last year's World Social Forum (WSF), held in Caracas and Bamako, according to a survey.

12.01.2007 The World Bank approved a US$154 million credit to the Indian state of Punjab designed to increase access of the state's rural communities to improved and sustainable water supply and sanitation services.

11.01.2007 A new study finds that trade between India and Bangladesh would do better if
there were broad-based liberalization, rather than a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).A new World Bank report entitled, “India-Bangladesh Trade, Trade Policies and Potential Free Trade Agreement” seeks to explore the implications of a bilateral free trade agreement.

10.01.2007 Following dwindling profits that were less than the projected results the Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company MIFCO has decided not to renew contracts of 100 expatriate workers in the Fisheries Complex in Lhaviyani atoll Felivaru

10.01.2007 More than two years after the tsunami devastated countries around the Indian Ocean, reconstruction efforts in India are progressing well, according to a new report published jointly by ADB, the UN, and World Bank.