Mining paradise 2012: Codelco hopes to start exploring Junin in 2013
This last Thursday (July 26), the governments of Ecuador and Chile signed a bilateral agreement to strengthen their political, cultural and economic ties. In the economic sphere mining took center stage. I am reproducing the part on mining below, and as you can see, the government of Ecuador would like Codelco to start exploration in [...]
Prachanda Path – The joker has one more trick up his sleeve
Recently the Baburam Bhattrai’s led government announced that Nepal government would give facilities of car, security and pension to VIPs which has been condemned and highly ciritsed from all sectors. In midst of that recently prominent leader like Ram Chandra Poudel of Nepali Congress, Madhav Kumar Nepal of Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) Party and Jhalnath Khanal [...]
India: Confirm Policy Ending Mandatory HIV Tests
HIV/AIDS Hon. S.M. Krishna, External Affairs Minister, Ministry of External Affairs, India Dear Hon. Minister Krishna, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed by Human Rights Watch that they have shared their concern by writing a letter to you regarding ending the Mandatory HIV Tests. I do agree [...]
Protests Against Elections Heat Up with “National March Against the Imposition”
Mexicans hit the streets again on Sunday, in the third mass demonstration against the apparent president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, in the three weeks since the elections. After months of demonstrations, Mexico’s movement to reject the return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) shows no signs of fading away. The July 22 “National March Against the [...]
Corruption at its best
A week back, the world was shocked by the scam and corruption charges of Mohamed bin Hammam, Chief of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). His audit report showed embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars from the AFC official bank account where the name of All Nepal Football Association (ANFA )President Ganesh Thapa was also [...]
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