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Beijing, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) China declared today to be ready to work with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to establish, before the end of 2014, the common forum approved at the recent summit of the…

By Ranjit Devraj for IPS, Inter Press Service NEW DELHI, Feb 1 2014 (IPS) – Activists opposed to India’s plans to massively increase civilian nuclear power production are aghast that a plan for an Indo-Japanese nuclear cooperation deal is gaining pace even while…

Technology and social relationships: self-destructive weapon under guise of an approach to an affluent life?  We are living in an era where technology is booming and at possibly its highest level. In Bangladesh, particularly in the capital Dhaka, we can…

Main highlighted stories in the electronic and print media this past week were about violence and strategies to deal with the violence, except one underlined story in which Saudi ruling elites offer an old style economic deal, a barter system.…

With his second term in office, Prime Minister Abe Shinzo of Japan and members of his administration have outlined a vision for Japan’s foreign and security policy based on ‘pro-active pacifism’. In his address to the UN General Assembly in…

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is encouraging all Pacific Island nations to attend the Second Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, to be held in Mexico next month, and use this opportunity to share their…

Tokyo, 31st January 2014: Local governments across Japan are seeking to supply their regions with 100% renewable energy, three years after the major earthquake which resulted in a nuclear disaster. At the Community Power Conference in Fukushima, the Founding Partners…

Report: Asia-Pacific Youth Forum- 2013, Nepal – invoking voice of youth on post-2015 development agenda and mountain issues. By Arup Barua While the global population dynamics depicts that the youths constitute more than half of world population, very few international…

Depending fully on advertisement revenues, as the monetary contributions from millions of viewers never go to the ‘free to air’ news channels, one always ponder on how these media outlets can pursue ethical and impartial journalism. In this regard the…

This week was full of violent news. It seems civil war, tit for tat and violence against violence is the style! Security personnel have decided to curb militants with iron fists and repercussions soon appear. Several newspapers and news agencies…