International
Myanmar: What Myanmar Could Learn from Singapore about Urban Water Management
Nov 21, 2016
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Aye Sapay Phyu, Myanmar Times
Here is a vision of Yangon’s future. Its 17 reservoirs, fed by 8000 kilometres (5000 miles) of drains, rivers and canals, provide ample fresh water…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Two Kirkuk Oil Fields to be Fenced Following Attacks by ISIS
Nov 21, 2016
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Rudaw
The Avana and Bai Hassan oilfields in Kirkuk province are to be fenced in the coming months in a step to upgrade security, following recent…
Colombia: Colombian Campesino Land Defender Assassinated
Nov 19, 2016
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teleSUR
Erley Monroy Fierro, director of Ascal-G, one of the most important campesino associations in the eastern amazonian region, was assassinated on Friday. Since discovering that…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraq's Exports from Kirkuk Fields Drop on Power Outages - Official
Nov 19, 2016
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Reuters
Iraq's exports from the Kirkuk oil field through an export pipeline to Turkey have dropped because of power outages, an official at state-run North Oil…
Myanmar: Chinese Land Grabs Concern Kachin Villagers
Nov 18, 2016
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Eleven
The residents of Kachin State are worried by Chinese entrepreneurs’ massive land acquisition, sources say. The Chinese have acquired thousands of acres of vacant land,…
Colombia: OAS Says Armed Groups Occupying Land Abandoned by FARC
Nov 18, 2016
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Julián Villabona Galarza, PanAm Post
Roberto Menéndez, head of the OAS Support Mission to the peace process in Colombia, sounded the alarm in an interview given to the Colombian newspaper…
Iraq: Iraq's Oil Contracts Make Joining OPEC Output Cut More Painful
Nov 18, 2016
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Ahmad Ghaddar and Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters
Iraq would have to compensate international oil companies for limits placed on their production, according to industry sources and documents seen by Reuters, further reducing…
Afghanistan: USAID Expands Support for Afghan Agricultural Exports by $16 Million
Nov 18, 2016
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Khaama Press
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a three-year extension to its 2010-2016 Commercial Horticulture and Agricultural Marketing Program (CHAMP) to widen its…
China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Satellite Images Reveal the Island Runway That is Vietnam's Latest Move in its Escalating Row with Beijing over Influence in the South China Sea
Nov 18, 2016
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Thomas Burrows, Daily Mail.
Vietnam has extended its runway on an island in the South China Sea also claimed by Beijing in a move that will anger the regional…
Myanmar: Drugs, Money and Wildlife in Myanmar's Most Secret State
Nov 17, 2016
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BBC
The remote Wa region of Shan state in Myanmar's east is a place few outsiders have seen. The people who live in this unofficial, effectively…
Iraq: Toxic Pollutants Choke Iraqi Children Caught in Islamic State Retreat
Nov 17, 2016
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Cathy Otten, Thomson Reuters Foundation
A month into their battle with Iraqi forces for control of the city of Mosul, the jihadists are leaving behind not just physical devastation but…
Myanmar: Cardinal: Time to Reverse Myanmar’s Decline, Keep Resource Wealth
Nov 17, 2016
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Catholic News Service
Yangon Cardinal Charles Bo said it was time to “reverse the trend” of a 60-year decline in Myanmar, designated the “least-developed country” by the World…
Sudan/South Sudan: Abyei Solution Elusive as UN Extends Peacekeepers' Mandate
Nov 17, 2016
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Jill Craig, Voice of America
The U.N. Security Council voted this week to extend the mandate of the peacekeeping force in the disputed oil-rich Abyei area between South Sudan and…
DRC: Controversial Deal Between DRC Mining Firm & Foreign Investor Raises Concerns
Nov 17, 2016
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Caroline Theuri, Face2Face Africa
A state mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sold the royalty rights of a lucrative copper mining project to a company owned by…
Afghanistan: Why Does Afghanistan Grow So Much Opium?
Nov 16, 2016
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Patricia Nilsson, Economy
Colombia: Illegal Gold Mining in Colombia is Destroying the Rainforest
Nov 16, 2016
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Bram Ebus, Newsweek
Colombia’s 52-year-old civil war has devastated the country’s Pacific coast, so close to 80 percent of the people who voted in the recent referendum supported…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Several Oil Wells Still on Fire Near Mosul, Affecting Health and Environment
Nov 16, 2016
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Rudaw
Almost three months after the retreating Islamic State set oil wells ablaze in Qayyara, 60 km south of Mosul, more than a dozen oil wells…
Bolivia: Bolivia's Water Warriors, Reignited
Nov 16, 2016
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Nasya Razavi
“They’re charging for air,” laments a Cochabamba resident. It is July 2016, and a serious drought has affected Cochabamba and its surrounding municipalities. After the…
Myanmar: Farmers Decry 'Landgrabbing' in Mindanao
Nov 16, 2016
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Angelo Caballero, ABS-CBN News
Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.…
Syria: Poor Rains, Supply Issues Exacerbating Food Security Woes in War-Torn Syria, UN Warns
Nov 16, 2016
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News Tribe
Reeling under the effects of a seemingly unending conflict, Syrian farmers may have “no other option” but to abandon food production, with grave consequences on…
Afghanistan:Climate Change Fuels Insurgency in Afghanistan
Nov 15, 2016
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Agence France-Presse
The mountainous land-locked country was classed in 2012 as among the most vulnerable to climate change, a worldwide problem that is the subject of a…
Sudan/South Sudan: Security Council Extends Mandate of Interim Security Force for Abyei, Recognizing Situation as Serious Threat to International Peace
Nov 15, 2016
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United Nations
Recognizing that the situation along the Sudan-South Sudan border remained a serious threat to international peace and security, the Security Council decided this afternoon to…
Conflict Minerals: New Initiative Aims to Advance Responsible Sourcing of Raw Materials in Technology Supply Chains
Nov 15, 2016
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Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) today announced the launch of the Responsible Raw Materials Initiative (RRMI) to address…
Liberia: Wasted Wealth: Liberia and the Negative Impact of Logging
Nov 15, 2016
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Globe Afrique
Industrial or commercial logging poses the gravest threat to the Liberian rainforest; the largest remaining forest blocks in the Upper Guinea Forest region. Although other…
Myanmar: Sweden Sets Legal Precedent with Prosecution of Myanmar Teak Trader
Nov 15, 2016
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Mike Gaworecki, Mongabay
A Swedish court upheld a ruling today that finds an importer of teak from Myanmar to be in violation of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR)…
Satellite Images Map Deforestation
Nov 14, 2016
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Caitlin Bird, Boston University
Satellite images of forests in New England—and across the world—are allowing experts to observe how they are changing over time, and in doing so, to…
Myanmar: Crops, Homes, Roads Destroyed in Tatkon Flooding after Dam Overflows
Nov 14, 2016
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Pyae Thet Phyo, Myanmar Times
Thousands of acres of farmland in Nay Pyi Taw’s Tatkon township were destroyed after water flooded over the Nan Won dam on November 11, according…
Liberia: Ellen Approves Land and Authority Act
Nov 14, 2016
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Daily Observer
At long last, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has approved and signed into law, the much talked about Liberia Land Authority Act, which was submitted by…
Kuwait: Photos of the Gulf War Fires that Turned Kuwait's Oil Fields into Hell
Nov 13, 2016
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Sebastião Salgado, VICE
Oil was both the beginning and the end of the story of the Iraqi invasion. Baghdad insisted that it had an historical claim to the…
Rwanda: Government Approves Nearly 50 Mining, Exploration Licenses
Nov 12, 2016
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KT Press
Rwanda on Friday licensed up to 50 mining companies – as independent international studies show the country has more mineral wealth than previously known. A…