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“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
IN OTHER NEWS
By: World Politics Review, September 3, 2008
In this week's Rights & Wrongs: Advocacy groups press the IOC to include human rights among the criteria for selecting future Olympic host nations; a court in Argentina sentences two octogenarians for a murder during the country's 1976-1983 "dirty war"; high-profile cases put child marriage in the spotlight in Yemen; and controversy over a system to pay developing countries to halt deforestation pits environmentalists against human rights advocates.
13 Journalists killed in August, highest tally since the beginning of the year
By: Human Rights Tribune, September 1, 2008
The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has registered 13 journalists killed during the month of August. This is the highest tally of victims in the media profession from the beginning of the year and since October 2007.
BOOK REVIEW
The Chinavore's Dilemma
By: Mother Jones, October, 2008
For a while last year, it seemed the reports of tainted food, drugs, and toys flowing in from China would never cease. First came the pet food scare, in which a toxic additive killed thousands of animals. Summer brought vast recalls of lead-tainted Thomas trains and other name-brand toys, counterfeit Colgate containing antifreeze, salmonella-infected toddler snacks, and DDT-contaminated seafood. . .
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-chinavores-dilemma
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Riding out the financial crisis |
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 Chia Ti Lik
Year 2008 is a year of change, of forced consolidation and rebirth.
Out of university in 1998, I entered the workforce in 1999 fresh with memories of having to work part-time throughout my practice law course. The economy was still feeling the effects of the Asian financial crisis. |
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 Just weeks after the Singapore authorities gave an upbeat report that the Integrated Resort Casino will create thousands of jobs, developer Las Vegas Sands (or as some wit cracked, Lost Wages Sands) reported that it is haemorrhaging cash and will likely file for bankruptcy. |
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