MDG target spurs need for primary health sector re-assessment FRIDAY, 11 MARCH 2011 00:00 ALEX CHIEJINA ---------------------------------------------------------------- The issue of nation’s primary healthcare (PHC) system has, over the years, become...
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A group of women have broken into what has been a male bastion for centuries: Farming. An IndiaUnheard community reporter Varsha tells us how women are turning food growers in a remote village of India’s...
The sturdy bamboo plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo) is enjoying a revival around the world as a building material. A strong, fast-growing and highly renewable woody plant, it is becoming increasingly...
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It seems like 2008 is becoming the year of global crisis. First we were faced with the worldwide food crisis, swiftly followed by, what now seems to be, a collapse of major financial institutions.At the same time,...
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"The Commonwealth countries of Asia should reduce the expenditure on defence and armaments and use the resources thus saved for the uplift of the poor who are the worst affected by the rise in prices of food and energy, the civil society organisations of Commonwealth states...
"It was 1991 and Goran Varaklic, new to Canada and fresh out of a job, decided to put his knowledge of computers to work. He turned the den of his suburban Toronto apartment into his workshop and started assembling personal computer systems that he sold at cut-rate prices...
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