An integrated water management system, though essential to protect developing nations facing climate change, is but one part of a wider “climate proofing” system, a report released by the UK-based sustainable development NGO Forum for the Future has said.
Melbourne-based writer, blogger and activist Kevin Rennie originally wrote this article on an East Timor solution for refugees for an international audience as part of the European Journalism Centre's Th!nk3 blogging project. We reprint it here with his kind permission.
when you look at the statistic that refugee and humanitarian visas make up just 0.03 percent of all visas granted last year, you wonder why this issue has become so politicized and such a sticky policy issue leading into the election.
Asian and Pacific countries are amongst the beneficiaries as Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Mr Bob McMullan, announced earlier in the month his government would provide grants for 44 clean drinking water and sanitation projects throughout the world.
A growing population and increasing industrialisation have been listed as the chief threats to water supply in the Asia Pacific, according to a UN-sponsored report released last month.
By Fausto Belo Ximenes: I do agree to a certain degree that the support from the international community has been very limited. Yet it is paramount importance to understand the nature of the so-called international community and to what extent it could be influential in the world politics. The international community functions largely [if...
Regional editor Alex Schlotzer takes a look at what lies ahead for the big, and not-so-big, political players in the Southeast Asia/Pacific in 2010.
By Rich Bowden: More than twenty percent of the five thousand children who die every year in East Timor, do so through preventable diseases caused by poor sanitation and drinking unclean water, according to a new supplementary report released by aid agency WaterAid Australia. The NGO said despite poor or non-existent sanitation facilities being...
East Timor's decision to release an Indonesian accused of crimes against humanity has drawn international protests.
East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has angrily denied allegations that he signed a rice deal with a company in which his daughter had an interest.
Img: East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta. Credit: Jeffrey Kingston. East Timor’s President Jose Ramos Horta speaks to the ABC’s Jim Middleton about the five newsmen killed in Balibo, East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion in December 1975. In this video Ramos Horta gives a fascinating insight into the events which...
