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Peru
News Snippets
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2010
>> An ad supporting Peru’s last uncontacted tribes is appearing in European and American publications in a bid to stop Peru’s government from allowing an oil pipeline to be built through Indian territory. The ad has been created by the tribal rights group Survival International.
>> China has restored access to the Internet in its far western region of Xinjiang, ending 10 months of blocked or limited access. The restrictions were imposed in July 2009 after violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese claimed nearly 200 people.
News 360<sup></sup> - Briefs
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
indigenous peoples rights
Lima offers soil, denies subsoil
News 360° - Briefs
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
land rights
Peru appeases Amazonians
Peru's Congress abolished two decrees by President Alan Garcia that were aimed at opening large areas of the Peruvian Amazon to oil and gas exploration activities, logging and dams.
News 360° - Briefs
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2009
labour
Provident fund feud
Goa's regional provident fund commissioner has initiated an investigation against the Salgaocar Mining Industries Pvt Ltd after employees complained that they were not enrolled under the provident fund (PF) scheme. More than 130 employees working with the mining company for the past 16 years filed the complaint on December 29, 2008.
Counting large mammals
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
camera traps work well to estimate species diversity of medium and large mammals, a recent study says. Counting the number of mammals in dense tropical forests is difficult and rare species are often missed out. Camera traps offer a new tool for finding the number of large and medium sized terrestrial mammals. But the method is not foolproof and researchers point out the importance of having an adequate camera grid size.
Plant from 1491
Issue Date: May 15, 2008
It is unlikely that many of us will ever see Phragmipedium kovachii in the flesh. Discovered only seven years ago, the stunning pink orchid
grows on inhospitable limestone cliffs in Peru's tropical cloud forest. But visitors will now be able to see the orchid at the world's first gallery
dedicated to botanical arts at Kew Gardens in London. The gallery's collection features a depiction of the orchid by Carol Woodin, who travelled
Invader's curse
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
It seems that television is following in the footsteps of 16th European invaders to Latin America. A British reality tv company has been accused of starting a flu epidemic that left four people from a tribe of isolated Peruvian Indians dead and others seriously ill.
Loan for Peru's LNG project
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2008
A midst oppositions from environmental groups, the Inter-American Development Bank has approved a us $400-million loan for the construction of a liquefied natural gas (lng) project in Peru. The project will be the country's first lng export facility.
Why waste a chance?
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
Something's changing in urban India. Cities are now being redesigned to fend for themselves, become 'viable' entities on the balance sheet. Every bit of infrastructure and service is being packaged as an investment opportunity. It's called urban entrepreneurism. Goodbye government, hello markets.
