Book notice: Empires of Profit

This is the story of the spread of western-style capitalism around the world, and its effects, often unpleasant, on the local populace

A bit off focus

An exhibition of Indian wildlife photographer Subhankar Banerjee's highly acclaimed snapshots of Alaska has been bumped from a prime spot near …

Overdose of war coverage

The relentless bombardment of war-related footage on tv screens has stressed out viewers. Audiences all around the globe have been complaining of …

IPDC Prize - Radio recognition

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has announced that it will present the International Programme for the …

Photography: Still lives

Time has almost stood still in the tiny Lower Nanyao village beneath the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in south-western China. Wild buffaloes still …

Global, and psycho

If business corporations are the most dominant institutions on Earth today, then what is their nature? This question animates The Corporation, …

At loggers' heads

In Hobart, Australia, environmentalists are determined to continue throughout the summer tourist season a campaign to highlight the threat -- by …

Website review: www.digitaldividenetwork.org

Information is power. So are the technologies that help access and disseminate information. There has always been a gap between those people and …

Stars' tantrums on cola controversy

News Snippets

NEWS SNIPPETS

Simply Put: World Press Freedom Day

Getting the voice across

CD>> Politics • Malaysia

Hollywood, the second largest polluter in Los Angeles

Website on Caribbean Indigenous and endanged languages launched

Alien waters, photography exhibition

ILO says economic growth leads to longer working hours in Asia

Lights out in Hong Kong to protest polluted air

Ethnographical account by a forest officer

Vanashakti against forest rights act

Eco-tourism museum for Maracaibo lake

South African ad authority hard on Monsanto

Animal rights activists jailed in UK

UK firms fail to meet environmental standards

Students design plan to live with climate change in 50 years