Women in prison
Convicted
SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series
Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Kath Tucker
"When you imprison a woman, you imprison her children." Eighty per cent of women in
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Rubbery figures
LONDON — It has been revealed in an internal British Labour Party document, leaked to the media, that financial membership, contrary to public pronouncements of 280,000, really stands at less than 90,000. Further, there has
Korea and the bomb
The North Korean government last week withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The decision follows a publicity campaign by the United States claiming that North Korea is developing or has already built an atomic
By Nick Johnson
PHNOM PENH — The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) recently made public the presence in Cambodia of three former Vietnamese soldiers. One is an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam now in the Cambodian
Meeting supports public transport
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — At its peak the smog in Melbourne is equal to that in New York, according to Dr Graeme Lorimer, an environment specialist. Addressing a meeting of 250 people at the Melbourne
Brain Sex
SBS Television
March 21, 7.30 p.m.
Reviewed by Karen Fredericks
The differences between men's and women's brains are the ostensible subject of the three-part documentary Brain Sex, screened by SBS over the last two Sunday
By Dave Riley
Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of treating food with ionising radiation to increase
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The names of Juan Dávila, Xiomara and Alma Nubia will never be registered in any US State Department "Human Rights Reports". Juan Dávila was shot in the chest by recontras when he answered a late night
South Korean socialist jailed
Ilbung Choe, a South Korean socialist, publisher and political prisoner since October 1992, was not among thousands of people granted amnesty by the South Korean government last month.
Choe, who had published
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