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Usually municipal elections don't capture much international attention. However, after the three-year Italian corruption scandal in which more than 2000 politicians and industrialists are under investigation, there was some

Some 110,000 people rallied in Manila on November 30, sending a clear message to the Ramos government that the progressive moment is ready and able to launch a new campaign for political and economic reforms. The unity statement of

HANOI — The village of Co Nhue is north of the city. Some four kilometres long, it stretches along the highway to the airport. I visited Co Nhue to meet with representatives from the Peasants Association in the village.

HANOI — The introduction of private enterprises has adversely affected women here. Of some 700,000 people who have lost their jobs in the state sector, two-thirds are women. Creches and kindergartens have deteriorated

Indonesian student activist arrestedJAKARTA — A leading student activist, Nuku Suleiman, was arrested in the early hours of Friday, November 26 in the office of Yayasan Pijar, a Jakarta student organisation. He has been

A last-minute concession by South African President F.W. de Klerk has allowed the multiparty negotiating forum finally to agree on an interim constitution under which South Africa will be governed until 1999. The agreement clears

Police on November 19 shot dead Raimal Punya Vasave, a 15-year-old tribal youth, during a protest against the giant Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River in Maharashtra state. Three other tribal people were seriously injured. The villagers

VIVIENNE PORZSOLT spoke recently to HA'IFA BARAMKI, director of continuing education at Bir Zeit University. Mrs Baramki was born in Gaza and stayed there until she went to study at the Beirut College for Women. She returned to Gaza and taught

MOSCOW — Liberal journalists and moderate political leaders have bitterly condemned the draft constitution released by President Boris Yeltsin on November 10. Major criticisms of the document include charges that it violates

Controversial daily launched in PNGA controversial new daily newspaper, published by an associate company of the Malaysian logging corporation which dominates Papua New Guinea's timber industry, appeared on November 11 —

A resurgent religious right in the United States is again contesting old hard-won rights. Youth are a particular target of homophobes. The insinuation of religious bigots onto school boards has led to censorship of textbooks and library books and the

In a small Baghdad grocery store, a child of perhaps five came in, clearly proud to be doing an important errand. He was clutching a five dinar note — approximately 9 British pence at the official rate of exchange.