An Open Letter to the Mediahouses in India! The Struggle Committee June 16, 2013 People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Idinthakarai & P. O. 627 104 Tirunelveli District Tamil Nadu Dear friends: Greetings! Please allow us to bring the following to your kind attention in the larger interests of our country, people and most importantly, our democracy and freedom. As the Fourth Pillar of our demo ...

Sad scenes of Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo - writer, professor, and political dissident, in 2009, Liu was sentenced to 11 years for inciting subversion because of his involvement in writing Charter 08, a petition advocating political reform in China - were aired on newscasts recently. She was seen crying in a car outside Huairou Detention Centre where her brother Liu Hui has been jailed in Huairou district, ...

The cost of labour in China has risen significantly over the last few years, prompting many low cost, labour intensive manufacturers to relocate to cheaper production areas such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. But while wages for factory workers in China have certainly increased, the rate of increase has not kept pace with that of higher income earners. Indeed, the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poo ...

The annual candlelight vigil on June 4, held each year in Hong Kong, to commemorate the Tiananmen Crackdown, Incident or Massacre of 1989, continued to draw mass participation in its usual Victoria Park site, Hong Kong Island. The slogan for this year’s protest - “Love the country, love the people. That’s the Hong Kong spirit. Reverse the June 4 verdict. We will never give up”, by Hong Kong Alliance in Supp ...

 The redevelopment of one of India’s most populated areas, Bhendi Bazaar in South Mumbai, is set to make an interesting example for cities across the world concerned with high population density,” By Qureish Raghib From being an irrigation tract in its early days as mentioned in the Maharashtra State Gazette as, ‘in the north-west of Dongri there existed a plantation of thespesia populnia or bhendi which ha ...

  Japan adopted its war-renouncing constitution following World War II, with Article 9 as a promise to itself and a pledge to the world to never repeat its mistakes. The debate provoked by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo over amending this famous peace clause threatens to destabilise the fragile regional peace. By Yoshioka Tatsuya [1] and Celine Nahory [2] For original see: http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ ...

Recently, Bangladesh Power Development Board and the National Thermal Power Corporation of India signed a contract to build, under joint venture, the 1320MW Rampal Coal Fired Power Plant near the Sundabans. This is an invitation to a developmental disaster, one which can help destroy one of the world’s natural wildlife wonders. By Md. Sariful Islam and Shah Arafat Hossain Department of Development Studies, ...

India-China-Bangladesh Dimapur declaration on water and indigenous communities rights May 20, 2013 A Statement from the Northeast Dialogue Forum We, the representatives of the indigenous people's organizations of India's North East concerned over the issue of water and adverse impacts of mega development processes, such as mega dam constructions, mining in the region, coming together on 17 – 18 May 2013 at ...

WELL DONE, PAKISTAN! Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D. For quite a while the media has been flooded with dire predictions by various analysts, commentators, and experts, about the future of Pakistan. But the May 11, 2013 elections have proved them wrong. Even though terribly malnourished, bloodied and tormented, the Spirit of Pakistan is still alive and kicking! In one of the most transparent, well-organized, and abl ...

Further to the Pressenza report on Mohammed Yunus call to the West to help make the clothes industry safer after nearly 1200 died in the collapse of a factory building, an international agreement has been signed by several companies to ensure fire regulations, health and safety monitoring, better salaries and working conditions as well as unionisation. Labour groups have drawn up an industry-wide agreement ...