Clinton Global initiative Embraces NGOs The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is holding its annual meeting (9/23-25) in New York with heads of state, business leaders, philanthropists and representatives from NGOs. Founded in 2005 by former President...
Aung San Suu Kyi Visits Burmese Community in Indiana The last time Nyein Chan saw his role model, Aung San Suu Kyi, he was a student leader in the uprising against Burmas government in 1988. They met as part of a group discussing Burmas path to democ...
Vietnam Aims to Improve Coffee Supplier Reputation When most people think of coffee they do not usually think of Vietnam. But, this year the Southeast Asian nation surpassed Brazil as the world's biggest coffee exporter. Almost all are robusta beans...
Obama Leads Polls in Romneys Home State of Michigan In November, Michigan college student Zachary Harner will cast his first vote in a presidential election. He said that vote will go to fellow Michigan native Romney. He was born in Detroit. His fath...
Presidential Debates Meant to Persuade Undecided Voters By October, each major party's presidential candidate has locked in many supporters. But there are still undecided people to persuade, whose votes may well decide the election. The debates betwe...
Community Leaders Anticipate High Arab-American Voter Turnout Imam Hassan Qazwini had not witnessed a peaceful transition of power of government growing up in Iraq. His first such experience came in the United States. When I came and saw the peaceful...
When it Comes to Beer, Variety Rules in USA Americans didnt invent beer. The refreshing, intoxicating and fattening malt beverage dates back at least 6,000 years, to the Babylonians. We dont even drink the most beer per capita. The Czechs, at 132 lit...
International Cooperation Under Strain The World Trade Organization is holding its annual public forum in Geneva. Representatives from governments, NGOs, business and academia are debating whether international cooperation is suffering in these turbu...
Aung San Suu Kyi Calls for Reconciliation in Burma Burmese Americans waited in line for more than six hours to see their heroine - the woman they call Mommy Suu, greeting her with chants of be healthy. Aung San Suu Kyi was released two years ago afte...
Dire Warnings Issued on Diminishing Arctic Ice Polar bears hunt seals from sea ice, but could drown if forced to swim long distances in open water. Satellite photos released by Americas space agency, NASA, illustrate the daunting threat to such bears...
European Farmers Work to Boost Global Grain Supplies Britain has just been hit with its wettest summer in 100 years and that's been bad news for a lot of farmers, especially inland and in the north. But in the eastern pocket of Suffolk, wheat yields...
USAID Democracy Programs Can Complicate International Relations After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the leaders of Russia asked the U.S. for assistance in building a democracy and a market economy. Over the past 20 years, election-monitoring grou...
Tests Show Levels of Arsenic in US Rice Two hundred different types of rice and rice products tested by both the non-profit research group, Consumer Reports, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], contained varying levels of different forms...
Several US States to Let Voters Decide Same-Sex Marriage DeRionne Pollard and Robyn Jones are raising their six-year-old son Myles like other families in a loving home environment. They have been a couple for 23 years and wed in California three year...
UN Seeks Extra Funding for DRC Displaced Life goes on at a displaced peoples camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivus capital. Children troop to the schoolhouse singing Lets go to school so we can learn religion, arithmetic and French. At night the...
