Tutti i temi: Asia Sudoccidentale

28.02.2005 The World Food Programme has air-dropped food supplies over regions in Afghanistan which are inaccessible because of poor road conditions and heavy snow.

24.02.2005 Iranin Punaisen Puolikuun avustusryhmät auttavat varhain tiistaiaamuna tapahtuneen maanjäristyksen uhreja Kaakkois-Iranissa Kermanin maakunnassa. Järjestö on toimittanut alueelle telttoja, huopia ja elintarvikkeita helikoptereilla ja kolmella lentokoneella. Ylii 500 ihmisen arvioidaan kuolleen maanjäristyksessä.

23.02.2005 Viimeisimmissä tarkastuksissa Iranista ei ole löydetty todisteita ydinaseiden kehittelystä, sanoi Kansainvälisen atomienergiakomission pääsihteeri Mohamed ElBaradei haastattelussa hiljattain. Hän suositteli, että Yhdysvallat liittyisi Iso-Britannian, Saksan ja Ranskan Iranin kanssa käymiin neuvotteluihin, joissa pyritään löytämään diplomaattinen ratkaisu kiistaan maan ydinaseohjelmasta.

22.02.2005 As European leaders seek to cool the passions of George Bush on Iran, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, says that inspections in Iran have produced no recent evidence of development of nuclear weapons. He recommends that the US should join in the European strategy of diplomatic engagement.

21.02.2005 Kolme vuotta Taleban-hallinnon kaatumisen jälkeen afganistanilaislapset ovat alkaneet palata kouluihin, talous kasvaa rivakasti ja naisten asema on parantunut. Kaikkien aikojen ensimmäinen Inhimillisen kehityksen raportti Afganistanista varoittaa kuitenkin, että vakava köyhyys, epätasa-arvo ja epävakaus saattavat suistaa maan takaisin kaaokseen.

21.02.2005 Poikkeuksellisen ankara talvi koettelee Afganistanin lapsia. Erityisen hankala tilanne on vuoristossa ja maan koillisosissa. Tähän mennessä yli sadan lapsen on raportoitu menehtyneen kylmyyteen. Unicef on aloittanut maassa lasten tuhkarokko- ja hinkuyskärokotukset ja ryhtynyt toimittamaan lämpimiä vaatteita ja huopia pahimmin kärsiville alueille.

20.02.2005 At his inauguration, the newly elected leader of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, has stated his determination to push for independence and to form a strategic alliance with Russia.

11.02.2005 More than one month after the tsunamis hit Southeast Asia, a businessman in Wolfville, N.S. is anxiously waiting for more news from the people who helped him build his company. Jeff Moore, one of the founders of the Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, says 90 per cent of the tea they carry is grown and packaged near the disaster region in Sri Lanka. They also purchase 10 per cent of their coffee beans from Indonesia's Aceh province. Economies must be re-built in Asia but this time ethics should be part of the brew.

11.02.2005 More than a 100 people have been killed by acute respiratory infections, mainly pneumonia and whooping cough in southern, eastern and northern provinces of Afghanistan due to cold weather.

08.02.2005 USA:n kampanja Afganistanin vilkkaan heroiinikaupan kitkemiseksi voi viedä presidentti Hamid Karzain hallitukselta kansanjoukkojen tuen, kehitys- ja ihmisoikeusjärjestöt varoittavat. Unikkopeltojen äkkinäinen hävittäminen saattaa myös heikentää talebanien vallan kukistuttua alkanutta kehitystä, sanotaan järjestöjen kirjeessä USA:n uudelle ulkoministerille Condoleezza Ricelle.

08.02.2005 Internews, with its partner, Future Generation, opened a radio station in the Ghazni province in Afghanistan. Four staff and seven volunteers produce five programs, including Nama ha wa Ahangha Shuma (“Your Letters and Your Songs”), a program designed to facilitate dialogue within the community.

07.02.2005 Only three countries--Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India--are still reporting new cases of polio, and even there the disease has been cornered in just a few areas. An all-out vaccination push this year could mark the end of the disease once and for all on the continent.

04.02.2005 The United States must be as careful in fighting the booming heroin trade in Afghanistan as it has been in waging war against Taliban and al Qaeda insurgents, according to 31 U.S., international and Afghan development and human rights groups.

04.02.2005 The Georgian Prime Minister, Zurab Zhvania, was one of the architects of the Rose Revolution and close ally of President Mikheil Saakashvili. He has died in an apparent accident involving an Iranian gas heater, a backgammon board, and a curious midnight meeting with a provincial governor.

04.02.2005 The Georgian Prime Minister, Zurab Zhvania, was one of the architects of the Rose Revolution and close ally of President Mikheil Saakashvili. He has died in an apparent accident involving an Iranian gas heater, a backgammon board, and a curious midnight meeting with a minor provincial governor.

04.02.2005 The Voice of Afghan Women, first started in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban, lost its funding and went off the air. Thanks to donations from Germany, it's back, but for how long?

03.02.2005 Radio Spin Ghar (White Mountain) that opened in December last year in Afghanistan is witnessing enormous success among audience. The radio reaches 220,000 people in the predominantly Pashto-speaking Nangarhar Province.

03.02.2005 Opium planting in Afghanistan has increased exponentially since the expulsion of the Taliban. Destruction of these crops by the US government is not the answer, say development agencies.

03.02.2005 It's great that the U.S. has apparently turned its attention and resources to addressing the drug trade problem in Afghanistan, says a group of 31 international and Afghan development organizations, but massive crop eradication plans would likely backfire, they warn.