The Daily IIJ

The rapid development of cities can be attributed to urbanization, one can argue. Trading benefits, technological progression, and better life opportunities has brought people flooding into cities from the country side in search of work and better education for their children. Yet not all find themselves in better hands. Some of them are unable to [...]

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With Aung San Suu Kyi trial continues, international communities have reached the level of frustration, said Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayudha. The leader of National Leguage for Democracy Aung Sang Suu Kyi is being trialed in Yangoon with accusing of breaking her house arrest. Although western and Asean countries condemned the trial, Myanmar military regime [...]

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we are on Friday 05 June. For some time, we have been advised that an ophthalmic consultation campaign is holding in Bè Community Center. Our team has gone there to meet patients and the ophthalmologist.

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We are in Lomé and I am back in my office after two weeks in Accra. I have missed lot things: my colleagues, my office, my work but now I am missing the new friends I have met in Accra. I am missing the hard work we have had and the way everybody has shared [...]

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Today, i could not believe the level to which journalism in my country has sunk to. A friend sent me two links to two stories. One was published by a USA entertainment news website and the other by our own tabloid known as the ‘Red Pepper’.

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ISRAR KHAN ISLAMABAD: Pakistan despite fighting an insurgency on the western borders and absorbing $35 billion cost of ‘war on terror’ since 2001 has  not increased its defense spending in real terms and allocated Rs342.91 (about US$4.2 billion) for defence for the fiscal 2009-10.

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ISRAR KHAN ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s influential agriculture lobbies, both inside and outside the government machinery, have once again succeeded in pushing the government to exempt the politically-sensitive sector from taxes in the budget for the fiscal 2009-10 announced Saturday.

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(Bonn, Jurnal Nasional) To avoid deadlock on climate change talks, 37 developing countries are to set emission reduction target for industrial countries on the table in Bonn, Germany. The target came as 40 % reduction from 1990 level for industrial countries, based on climate change research of IPCC which divided individually based on historical responsibility [...]

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(Bonn, Germany) With lack of science data, Indonesia still determined to lead small islands countries (AOSIS) to push ocean as one of the issue in June climate change talks of UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany. This action was based on Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) that adopted last month where Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and AOSIS determined to [...]

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The money market in Ghana remained one of the most lucrative in Africa even though it posted the highest nominal interest rate on the region. The latest fixed income markets report by Databank (a Ghanaian-based investment bank company), updated for the five months ended this year ranked Ghana as the second highest in terms of real returns.

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