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G8: OVER-EXPLOITED SOUTH SARDINIA A TEST CASE FOR G8 MEETING.
July 6, 2009... By Sabina Zaccaro ROME, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Although the G8 leaders summit has been moved to the quake-hit city of L'Aquila, more than a dozen civil society organizations are staying on in Sardinia in support of a region hit by unemployment and environmental contamination. ...

CARIBBEAN: CARICOM FAMILY WOOED BY SOUTH AMERICAN COUSINS.
July 6, 2009... By Bert Wilkinson GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Venezuela's growing political and economic clout is taking a toll on efforts to strengthen the Caribbean's trade bloc, as island nations increasingly look towards the dynamic alliance lead by President Hugo Chavez. Some...

EAST TIMOR: DISABLED ATHLETES AIM FOR SPOT AT BIG GAMES.
July 6, 2009... By Matt Crook DILI, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Jose Noronha gets around Dili, East Timor, on a red wheelchair-bicycle hybrid that can be pedaled with his hands. The disabled athlete, with minimal use of his legs, is making maximum use of his upper body as he practices throwing shotputs into...

ENVIRONMENT-LAOS: RUBBER PLANTATIONS SPAWN SOCIAL STRIFE.
July 6, 2009... By E-Souk/Newsmekong * ATTAPEU, Laos, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - For decades, rubber plantations in the country's Mekong region reaped huge profits for local businessmen. But this industry, long regarded a blessing, is now increasingly a source of social strife. "[Earlier], villagers...

CHINA: OPPOSITION GROWS TO GOVERNMENT'S ONE-CHILD POLICY.
July 6, 2009... By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - When China's population control was imposed in 1980, it was meant to be a temporary measure which the government promised to phase out in three decades. It was intended to halt the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s. But as China...