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MANILA, PHILIPPINES– Focus on the Global South, a Manila and Bangkok-based think tank, released its Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook called ‘Crisis and Change’. The 250-page yearbook contains analyses, commentaries, and reports on key economic and political issues that took center stage in 20 …

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a regional mechanism, which was created in 2001 and consists of the following: People’s Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was inspired by the need to solve the border disputes lingering between the Sov …

Edited by Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective China’s global expansion is much talked about, but usually from the viewpoint of the West. This unique collection of essays, written by scholars and activists from China and the …

Essay collection presented by the Reclaiming Public Water Network November 2007 CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION 1. THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WATER POLICY: PRIVILEGING PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT OVER PRO-POOR ACCESS 2. LABOUR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION: A PUP IN BENCHMARKING WATER UTILITIES IN ASIA 3. FROM BAD SE …

The Focus Annual Report 2006 has just been released.

‘At the Door of all the East’: The Philippines in United States Military Strategy This report seeks to document and explain why and how the United States has been attempting to re-establish its military presence in the Philippines in the period beginning in 2001. Diverging from the common explanatio …

Introduction   Three-quarters of the world’s 852 million men and women suffering from hunger are found in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their survival. Most of them are landless farmers or have such tiny or unproductive plots of land that they cannot feed their families”. This was the as …

A report for Focus on the Global South by Isabelle Delforge From small farms to fast food chains and supermarkets The fast food retailer Kentucky Fried Chicken requires chickens that weigh exactly two kilograms in order to fit the size of the portions. Some segments of the Japanese market want okra …

Five years after the initial deployment, this report gathers the available information and evidence regarding this claim. It relies on publicly available information provided by US troops themselves who, in writing about their missions for military publications, have gone on record to describe their …