Sounds red alert over lack of environmental awareness among electoral candidates
MANILA — Environmental activists, people’s organizations, and progressive partylists today launched an Earth Day 2007 People’s Caravan from Quezon City to Manila, aiming to generate more public awareness of pressing environmental and people’s issues at stake in the 2007 national elections.
MANILA, April19 — At its meeting today, the Monetary Board decided to maintain the BSP?s key policy interest rates at 7.5 percent for the overnight borrowing or reverse repurchase (RRP) rate and 9.75 percent for the overnight lending or repurchase (RP) rate. The tiering system on bank placements with the BSP was also retained.
By Brad Glosserman
Pacific Forum
Nuclear strategy has become a core concern in the U.S.-Japan alliance. North Korea is the immediate trigger for Japanese anxiety, but similar uncertainties lie just beneath the surface when Japan contemplates China as well. U.S. assurances are needed ? both to Japan and to potential adversaries that need to be deterred. Most important, however, is a ?back to basics approach? for the U.S. and its alliance partners. Changing international circumstances and evolving domestic politics oblige Washington and its allies to focus on fundamentals of strategy to ensure that alliances have the foundation ?the common worldview ? that will allow them to survive and thrive in a new strategic environment.
New York ?The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Philippine government to ensure prompt and thorough investigations into two separate shootings this week, one of which took the life of radio reporter Carmelo Palacios. Police have assigned the cases to a special task force that investigates attacks on journalists.
Presidents of 13 premier universities in Asia and Middle East to gather at Washington University in St. Louis May 4-7 to discuss global energy and environmental concerns
St. Louis, MO — For the first time in the United States, the presidents of 13 premier universities from Asia and the Middle East will gather at Washington University in St. Louis May 4-7 to discuss ways their institutions are addressing global energy and environmental concerns. These institutions include Peking, Fudan, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, National Taiwan, Tsinghua and Yonsei universities.