HEALTH-US: Iraq Brings Wounds That Deepen With Time
tina Aaron GlantzSAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct 11 2006 (IPS) - A new report in this month s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that while a high percentage of…
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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Solidarity With Developing Nations – At a Cost
Moyiga NduruJOHANNESBURG, Nov 14 2006 (IPS) - As concerns continue to be expressed about the departure of African medical professionals for wealthy countries, South Africa says it is not recruiting…
PERU: Gasping for Clean Air in La Oroya
Milagros SalazarLA OROYA, Peru, Dec 12 2006 (IPS) - A grey blanket of smog hangs over the mining town of La Oroya high up in the Andes in Peru, where…
HEALTH-INDIA: Patients Before Patents, Groups Urge
Stephen LeahyBROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 29 2007 (IPS) - A quarter of a million people from over 150 countries don t think a multinational drug company should seek to overturn a…
โปรดิวเซอร์ Ghost of Tsushima มอง ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows มีจุดมุ่งหมายต่างจากเกมของตน’
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ในขณะที่เกมยิงปืนส่วนใหญ่ มักจะตัดสินแพ้ชนะกันที่ฝีมือการยิงปืนแทบจะทั้งหมด เกมยิงปืนแนวเอาตัวรอด (Survival Shooter) กลับได้รับความนิยมในหมู่เกมเมอร์ทั่วโลกจากความเป็นไปได้ในการวางแผนอันลึกล้ำและหลากหลาย โดยนอกจากจะต้องตามหาทรัพยากรณ์อย่างกระสุนและชุดเกราะเช่นเดียวกับในเกมแนว Batt…
อุกอาจ! เว็บไซต์รัสเซียเปิด Cloud Gaming เถื่อน เล่นเกม Zelda – Animal Crossing
เทคโนโลยี Cloud Gaming นั้นแม้จะไม่ใช่สิ่งใหม่แต่ก็ถือเป็นสิ่งที่ช่วยปลดล็อกการเล่นเกมแบบไร้พรมแดนได้อย่างเห็นได้ชัดเพราะเครื่องเล่นเกมบางส่วนอาทิ Nintendo Switch กับ Xbox ก็ได้พิสูจน์แนวคิดแล้วว่าต่อให้ไม่ต้องมีเครื่องแรงๆ หรือขนาดติดตั้งก็สามารถเข้าถึงคลังเกมยอดเยี่ยมระดับคอนโซลได้เพียงแค…
POLITICS: Nations Move to Ban Most-Random Bombs
Eli CliftonWASHINGTON, Feb 21 2007 (IPS) - When more than 40 government delegations meet in Oslo, Norway later this week to negotiate a treaty banning the use of cluster munitions…
POPULATION: U.S. Funding Cuts Undermine Terror War
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Apr 4 2007 (IPS) - A proposed 25-percent cut in U.S. international assistance for population in the upcoming 2008 budget threatens to undermine the war against terrorism,…
HEALTH: Thailand Turns Giant Pharma Killer
Marwaan Macan-MarkarBANGKOK, May 10 2007 (IPS) - By standing up to pressure from big pharmaceutical companies over cheap anti-AIDS drugs, Thailand may have created an opening in global trade rules…
Q&A: “I Said to Myself, Why Not Create an NGO Focused on the Dignity of Women?”
Interview with Salamatou TraoréNIAMEY, Jun 12 2007 (IPS) - Later this year, Salamatou Traoré a leading health worker in Niger will be awarded a five thousand dollar grant from the…
ENVIRONMENT-INDONESIA: Plastic Bottles Plus Sun Rays = Potable Water
Richel Langit-DursinJAKARTA, Jul 12 2007 (IPS) - Used plastic bottles and sun rays are all that the impoverished residents of Bintaro, South Jakarta, need for their families to have clean…
DEVELOPMENT: Water as a Right and Key to Social Stability
Thalif DeenSTOCKHOLM, Aug 15 2007 (IPS) - A top United Nations official has learned through personal experience what it is like to live without safe drinking water during her visits…
EL SALVADOR: Closing of Dumps Necessary But Not Sufficient
Raúl GutiérrezSAN SALVADOR, Sep 11 2007 (IPS) - After several years delay, authorities in El Salvador are about to permanently close down the unofficial open-air rubbish dumps that have polluted…
PERU: New Census to Make Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Count
Milagros SalazarLIMA, Oct 8 2007 (IPS) - The Peruvian state will repay a longstanding debt to indigenous people in the country s Amazon region by including them in a national…
ENVIRONMENT-US: Toxins Threaten to Uproot Entire Town
Mark WeisenmillerTAMPA, Florida, Nov 1 2007 (IPS) - The quiet village of Tallevast in Florida #39s Manatee County traces its roots back to the 1890s, when a community of shacks…
RIGHTS: UN Spotlights “Massive and Systematic” Abuse of Women
Haider RizviUNITED NATIONS, Nov 30 2007 (IPS) - Millions of women across the world are beaten, killed, bought and sold by men, yet the gruesome violence and cruel treatment they…
HEALTH-ASIA: Religious Leaders Tackle HIV, AIDS
Jaime LimBANGKOK, Jan 19 2008 (IPS) - The Korean superstar RAIN was roped in by the Christian relief group World Vision last year to help promote awareness of HIV and…
HEALTH: Most Malnourished Children Aided Too Late
Abra PollockWASHINGTON, Feb 21 2008 (IPS) - Prevention may be the best medicine of all when it comes to tackling childhood malnutrition, according to a study published this week in…
ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Experts Call for Stronger Anti-Smog Measures
Daniela EstradaSANTIAGO, Mar 27 2008 (IPS) - It s as if we were swimming at a beach unfit for bathing. For four or five months a year, the air is…
IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*BAQUBA, May 9 2008 (IPS) - Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital…
MIDEAST: Hospitals in Need of Care
Nora Barrows-FriedmanJEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, Jun 11 2008 (IPS) - In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza s only emergency medical facility in the…
POPULATION: UN Predicts 12 Billion if Family Planning Falters
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 2008 (IPS) - The United Nations commemorated World Population Day Friday in the shadow of a staggering array of grim statistics: an estimated 200 million…
HEALTH: Keeping Hope Against AIDS Alive in the Labs
Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Aug 7 2008 (IPS) - We need to get away from this home-run mentality to research. Science is incremental, said Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global…
HEALTH: WHO Warns Against ‘Bird Flu Fatigue’
Stella GonzalesMANILA, Oct 7 2008 (IPS) - So where is the pandemic? This is a question most often asked of health experts years after they warned about a pandemic influenza…
Q&A: Escalating Violence Against Women in Swaziland
Mantoe Phakathi interviews HLOBISILE DLAMINI-SHONGWE, gender activistMBABANE, Swaziland, Nov 27 2008 (IPS) - Still wearing a campaign t-shirt with the slogan FED UP: with violence against women , Dlamini-Shongwe, the…
MIDEAST: Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
Erin CunninghamGAZA CITY, Jan 21 2009 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had…
IRAQ: Medical Care At Last, At a Price
Dahr JamailBAGHDAD, Mar 6 2009 (IPS) - Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it. Why would I want…
HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Government Promises to Rebuild Health System
Stanley Kwenda interviews HENRY MADZORERA, minister of Health and Child WelfareHARARE, Apr 4 2009 (IPS) - The resuscitation of Zimbabwe s health care system has been identified as one of…
HEALTH: Chernobyl Kids Keep Arriving in Cuba
Patricia Grogg* - IPS/IFEJHAVANA, May 7 2009 (IPS) - Thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, where the worst nuclear accident in history occurred 23 years ago, the sun and fresh air…
DEVELOPMENT: ‘‘19th WEF on Africa Just About Elite Agendas’’
Miriam MannakCAPE TOWN, Jun 9 2009 (IPS) - The 19th World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, which kicks off tomorrow, is a space for the rich and powerful elites who…
US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
Jim Lobe*WASHINGTON, Jul 2 2009 (IPS) - In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack…
MIDEAST: New Israeli Plan to Warn of Impending Attacks
Eli CliftonWASHINGTON, Aug 6 2009 (IPS) - The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is taking new measures to warn Palestinian civilians about impending aerial attacks. This comes in response to questions…
HEALTH-NIGERIA: Maternal Mortality, a Rural Community’s Example
Toluwa OlusegunFARASINME, Nigeria, Sep 2 2009 (IPS) - Women, their children strapped to their backs, defy the mid-morning sun and converge on the Primary Healthcare Centre, located on the outskirts…
HEALTH: U.S. Urged to Double Aid to Global Projects
Matthew BergerWASHINGTON, Oct 29 2009 (IPS) - As the effort to achieve universal health coverage within the U.S. crawls forward in Washington, a new report by a coalition of global…
UGANDA: Lifting Silence on Menstruation to Keep Girls in School
Joshua KyalimpaKAMPALA, Oct 22 2009 (IPS) - More than half of Ugandan girls who enrol in grade one drop out before sitting for their primary school-leaving examinations. The fact that…
US: Soldiers Forced to Go AWOL for PTSD Care
Dahr JamailMARFA, Texas, Dec 11 2009 (IPS) - With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go absent…
ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
B. C. LeeBANGKOK, Jan 27 2010 (IPS) - When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if…