HEALTH: Seeking Answers in the Failed Response to AIDS
paul Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, May 26 2006 (IPS) - The AIDS epidemic, described by the United Nations as the most destructive in human history and accounting for more than 25 million…
RIGHTS-CAMEROON: Finally, a Law Against Female Genital Mutilation?
Sylvestre TetchiadaYAOUNDE, Jul 3 2006 (IPS) - Recently, Cameroon s female legislators could be found under a tree in the garden of the country s parliament, listening to Hannah Kwenti:…
HEALTH-ASIA: Gays’ High Risk for HIV Gains Recognition
Marwaan Macan-MarkarBANGKOK, Aug 11 2006 (IPS) - When the Thai government accepted men who have sex with men (MSM) as a vulnerable community in the country s fight against AIDS,…
HEALTH-CHILE: Court Stops Free Distribution of ‘Morning After Pill’
Daniela EstradaSANTIAGO, Sep 13 2006 (IPS) - The Santiago appeals court ruled Wednesday against the distribution of emergency contraception, or the morning after pill, to girls in Chile between the…
ไม่รอด! Baldur’s Gate III เวอร์ชันคอนโซลในญี่ปุ่นเตรียมโดนเซ็นเซอร์
forever แม้ผู้เล่นในประเทศอื่นๆ จะได้เล่นBaldur’s Gate IIIกันไปตั้งแต่กลางปีที่ผ่านมา แต่ในส่วนของผู้ใช้งานคอนโซลในประเทศญี่ปุ่นก็ยังต้องรอกันยาวจนถึงปลายปีนี้เลยครับ และล่าสุดก็มีการยืนยันเพิ่มเติมจาก Spike Chunsoft ผู้จัดจำหน่ายในพื้นที่แดนปลาดิบแล้วด้วยเหมือนกันครับว่าตัวเกมจะต้องถูกเซ็…
ไดเร็กเตอร์ XCOM 2 เผย ‘ไม่เคยเห็นการปลดพนักงานครั้งใหญ่แบบนี้มาในชีวิตการทำงานของเขา’
Jake Solomon ผู้มากประสบการณ์ในวงการเกม 23 ปี จาก Firaxis ได้ประกาศเปิดตัว Midsummer Studios สตูดิโอเกมอิสระแห่งใหม่ของเขาเอง และในโอกาสนี้ DualShockers ได้พูดคุยกับ Solomon เกี่ยวกับสตูดิโอใหม่และเกมเปิดตัวของพวกเขาอย่างไรก็ตามในบทสัมภาษณ์ได้พูดถึงสถานการณ์ที่ค่อนข้างเลวร้ายของอุตสาหกรรมเกมในช่วงนี้ที่มีการเ…
HEALTH-US: Iraq Brings Wounds That Deepen With Time
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…
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
jenny 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
andy 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…
EAST EUROPE: Taxing Fast Foods for Health
Pavol StracanskyBRATISLAVA, Mar 2 2010 (IPS) - Health experts have called on European governments to use a pioneering tax on fast foods to be introduced in Romania as a model…
HEALTH-INDIA: Trained Birth Attendants Save Rural Mothers’ Lives
Manipadma JenaBHUBANESWAR, India, Apr 7 2010 (IPS) - It was her fourth unplanned pregnancy, but Sani Jani still made it a point to have a monthly checkup at the nearest…
Q&A: Anti-Counterfeit Policy Will Provide “Proper” Generics
Wambi Michael interviews JUMA MWAPACHU, secretary general of the East African Community (Part 1)KAMPALA, May 7 2010 (IPS) - The anti-counterfeit draft policy and law that the East African Community…
HEALTH-NEPAL: Multiple Problems Mar Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Bhuwan SharmaKATHMANDU, Jun 20 2010 (IPS) - To women who have lost their husbands to the killer AIDS disease, learning a skill to earn a living could be a matter…
ROMANIA: Digging Gold With a Cyanide Lining
Claudia CiobanuBUCHAREST, Jul 16 2010 (IPS) - Canadian company Gabriel Resources has managed to resurrect a cyanide-based gold exploitation project which had been declared illegal in courts, and is opposed…
ZIMBABWE: Questions Raised Over Water Treatment Funding
Mufudzi MoyoHARARE, Aug 9 2010 (IPS) - The memories of Zimbabwe s 2008-2009 cholera outbreak are fresh in the minds of everyone except the people who have the safety of…