Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmadu, Nepal (AHN) – The state-run Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has decided to increase power blackouts throughout the country from the current 56 hours a week to 74 hours beginning Wednesday because of a rapid decrease of water levels in rivers. Most of Nepal’s hydroelectric facilities are run-of-the-river operations [...]
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Human rights report paints gloomy picture of Nepal in many fronts
December 11th, 2010
davidguide Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Hong Kong based Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), has issued a report this week on the occasion of Human Rights Day 2010, highlighting the defects that are evident in the area of the judiciary as extraordinary delays often affect the possibility of fair trail. “The [...]
UN Special Representative For Somalia, Egypt Discuss Somalia
November 25th, 2010
davidguide Abdi Hajji Hussein – AHN News Correspondent Cairo, Egypt (AHN) – United Nations’ special representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga, and Wafaa Basseem, Egypt’s foreign minister assistant, on Thursday met in Cairo and discussed the latest issues about war-torn Somalia. The talks focused on ways to support the transitional federal government of Somalia until the end [...]
Irish PM Doesn’t See Elections Before March Next Year
November 23rd, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Dublin, Ireland (AHN) – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Monday said that he was waiting for the Parliament to pass the significant budget at a time when his country is facing a debt crisis, adding that he doesn’t expect general elections before March of next year. The Irish leader said that [...]
EU, IMF, ECB To Discuss Irish Debt Crisis In Dublin
November 18th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Dublin, Ireland (AHN) – Representatives from the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are due to arrive in Dublin on Wednesday to discuss the Irish financial crisis with its government, which has not yet requested any aid. The EU already believes that Ireland needs some kind of [...]
Suu Kyi Still Seeks “Peaceful Resolution” To Reform In Burma
November 16th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Yangon, Myanmar (AHN) – Just two days after the military rulers released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest after 15 years, the Nobel peace prize winner said that she is seeking peaceful revolution in Myanmar. In an interview with BBC at the National League for Democracy’s headquarters, she expressed [...]
India’s Mahindra Satyam shows fiscal year quarterly profit
November 15th, 2010
davidguide India’s outsourcing firm Mahindra Satyam, recovering from the country’s biggest-ever corporate fraud, on Monday reported its first profits since the scandal erupted. View full post on All Stories
Amnesty Criticizes Hungary Over Roma Violence
November 12th, 2010
davidguide AHN News Staff Budapest, Hungary (AHN) – Amnesty International has blasted Hungary for failing to protect the country’s largest Roma population from violence. Identifying shortcomings and gaps in country’s criminal justice system, the human rights group said that police surprisingly failed to record some of the attacks happened between 2008 and 2009 – a charge [...]
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