Articles by Marwaan Macan-Markar
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In Vietnam, Rhino Horns Worth Their Weight in Gold
Marwaan Macan-Markar – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 May 2013
Gold, once the favourite gift among the communist-ruled country’s expanding class of wealthy citizens, has been dethroned by rhino horns, which currently fetch 65,000 dollars per kilogramme. This is “more than gold, gram for gram.” Though the weight of rhino horns vary, an individual horn can fetch upto 150,000 dollars.
→ read full articleBRICS to Show Its Weight at WTO
Marwaan Macan-Markar – Inter Press Service-IPS,
25 Apr 2011
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has, not surprisingly, been singled out as a venue to demonstrate the collective strength of the informal coalition of major emerging economies across three continents – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS nations. All member countries but Russia are members of the Geneva-based WTO.
→ read full articleClimate Change: Developing Countries Step In Where Richer Nations Fear to Tread
Marwaan Macan-Markar – Inter Press Service-IPS,
11 Apr 2011
Led by countries like Indonesia, 48 developing nations are rolling out a range of pledges to voluntarily cut their respective emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2020, the year climate scientists say the earth’s rising temperature should peak by if an environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
→ read full articleBurma: After Suu Kyi’s Release, Dangerous Time Sets In
Marwaan Macan-Markar – Inter Press Service,
15 Nov 2010
Suu Kyi, the daughter of Burma’s independence hero Aung San, has been granted freedom twice before since her first imprisonment in her ancestral home in July 1989. The freedoms granted to her by the military leaders of Burma, or Myanmar, were never permanent. Thus, this early, as Suu Kyi takes her first tentative steps as a free Burmese citizen after spending 15 of the past 21 years as a prisoner in her home, concern is already being expressed about whether her freedom will be short- lived.
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