By: Sophia Brain | 2010-11-11 | Anti aging Health officials confirm first case of deadly disease in camp for earthquake survivors as toll soars to 600. Health officials in Haiti have confirmed the first case of cholera in one of the earthquake survivors' camps set up in the capital, Port-au-Prince. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2010-11-19 | Community News Until now, it has been nearly ten months since the severe January earthquake in Haiti. The devastating earthquake turned the whole country into rubble and killed over 300,000 lives. During the difficult time, the United Nations together with aid agencies all over the world endeavored just to help Haiti’s government control society and keep the population. However, battle has not stopped in Haiti due to the spread of cholera epidemic. Data released on last Friday showed that 917 people died and over 14,600 were hospitalized with cholera-like symptoms. read more
By: jillian | 2010-10-25 | Business October 22, the Caribbean island of cholera epidemic GuoHai further spread, has nearly 200 people dead and more than 2000 people infected. Health department worried citizen temporary shelters may infected and foreign aid organizations are dispatched doctors and transport medical equipment. read more
By: Jeff Cannon | 2010-11-22 | Diseases and Conditions Cholera is not just a Haitian problem. It exists potentially wherever people are forced to drink water from contaminated sources. The Water School is launching a program to teach Haitians how to purify their water so they can reduce such water borne diseases in the future. Best of all, they are doing this for less than the cost of a bottle of store bought water. read more
By: Laurence Harrison | 2010-01-15 | Society The 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocking Haiti Island on Tuesday was reported to crush thousands of buildings, including the presidential palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. This ever-recorded read more
By: Chris Wood | 2011-02-24 | Article Marketing As we can see from the news that the UN is holding a special meeting with presenter countries to drum up abide for its cholera discourse and control functioning in Haiti. It says it has accepted less than half of the 175 million U.S. dollars it asks to carry out its life-saving broadcasts in the country. read more
By: Olukunle Odebo | 2010-02-06 | News and society The quake, which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale levelled all the major churches and seminaries in the Haitian capital, Pot-au-Prince.It also killed the Haitian Archbishop, Joseph Serge Miot, among read more
By: Margaret Besheer | 2010-01-26 | News and society U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (l) and Bill Clinton visit students at a school in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, 09 Mar 2009United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former U.S. President B read more
By: Magnus Jern | 2011-04-04 | Technology In the current smartphone hype everybody focuses on iOS, Android and HTML5 when speaking about mobile applications. Many might therefore wonder why Facebook would spend 70m USD on acquiring a company that delivers mobile apps based on Java ME (J2ME). read more
By: allenrobinson | 2011-03-24 | Reference & Education Benchmark West Texas Intermediate for May delivery rose $1.88 to stay at $104.97 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. At some point it had been as high as $105.18. In London, Brent crude gained 73 cents to at $115.64 per barrel. read more
By: Muhammad Haidar | 2010-04-01 | Credit Commercial Banks extend various types of credit facilities to their constituents, to enable them carry out their business activities. These facilities may be broadly divided into two categories-Funded and Non Funded facilities. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2010-07-28 | Economics Corruption is now recognized as one of the world’s greatest challenges. It is a major hindrance to sustainable development and is corrosive on the very fabric of society. Its disproportionate impact on poor communities is considerable, curbing economic growth, distorting competition, and representing serious legal risks. According to Transparency International’s latest corruption index, there are 75 of 180 countries surveyed scored under 3 on 10-point scale of governmental honesty. Corruption is a fixture in Egypt, India, and Pakistan. 60% of executives surveyed in these countries reported to have been solicited for a bribe. The Transparency International compiled multiple sources from World Bank assessments, the Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and surveys. The following lists most corrupt countries in the world. read more
By: Anthony W Bills | 2011-05-13 | College Agricultural land is vital to agrarian families and the population increase calls for more cultivable land to feed the people. The increasing commercialization of land as a trade market commodity has led to serious cases of landlessness for the people in Cambodia (Sophal and Acharya 2002). The livelihoods of approximately 85 percent of inhabitants in Cambodia depend on agriculture yet only a few i read more
By: Emily | 2010-10-19 | Reference & Education The U.S. Department of Education awards $10.9 million in 28 grants to fund Transition Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities and make higher education more accessible to students with disabilities. read more
By: Mike Kulej | 2010-03-04 | Investments Established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, the European Central Bank (ECB) is the institution of the European Union tasked with administrating the monetary policy of the 16 EU member states taking part in the Eurozone, thus becomes one of the world's most important central banks. read more