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VIENTIANE, April 30 () -- More school children in rural Laos are to benefit from mid-morning school meals due to the latest 10 million U.S. dollars donation to the World Food Program (WFP) by the U.S. government, according to a WFP Press Release."On behalf of the American people, I am very pleased that this support is helping thousands of Lao children receive the nutrition they need to pursue their studies and reach their full potential," said the U.S. Ambassador to Laos Karen Stewart.The WFP's school meals program operates in remote provinces in northern and southern Laos, helping to feed children in more than 1,500 schools. The mid-morning snack and take-home rations of rice are provided by the program to break the cycle of stunting and malnutrition and serve as incentives parents to send their children to school.The aid was delivered in the form of 1,600 metric tons of rice, 556 metric tons of vitamin and mineral fortified Supercereal, and 110 metric tons of vegetable oil."School meals have been shown to be an effective way to encourage parents to send their children -- especially girls -- to school," said WFP Country Director to Laos Eri Kudo. "Education is vital to break the cycle of under-nutrition: educated children grow into adults who produce and earn more, and are more likely to be able to provide enough of the right food to their own children. "U.S. Ambassador Stewart, WFP Country Director to Laos Kudo and Laos' Vice Minister of Education and Sports Lytou Bouapao have visited schools in southern Saravane province last week to see the program in action.The rate of stunting in Laos is 40 percent, with levels as high as 50-60 percent in rural areas, which is one of the highest in the region. The WFP and the Lao government have agreed to jointly reduce the prevalence of stunting to 34 percent by 2015.
OSAKA, April 10 () -- Western Japanese city of Osaka decided Tuesday to propose a total abolition of nuclear power generation to the utility's corporate charter at the next shareholders meeting amid heightened public concern over nuclear power in Japan.The decision was made at a meeting participated by officials from both the Osaka City and the Osaka Prefecture on Tuesday afternoon.During the meeting, participants including Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui and some 10 top officials from both government offices, recognized the Osaka city, which takes 8.9 percent stake in Kansai Electric Power Company, the largest shareholder, to exercise its right to propose a total abolition of nuclear power generation at the earliest possible time while demanding to widely introduce renewable energy sources to replace the atomic power generation.The city will also demand the electric utility to cut the number of directors as well as employees. But it is uncertain whether the city can successfully write such words in the charter because at least two-thirds of shareholder's votes are required to revise the charter.Hashimoto stressed at the meeting that the city's proposals should make the electric utility follow "absolute" measures much based on rational calculations and the internationally-established standard to ensure the safety of the nuclear facilities if the electric company would keep the operation for the time being.Meanwhile, the participants decided to request for at least eight conditions for the company's Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, which is reported to restart the operation before the high peak summer season. Those include conclusion of "safety agreement" between the utility and its neighboring municipalities, local press said.Kansai Electric Power Company, which is supplying electricity in the whole Kansai region including big cities of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, produced nearly half of its electricity by nuclear power with 11 reactors before last year's March 11 Fukushima disaster, but it has so far shut down all of its nuclear reactors for safety checks.
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SANAA, Dec. 17 () -- UN envoy Jamal bin Omar left Yemen on Saturday after his seventh visit to Sanaa to follow up implementation of a UN resolution and a Gulf-brokered power transfer deal, state media reported."There is important development in the political situation in Yemen, where preparations are underway for early presidential elections on Feb. 21 next year and the joint military committee began its process to restore normality to the country," official SABA news agency quoted bin Omar as saying upon his departure."The obstacles must be overcome through dialogue and consensual understanding," said bin Omar, who is scheduled to present his report on Yemen to the UN Security Council on Dec. 19.Meanwhile, the Yemeni Military Affairs Committee headed by Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi began on Saturday morning to remove barricades and checkpoints of forces loyal to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the defected First Armored Division from the western part of Sanaa in line with the UN-backed initiative.The initiative was signed by Saleh and opposition leaders in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 23, which was designed to end the 11-month- long turmoil that brought the impoverished Arab state on the verge of a civil war and economic collapse.Under the deal, early presidential elections in Yemen are set to be held on Feb. 21, 2012, while Saleh retains the title of honorary president for 90 days before his resignation and enjoys immunity from prosecution afterwards.
DAMASCUS, Dec. 14 () -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree appointing Imad Mustafa, Syria's former ambassador to the United States, as ambassador to China, al-Watan newspaper said on Wednesday.Mustafa served his assignment in Washington from February 2004 to last month, when he was summoned back to Syria.The U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford returned to Damascus in early December after being away for six weeks over "security concerns."The Syrian-U.S. relations have hit a new low since the anti- government protests erupted in Syria in March.The United States, along with the European Union, has slapped several rafts of sanctions against Syria over alleged bloody crackdown on the protests.
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LOS ANGELES, May 9 () -- A group of mothers gathered Wednesday outside the Los Angeles Superior Court house to rally against the U.S. hardball tactics against drugs, calling for more therapeutic drug policies.Calling the U.S. war on drugs a failure, organizers said this was their way to mark Mother's Day in advance, hoping it could shift the focus to the failed U.S. war on drugs and bring about an end to discriminatory drug policies.The rally represented a different stance on the U.S. drug policies that focus mainly on punishment.Diane Goldstein, a retired police lieutenant who has two children, joined the mothers for the rally."As a mother, we want to save our children and protect them from drug dealers and cartels, but we are not doing (this) effectively through the harsh tactics of enforcement," she said.Treatment will be more cost effective and efficient than imprisonment, she said, adding that a complete regulation of illicit drugs is the solution.After announcing its war on drugs over forty years ago and spending billions of U.S. dollars every year, drug trafficking and use are still rampant in the United States.The federal government spent over 15 billion dollars in 2010 on the war on drugs, at a rate of about 500 dollars per second, the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy said.However, the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that more than 22 million Americans aged 12 and older -- nearly 9 percent of the U.S. population -- use illegal drugs.In 2010, 7 million people used psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical purposes, and 1.2 million people used hallucinogens, according to the study.An FBI crime report showed that more than 1.6 million people were arrested for drug offenses in 2010, which suggested there was a drug arrest every 19 seconds, 24 hours a day, every day.Not only mothers, but also some scholars have begun to discuss the possibility of legalizing drugs.A study for the Cato Institute estimated that legalizing drugs would save the government approximately 41.3 billion dollars annually on expenditures related to the enforcement of prohibition.The authors of the study, Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer on economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Cato, and Katherine Waldock, professor of economics at New York University, estimated that of that 41.3 billion dollars in savings, about 8.7 billion dollars would result from the legalization of marijuana alone and 32.6 billion dollars from the legalization of other drugs, like **** and heroin.The U.S. war on drugs has been fought mostly in Latin America. Yet the widespread view there is that the United States makes tough demands on its southern neighbors to combat drugs, but does little to reduce drug demand at home.Latin American leaders also argued that there is no evidence that military or criminal justice crackdowns can ever defeat what has essentially become a global commodities market.U.S. President Barack Obama, while running for the U.S. Senate in 2004, also agreed that the war on drugs has been an utter failure."We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws. We need to rethink how we're operating the drug war," he said.But in April this year when he was attending a summit of Latin American leaders, Obama made clear that he is not in favor of legalizing drugs or of ending policies that treat drug users as criminals."I don't mind a debate around issues like decriminalization," he said at the Cartagena summit. "I personally don't agree that's a solution to the problem."
SHENZHEN, Dec. 28 () -- Police in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen said Wednesday that they have arrested nine people who failed to pay a significant sum of wages to their employees.They were arrested in a crackdown, co-launched by the city's police and the human resources and social security bureau, in the latest move by the city to beef up the protection of migrant workers.The 50-day campaign started on Dec. 7, just ahead of the New Year and China's traditional Spring Festival, a time when most of the country's migrant workers in cities plan to claim their unpaid wages before returning to their hometowns.The nine employers, eight in police custody and one out on bail, have allegedly fail to pay over 8 million yuan (1.27 million U.S. dollars) to more than 780 workers, said the statement.In addition to the crackdown, police also talked to many employers and warned them not to withhold wages, it said.China has taken various measures to ensure that wages for migrant workers are paid.In February, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed an amendment to the Criminal Law to stipulate that malicious wage default is a crime, and employers who intentionally withhold pay face up to seven years in jail.In 2008 and 2009, amid the global financial crisis, the government enhanced efforts in cleaning up defaults, retrieving wages of 8.3 billion yuan and 8.9 billion yuan, respectively. Last year, the government retrieved 9.9 billion yuan for the workers.
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