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Politicians back up the complaints. Says Ali Belo, chairman of the oil and gas committee of the Iraqi parliament: "Work on the field is negatively affecting their land and homes as well as the environment. The company has to either satisfy the residents by offering them jobs in, specially, guarding the facility and things like that, or expect that they won't be able to work safely...
...Fort Worth Star-Telegram is another big daily that competes with a larger paper in a neighboring market - in this case, Dallas. The parent of the Dallas Morning News, Belo, is probably a stronger company than the Star-Telegram's parent, McClatchy. The Morning News has a circulation of about 350,000, while the Star-Telegram has just over 200,000. The Star-Telegram will have to shut down or become an edition of its rival. Putting them together would save tens of millions of dollars a year...
...pest outbreaks hurt harvests. In the Philippines, where some 68 million people live on less than $2 a day, the government recently urged restaurants to halve their portions of rice. Credit Suisse estimates a shortage could cost the Philippines up to 1% of GDP in 2008. Manila resident Evelyn Belo, who waited in line for an hour last week to get a 110-lb. (50 kg) bag to feed her family of five, is feeling the pain. "It's very hard to feed my family already, and now we're worried that the rice will run out. I've started...
...Peace Studies degree at Antioch University in the U.S., tirelessly criss-crossed the globe, campaigning for an end to Indonesia's brutal annexation of his homeland. His passionate diplomacy eventually paid off. Six years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which up to 200,000 East Timorese are believed to have perished. (Hundreds more died as Indonesian troops withdrew...
...freer, there are many more places for companies to set up shop, and traditional advantages such as cheap labor or a lack of tariffs mean less and less in many industries. Multinationals are increasingly opening major operations in second- and third-tier cities - GlaxoSmithKline in Posnan, Poland, Google in Belo Horizonte, Brazil - places that plenty of people have never even heard of. "Companies are adopting an all-shore strategy," says Dennis Donovan, principal of Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting, which helps companies decide where to locate...