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...Some locals reported having seen cracks in the banks of the dirt dam, built in the 1930s by the Dutch colonial government. "Indonesia's problem with spending money on maintenance has taken its toll," says Tom Shreve, president director of Glendale Partners, an infrastructure consulting firm. "The city has a lot to do in maintaining and improving infrastructure." The Indonesian government, which has responded to the disaster by sending police and soldiers to help clear the area, has acknowledged that more needs to be done to maintain and improve the country's creaky infrastructure. "This shows that we need...
Like most multinational corporations, Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch household-products giant, is feeling the sting of the global recession. But at least one part of Unilever's empire is doing fine. Several years ago, the company launched a corporate-social-responsibility (CSR) program, in which it hired thousands of Indian women to sell the company's soaps, detergents and other items in their home villages, most of them too small and remote to rate a visit from a Unilever sales representative. The program, called Shakti (Energy), was meant to aid some of the company's poorest customers...
...Staffed by both British and local judges, mixed commissions were anything but individualistic. Through a series of bilateral treaties with the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and American empires, Britain convinced states to cede sovereignty to Britain in its effort to crush the slave trade. Not only did these international tribunals charge foreigners with the task of judging domestic citizens, but they also worked in tandem with the Royal Navy as it seized illegal slavers on the high seas...
...students demanded that the hotspot's name be changed, something the Jakarta Legislative Council has agreed must be a prerequisite for the Buddha Bar to reopen. At the same time, Indonesian Corruption Watch, a local NGO, has raised questions about whether the dining lounge, which is located in a Dutch colonial building that was restored with public funds, is contravening a cultural-conservation regulation that prohibits historic buildings from being used for private gain...
...groups, which include Oxfam, CARE International and the Dutch and French branches of Doctors Without Borders, have been told to turn over bank account information and lists of their assets. Vanessa van Schoor, Sudan operational manager for MSF Holland, said government agents had begun seizing computers and scanners at the group's offices...