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...Still, the skeptics remain, noting for example that the price tag of what was once billed as a $100 laptop is now closer to $200. Moreover, the original strategy of getting six of the largest developing countries - Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya - to commit to buying one million units stalled in August. The governments in China and India have also been resistant, convinced that they can do something similar on their own. Negroponte's response has been to open up the program to individuals and companies, launching in mid-November in the United States a "Give...
...Before Dowd’s speech, Alex S. Jones, the director of Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, awarded the third annual David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism to Washington Post reporter Dana Priest. In 2005, Priest broke the story about secret CIA prisons in Thailand, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe used to interrogate terror suspects. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006, she co-wrote a story earlier this year detailing the neglect of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. According to Jones, the Nyhan Prize was created to commemorate...
...shut the door and requested that plaintiff give him a massage and suddenly removed all his clothes,” the complaint said. Epstein allegedly commented on Cordero’s young age during their encounters over the next several months, even expressing his desire to take her to Thailand with him in order to “pick up other girls your age.” Epstein is currently facing unrelated charges in Florida for reportedly soliciting underage girls to his Palm Beach mansion and paying them to engage in sexual acts with him and with each other...
...There's certainly a degree of dark humor in Apichatpong's latest predicament. Frustrated, and with the domestic prints of Syndromes currently in police custody, he has found inspiration for his next project, a film about censorship in Thailand with the working title of Primitive. The only problem is that there's no guarantee anyone in Thailand will be able...
...That's a conclusion other developing countries have reached. Between 2001 and 2006, the amount of coal used worldwide to generate electricity grew by 30%, with China and India accounting for more than three-quarters of the increase, according to the WWF, which monitors global warming. Thailand and Malaysia, which switched to gas-fired power plants in recent years, are now turning back to coal. There's no shortage of investors. Despite objections from environmental groups, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) last month agreed to fund the $1 billion, 2,200-megawatt Mong Duong coal plant in northern Vietnam. Greenpeace...