The UN has warned that it has no more money to keep global malnutrition at bay and predicts further shortages amid concern at rising food prices.How can the poor cope and what is the world doing about it?
We discuss the up coming elections in Malaysia. Although the party of current prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to win the key question may be whether or not the balloting will be free and fair and if the country’s more than 10 million registered voters will turn out. Widespread reports of ‘phantom voter lists’ coupled with a virtual media blackout of opposition candidates has raised speculation that disaffected Malaysians may opt out all together.
The UN has warned that it has no more money to keep global malnutrition at bay and predicts further shortages amid concern at rising food prices.
How can the poor cope and what is the world doing about it?
We discuss the up coming elections in Malaysia.
Although the party of current prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to win the key question may be whether or not the balloting will be free and fair and if the country’s more than 10 million registered voters will turn out.
Widespread reports of ‘phantom voter lists’ coupled with a virtual media blackout of opposition candidates has raised speculation that disaffected Malaysians may opt out all together.
The two remaining challengers for the US Democratic Party’s presidential nomination have faced off in their first one-on-one televised debate.Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton traded a mix of polite exchanges and pointed swipes before what’s known as Super Tuesday, when more than 20 US states vote for their preferred presidential candidates.Mike Kirsh reports.