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- JMU and MAIC Join with Jordan to Train Weapons-removal Officials 20 Dec 2009 01:53 GMT
... Participants included representatives from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Iraq, Laos, Libya, Mozambique, Sudan and Vietnam. The U.S. Department ... Beecroft, JMU Vice Provost John Noftsinger, and United Nations Development Programme Country Director Jacinta Barrins, ...
- Dams and Development Threaten the Mekong (Yesterday) 19 Dec 2009 06:52 GMT
... village in northern Thailand, where Myanmar and Laos converge -- peers across the Mekong today at ... the world's tallest dam, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Laos is planning so ...
- Myanmar: UN reports 'worrisome' rise in opium cultivation 14 Dec 2009 15:41 GMT
... Myanmar: UN reports ‘worrisome’ rise in opium cultivation Opium ... a fall in yield per hectare, the United Nations anti-drug agency reported today. Opium hectares now ... produced in coordination with the governments of Laos and Myanmar. “Increased instability in north-eastern Myanmar is ...
- UN Reports Rise in Opium Cultivation in Burma 14 Dec 2009 17:01 GMT
... United Nations officials say opium cultivation in Burma ... growth. The agency's latest report covering Thailand, Laos and Burma says the area poppies are cultivated ...
- Myanmar: UN reports ?worrisome? rise in opium cultivation 14 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
... a fall in yield per hectare, the United Nations anti-drug agency reported today. Opium hectares now ... is going in the wrong direction," a UN Office on Drugs and Crime ( . ... produced in coordination with the governments of Laos and Myanmar. "Increased instability in north-eastern Myanmar is ...
- Experience Laos in Style 14 Dec 2009 17:34 GMT
... Laos, the country of millions elephants, wonderful landscapes, ... a World Heritage Site listed by the UNESCO. This enchanting city, dominated by golden-roofed temples ...
- LAOS-MYANMAR "Worrying trend" of rising opium poppy cultivation 14 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
... trend that may undo containment strategies, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns. Poppy ... cultivation is also on the rise in Laos, where farmers are struggling as commodity prices fall, according ...
- Laos exceeds South-East Asian Games target in gold medal tally 18 Dec 2009 06:50 GMT
... Manila - A volcano in the eastern Philippines Friday spewed more ... Rescuers from the Lebanese Army and the UN Maritime Task Force were searching Friday for more ...
- 'Now Is Time for Korea to Help Out' 16 Dec 2009 16:11 GMT
... development consultancy in the near future. All Laotian middle and high school students study with ... covers carry the two national flags of Laos and Korea, and words of gratitude. The ... Mission to the European Office of the United Nations and the Permanent Delegation to the international ...
- Slow Movement 18 Dec 2009 19:36 GMT
... abuses with little hope of redress. The United Nations estimates that by mid-2010 there will be ... numbers of migrants from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos have been subjected to severe restrictions on their ... international standards and: Sign and ratify the UN International Convention on the Protection of All ...
- Opium cultivation on the rise in Golden Triangle 14 Dec 2009 08:00 GMT
... cent this year as soaring prices in Laos and political instability in Myanmar drew more farmers ... farmers to the illicit poppy crop, a United Nations report revealed Monday. Cultivation increased to 33,811 ... acreage under cultivation in the region, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) now ...
- Dams and Development Threaten the Mekong (Today) 18 Dec 2009 09:04 GMT
... village in northern Thailand, where Myanmar and Laos converge -- peers across the Mekong today at ... the world's tallest dam, according to the United Nations Environment Program. Laos is planning so ...
- Dams and Development Threaten the Mekong 17 Dec 2009 16:11 GMT
... miles through portions of , Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before emptying into the South ... threat, warns a series of by the United Nations, environmental groups and academics. The most ...
- U.N. Says Opium Trade Is Expanding in Myanmar 14 Dec 2009 10:10 GMT
... used to cultivate opium, officials from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said ... area near the borders with Thailand and Laos was the world's largest supplier of heroin. The ...
- Burma opium cultivation up, but yield down 14 Dec 2009 12:27 GMT
... despite production of the narcotic falling, the United Nations drugs office has said. “The trend is ... said Antonio Maria Costa, chief of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), ahead ... Afghanistan and as we do it in Laos. We have helicopter surveys combined with ground surveillance”. ...
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