China and Africa…Not exactly peanut butter and chocolate yall…

Why the west fears China in Africa

November 16, 2009, 4:17pm

Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - ‘Secret’ Taliban talks under way

Western officials, the Afghan government and Taliban-linked mediators have been engaged in secret negotiations to bring elements of the group into Afghanistan’s political process, Al Jazeera has learned.

February 26, 2009, 3:55pm

India moves to protect traditional medicines from foreign patents | World news | guardian.co.uk

In the first step by a developing country to stop multinational companies patenting traditional remedies from local plants and animals, the Indian government has effectively licensed 200,000 local treatments as “public property” free for anyone to use but no one to sell as a “brand”.

February 22, 2009, 10:49am