UNITED NATIONS: Asian governments must devote more funds to
preventing AIDS or face the risk that the disease could kill nearly
500,000 people each year across the continent by 2020, a United
Nations (UN) report says.
While the international spotlight has often
focused on AIDS in Africa, the study commissioned by the UN Program
on HIV/AIDS sounded the alarm about the impact of the scourge in
Asia. About 440,000 currently die from the disease each year in
Asia, the report said.
GENEVA: Biofuels are not only hurting poor consumers in Asia by
driving up crop prices, they are also failing to help the region’s
farmers who have not been able to adapt their production to cash in
on the boom, a United Nations report said on Thursday.
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted the late former
President Suharto in a civil corruption case, but ordered his
charitable foundation to repay more than $100 million in state
funds.
LOS ANGELES: Robin Williams’ Filipina wife has filed for
divorce from the Oscar-winning actor after a 19-year marriage, a
spokeswoman for the actor confirmed on Wednesday.
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