Indonesian President in damage control over new capital
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesia’s President is rushing to reassure investors and bureaucrats about his $US32 billion new capital city in a malaria-prone pocket of Borneo, after the resignations of two officials overseeing the plan raised fresh doubts about its future. President Joko Widodo’s announcement that he will start working next month from an office in […]
Updated: Tongans make contact with world as phone lines partially restored after tsunami; oil spill in Peru an “ecological disaster”
Updated: 10am (AEDT) Reuters Tongans could finally make phone contact with their families and the outside world on Thursday five days after a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami completely cut off the Pacific island nation. The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which has killed at least three people and sent tsunami waves across the […]
Postcards: “End is in sight” – tackling a rare disease in a global pandemic
EMELINE WUILBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Ethiopia on the fight to eradicate Guinea worm from water supplies…
Wow!: Preserve, revive, restore – Indian ponds spring back to life
ANURADHA NAGARAJ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from southern India on community efforts to restore water sources…