Thursday 20 November 2008

Wednesday 19 November 2008

Crisis hits car industry

In times of crisis the car industry is one of the first hit. One thousand four hundred Renault workers have been laid off for two weeks from their factory in Cordoba. The credit crunch and its consequences have become the focus of conversations here.
  • ARGENTINA
    Crisis hits car industry
    In times of crisis the car industry is one of the first hit. One thousand four hundred Renault workers have been laid off for two weeks from their factory in Cordoba. The credit crunch and its consequences have become the focus of conversations here.
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  • AUSTRALIA
    Cedric: one devil to save them all
    A rare sort of cancer has killed almost half of Tasmania's devil population in more than 10 years. Recently, scientists have come across one specimen who seems immune to the disease, giving hope for the discovery of a vaccine.
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  • DR CONGO
    Children take up arms in North Kivu
    Armed with abandoned Kalachnikovs, young boys and girls have joined the fight against Laurent Nkunda's rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. FRANCE 24 correspondent Arnaud Zajtman met with 50 of these child-soldiers.
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  • AUSTRALIA
    Bulldozers vs. ecologists in Tasmania
    For a long time the Tasmanian forest was untouched but now bulldozers have started exploiting this huge stock of wood while environmental activists have started their own blockade of the loggers.
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  • BHUTAN
    Young King of Bhutan ushers in new era
    The new King of Bhutan, Jigme Wangchuk, was crowned on Nov. 6. An Oxford University graduate, he intends to maintain the Gross National Happiness standard his father introduced to measure the well-being of his people, while ushering in democracy.
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  • FOOTBALL - GHANA
    Africa's Feyenoord football academy
    As many as 600 kids from Africa travel to Europe each year hoping to get signed on by a European football club. Often they are brought over by unscrupulous agents. One Dutch club has taken a different approach and built its academy in Accra.
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  • ROMANIA
    Bucharest, planting the way to a greener city
    Almost two decades after the fall of communism, Bucharest is determined to recover its former glory. For the Romanian capital's city hall, encouraging newlyweds to plant trees is a good way to get there.
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