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Probe International has a new home!

Probe International
12/24/2010

Probe International has a new (and much improved) website! You can reach the website by clicking here, or you can type in http://journal.probeinternational.org in your browser. While we will continue to maintain this site, we will no longer be posting new content here. Thanks for all your support.

Brazil Coffee Will Trade at Double Discount of Others, ICE Says

Stuart Wallace
12/10/2010

The discount on Brazilian coffee will be more than twice that on the cheapest grades currently deliverable against ICE Futures U.S.’s arabica contract when it gets included from 2013, according to the bourse.  read more »


Foreign Aid

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Foreign aid discredits itself

Brady Yauch
10/05/2010

After recent evidence showed that China was receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid funds to fight diseases such as malaria that were almost non-existent in the country—and at the expense of other developing countries suffering thousands of deaths from these same diseases—there are new reports revealing that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that China is receiving billons of dollars in foreign aid each year. Many are now asking why, when China spends billions of dollars on lavish projects such as the 2008 Olympics and the Shanghai Expo, it deserves any aid at all.  read more »

Three Gorges Probe

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Celebrating dissent: Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace prize

Probe International
10/08/2010

In a move that has infuriated Chinese officials, the Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the jailed dissident writer and famous democracy advocate, Liu Xiaobo.  read more »


Odious Debts

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Going After Government Looters

Matthew Saltmarsh
06/11/2010

The government of the Maldives  wants its money back — $400 million to be precise.  read more »

Mekong Utility Watch

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Think twice before doing damage that will be irreversible

Editorial
09/30/2010

With wildlife habitat and cultural heritage at stake, dam projects on the lower Mekong River must be debated in public forums  read more »