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A taste of things to come for subsistence coffee farmers in Timor-Leste
- Asia-Pacific
- October 23, 2013, 01:01
Armindo de Deus has worked all his life as a coffee farmer in the Ermera district of Timor-Leste. He is a wiry, weather-beaten man with darting, milky(...)

World Bank agrees investment in ‘fragile’ countries
- Financial Services
- October 13, 2013, 12:41
The World Bank’s 188 member countries endorsed a strategy that president Jim Yong Kim says should enable the lender to better respond to clients’ need(...)

Austerity brings Portugal’s new poor to the table as soup kitchens overwhelmed
- Europe
- October 12, 2013, 01:01
Mário Silva and his partner, Elisa Teixeira, sit eating vegetable soup and bread in a cheerily decorated charity restaurant in the seaside city of Mat(...)

Cantillon: Achtung Bono – Our tax rate on world stage
- Ireland
- September 26, 2013, 01:00
Is Bono IDA Ireland’s biggest nightmare?Richard Boyd Barrett may want to bring some multinational executives into Leinster House to give them a Margar(...)

Taliban suspected as top Afghan policewoman murdered
- Middle East
- September 16, 2013, 13:35
Southern Afghanistan’s top policewoman has died after being shot in an ambush, months after her predecessor was murdered.Her death, one of the latest (...)

Former minister Dick Roche acting as biofuels lobbyist for Hungarian firm
- Environment
- July 11, 2013, 01:00
Former minister for the environment Dick Roche has been lobbying MEPs on behalf of a Hungarian ethanol producer ahead of a European Parliament decisio(...)

Council to vote on charity shop ban
- Social Affairs
- July 1, 2013, 01:00
Charities will learn tonight whether they are to be banned from opening shops that fund their work on Dublin’s Grafton Street.Dublin city councillors (...)

Rallies in Belfast call for G8 leaders to abandon austerity and help world’s starving
- Politics
- June 17, 2013, 01:00
Protesters have rallied at Belfast’s City Hall against the agenda of the G8 leaders who assemble in Co Fermanagh on Monday and Tuesday.The protest, o(...)

G8 protesters to shout out loudly for a fairer world
- News
- June 13, 2013, 01:00
“Shout loudly, don’t hold back, lift your voice like a trumpet” – not the words of an anarchist group or anti-G8 street activist. The call to protest (...)

Apple controversy underlines need for more debate on corporate tax
- World
- May 25, 2013, 02:00
Sovereign states struggling to adjust fiscal capacity to highly mobile capital in a period of recession have thrust the issue of corporate taxa(...)