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Thu, 08 Apr 2010
Vietnam, Association of Southeast Asian Nations president for 2010, hosts the 16th and 17th summits of the organization. The 2010 theme is: Towards the ASEAN Community: from vision to action. Vietnam, which is not a party to the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect on 1 Jan 2010, might find the need to be mediator as well as host. The FTA was not welcomed everywhere in the bloc.
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Mon, 05 Apr 2010
Sudan has set a date for voters to choose a national president, a Southern Sudan president, governors of the country's 25 states, a National Assembly, the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly and state assemblies. If it is not derailed, this first multi-party election in Africa's largest country in 20-plus years will represent a monumental achievement. A civil war legacy, ongoing conflict, census disputes and logistical challenges threaten the poll.
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Mon, 05 Apr 2010
A Los Angeles court begins hearings in the case of Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with Michael Jackson's death from a lethal cocktail of prescription painkillers and anesthetics on 25 Jun 2009. Murray has pleaded not guilty. Jackson family members and many Jackson fans are upset that Murray was not charged with murder. The fans are certain to mount protests outside the court when the hearings begin.
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Sat, 03 Apr 2010
The Pony Express, the system of mail delivery by continuous horse and rider relays between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, started 150 years ago on Apr 3. The scant 19 months it lasted ranks as one of the most colourful episodes in the history of the American West. Hollywood has immortalized the service and some of its famed riders, who include William (Buffalo Bill) Cody and (Pony) Bob Haslam. The celebration includes a bigger-than-usual re-enactment over the 1995-mile route.
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Fri, 02 Apr 2010
Pope Benedict XVI could mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II with a memorial Mass and the beatification -- or the announcement of a 2010 date for the beatification -- of the Polish pontiff. Beatification is the first step towards sainthood. In Poland, a minute of silence, masses and prayers will mark the anniversary.
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Thu, 01 Apr 2010
The United States counts and gathers demographic information on its residents in 2010. Funding issues could throw the preparations and count into disarray. The US Census Bureau has extra funding for the operation, but says it is not enough. It has dropped some procedures from its plans, leading to worries about the accuracy of the results. Important decisions are rooted in the census, including the drawing of electoral districts and the allocation of some US $300 billion in federal funds.
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Thu, 01 Apr 2010
A mandatory national trading system for emissions of carbon dioxide that is related to energy consumption, rather than energy production, comes into effect in Apr 2010. Called the Carbon Reduction Commitment, it applies to non-energy intensive sectors not already covered by climate change agreements and the European Union Emissions Trading System. The threat of heat waves and floods with climate change has prodded the United Kingdom to push harder against the problem.
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Wed, 31 Mar 2010
Women in Abu Dhabi will soon have taxis available for their exclusive use and for their children under 10. The emirate's taxi regulator, TransAd, promised in January that a fleet of so-called ladies' taxis will be on the streets by the end of March. The 70 pink-and-lavender taxis will be driven by women. Women passengers had complained about taxi drivers trying to strike up unwanted conversations during a trip, according to reports about the new service in Zawya and The National.
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Thu, 25 Mar 2010
Profiles in History bills its March auction in Calabasas, California, as the "world's largest" collection of original vintage glamour photography. It includes iconic photographs and art prints of yesterday's and today's Hollywood stars by Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, George Hurrell, Man Ray, Herb Ritz, Harry Langdon, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and others. The stars include Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Angelina Jolie (at 15), Halle Berry, Cher, George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Thu, 25 Mar 2010
This first general European Union summit of the post-Lisbon Treaty epoch will be smaller than its predecessors. The first full-time EU president, Herman Van Rompuy, vows to shut ministers out of the meeting. He argues that leaders will accomplish more if they are eyeball-to-eyeball, a situation made possible by keeping summit numbers small. Economic growth and climate change will be summit priorities, with Haiti's needs a likely addition to the agenda. Demonstrators are expected.
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Mon, 22 Mar 2010
The scientists and engineers of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project hold their annual meeting in Manchester, and will continue discussing where to site the array. The candidates are down to two - South Africa and Australia. The announcement about the winner is due in 2011. Fifty times more sensitive than any other telescope and one of the most ambitious science projects ever, the SKA will give astronomers a way to look back to the Big Bang. Construction starts in 2014.
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010
Apartheid police gunned down unarmed protesters in the Transvaal township of Sharpeville on 21 Mar in 1960, killing 69 and injuring 180 others. The event popularly known as the Sharpeville Massacre is regarded as a watershed in the country's liberation struggle. The Pan Africanist Congress and African National Congress, both of which are in the news as houses divided, are likely to be leading the observances at Sharpeville and elsewhere on the 50th anniversary.
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010
Reuters reports that Russia plans to start up Iran's first nuclear power station to coincide with the Iranian New Year on 21 Mar. The agency's sources say testing is under way. Start-up dates for Bushehr have been set several times and have come to nothing. It remains to be seen whether the start-up, if it happens, escalates or cools Iran's dispute with the West over uranium enrichment. The United States and several other Western powers suspect Tehran of seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010
Much of the world is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, and countless parades and parties mark the occasion. Dublin plans to outdo the rest with a festival that lasts several days. New York's Empire State Building, the London Eye, the Sydney Opera House and the CN Tower in Toronto will turn green for the day, a colorful ad campaign for Ireland tourism. In Washington DC, leaders of Northern Ireland's main political parties will celebrate the day with President Barak Obama. They can count on applause.
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010
Oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meet to set quotas and to continue devising stragegies to address a reduced demand for oil in the producers' traditional markets. The Ministerial Monitoring Sub-Committee meets on Mar 16 to begin the process. The decisions are likely to reflect a new reality for oil producers - that China and other developing nations will lead both the global economic recovery and the demand for oil in 2010, not the world's richest countries.
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010
Melbourne hosts a meeting of trade ministers of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) at which the first formal round of negotiations for aspiring members of the bloc will be conducted. A regional free-trade agreement, the TPP started small with New Zealand, Singapore, Chile and Brunei Darussalam and entered into force in May 2006. Now the United States, Australia, Peru and Vietnam want to join it.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010
Colombia votes for Senate and House of Representative members on Mar 14. President Alvaro Uribe's high approval rating in his country is likely to keep the three parties in the right-leaning governing coalition on top, but Uribe's bid for a third term as president and a growing spying scandal could cut into the top parties' lead and help opposition parties increase their representation in the legislature.
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010
France's regional election will signal whether the French left is recovering. It overwhelmingly won the last regional elections, but lost the presidency in 2007 because of chronic internal squabbling: Nicolas Sarkozy, the candidate of the center-right Union for Popular Movement Party, defeated S gol ne Royal of the Socialist Party. If the left loses again, it will mirror a trend. Germany recently re-elected a right-leaning government, and Britain seems poised to elect a Tory government.
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010
The 15th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species brings together experts from participating countries to consider proposals for tighter trade controls on Atlantic bluefin tuna, polar bears, sharks, corals and elephant ivory. CITES meets every three years to change trade rules through amendments to the CITES Appendices. Controversially, Monaco wants the large tunas on Appendix 1, the category that prevents all commercial international trade in the species.
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010
Ministers of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference meet in Egypt for an International Donors Conference for the Development and Reconstruction of Darfur. The International Criminal Court at The Hague appears to have backed away from its efforts to see Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir behind bars for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Sudanese province of Darfur, possibly as a result of the OIC's opposition to the ICC arrest warrant for Al-Bashir.
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