Egyptian NGOs hoping for greater freedoms and more space to operate after the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s government say they have encountered just the opposite: an unprecedented clampdown by the post-revolution military rulers.
THAILAND: Disaster “is imminent and inevitable”
| October 31, 2011
The equivalent of 160,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools (400 million cubic metres of water) is set to run through Thailand’s capital, which can only drain a small fraction daily, according to the government’s flood relief operation centre on 26 October.
