Young man in Tanzania is drowned due to the failure to pay the “poll tax” amounting to Tshs.5000.00 (about US$ 6), reports ForDIA- Kagera.

New strategies for developing newspaper advertising revenues and market share will be featured in a major session of the World Newspaper Congress in Hong Kong (3-6 June 2001). As the growth in global advertising slows, the session will focus on how newspaper companies can exploit their unique strengths to win more advertiser budgets.

News and comment on South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel Report.

Environmental pressure groups who say that eco-tourism has failed on the basis of its own principles, are advocating for a speedy review of the concept if the world's biodiversity is to be preserved and mounting poverty alleviated.

New information and new resources from the Foundation Center, Washington, DC.

The premier index to Family and Social Welfare topics FREE ACCESS over the Internet until April 30, 2001. Family & Society Studies Worldwide is a core resource in NISC's series of databases on family and gender related topics. FSSW is useful for social workers, marriage & family counsellor, family practitioners, social scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizations & services dedicated to the Family -- a "must have" for any degree granting institution in these fields.

Nature has initiated an online debate of the impact of the Web on publication of original research and the complex issue of free access.

Grant opportunities from the World Bank to assess e-readiness. The grants are offered to governmental institutions. Deadline for submitting proposals is May 1st.

Will the information-rich get richer and the information-poor get poorer? Will the divide shrink, or expand? The question might also be phrased in terms of the education-rich and the education-poor. The latter category includes some 200 million children who do not complete their primary education.

The Bush administration is putting forward alternative guidelines for a new international global warming agreement, it was reported yesterday, as it finds itself increasingly isolated on the world stage for its rejection of the Kyoto treaty.

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