Measuring Democracy - Reports by the International Press Institute - Artur Victoria Studies
The International Press Institute is the organization that is operating as the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists The focus of organization work is the enhancement of professionalism and journalist standards and the media freedom

UNESCO Vote a Sign of Equatorial Guinea's Active Foreign Policy
Nation has been slowly raising its profile through engagement, humanitarian aid, exchanges MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week's UNESCO vote to institute a $3 million prize for biological research sponsored by the government of Equatorial Guinea was a sign of that nation's increasingly active—and successful—foreign policy. Equatorial Guinea offered to fund a prize to promote studies related to the most important health problems affecting Africa, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS, in 2008.

Measuring Democracy - Reports by the Committee to Protect Journalists - Artur Victoria Studies
The Committee to Protect Journalists is a non-profit organization established with the aim to protect the press freedom around the world There is not much information available on who the members of organization are and whether it has regional affiliates apart from its central office in New York

Sino-Forest Announces Resignation of Auditor
TORONTO, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company") (TSX: TRE) announced today that Ernst & Young LLP ("E&Y") has notified the Company that it has resigned as the Company's auditor effective April 4, 2012.  In its resignation letter to the Company, E&Y noted that the Company had not prepared December 31, 2011 consolidated financial statements for audit and that, in the Company's March 30, 2012 filing under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Sino-Forest said that it remained unable to satisfactorily address outstanding issues in relation to its 2011 annual financial statements. Sino-Forest intends to issue a press release containing the information required by ...

Travel Tanzania - Yellow Fever Vaccination For Visitors To Tanzania Is Mandatory! To Whom?
Recently, the Government of the Republic of Tanzania, through the Ministry of Social Welfare, issued a notification that the Health Surveillance Desks, which were abolished way back in the year 2001, will be reinstated in all entry points - border posts, ports and international airports Tanzania happens to be among the countries that are at risk of being affected by the yellow fever

Sino-Forest Common Shares to be Delisted from Toronto Stock Exchange
TORONTO, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Sino-Forest Corporation ("Sino-Forest" or the "Company") (TSX:TRE) announced today that the Continued Listings Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has determined to delist the Company's common shares effective at the close of market on May 9, 2012. The delisting was imposed due to Sino-Forest's failure to meet the continued listing requirements of the TSX as a result of the commencement of proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act on March 30, 2012 (the "CCAA Proceedings") and for failure to file on a timely basis its interim financial statements for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 and its audited annual financial statements for the ...

International Cost of Living Ranking April 2010
The rank of the overall international cost of living indexes is reported as at April 2010 using New York as the base city The indexes are calculated using the prices for specific quantities of the same goods and services in each location, based on expatriate spending patterns across 13 broad categories (Basket Groups)