Although aid still arrives in Haiti, the money starts to influence the pace of rescue of the people under the rubbles. In addition to this claim goes that the United States has suspended its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay for their care is settled, military officials said. -The military flights, usually C-130s, carrying Haitians with spinal cord injuries, burns and other serious wounds, ended after Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida formally asked the federal government to shoulder some of the costs of the care. Other states have taken patients, too, and those
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It happened, and the worst doubts have come to pass. The smugglers take the opportunity to earn money by smuggling children from Haiti. On January 27th we posted the article entitled “Adopting Haitian children – does it help?”, explaining why the adoption of orphans may not be such a good idea. The failed attempt by the New Life Children Refuge to take 33 Haitian children into the Dominican Republic has shed the light on the activities of groups that disregard the rules of international adoption. Haitian authorities are justifiably feared that chaos emerged due to the devastating earthquake on January 12th, which killed
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A look back of the state of affairs in Haiti from the first black republic to today. Collection of video explaining the current state of affairs in Haiti. Haiti is currently suffering from with rampant cholera and over 800,000 Haitian living in tent cities as result of devastating earthquake.

One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much  of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those  most in need. In fact, the nation’s tragedy has served as an opportunity  to further enrich corporate interests.The details of a recent lawsuit, as reported by  Business Week, highlights the ways in which contractors – including some  of the same players who profited from Hurricane Katrina-related  reconstruction – have continued to use their political connections to  gain profits from others’ suffering, receiving contacts worth tens of  millions of dollars while the Haitian people receive pennies, at best.  It also demonstrates ways in
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Opposition activists in Georgia are calling for a mass gathering in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. This follows a crackdown by Georgian police on a rally in front of one of the police stations.

It is well known that online content providers in China have to follow censorship instructions from various government authorities. However, with the rise of private public relation company, there is an increasing censorship pressure from the private sector. Some of them pay the websites to delete content, some retreat to hacking. On January 26 2011, Bokee.com published an open letter to its users informing them that the website was hacked after they had refused to delete an article. The hacker contacted Bokee.com via QQ chat on 25 of January and demanded the website to delete an open letter posted on August 16 2006
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