Asia's crisis hits women harder amid bias in APEC talks
Manila hosts a two day Pacific Rim event on women and jobs as officials report women face higher unemployment risk and lower credit access due to gender discrimination. Delegates urge abolition of bias and better workplace opportunities, with recommendations to APEC ministers.
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Asia
Bellaflor Castillo
Asia Pacific Economiction Forum
Kuala Lumpur
Rosario Manalo
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Manalo
Yeltsin cuts short Asia trip with illness
Russian President Boris Yeltsin halted a Central Asia visit due to a respiratory infection and fever, raising questions about his fitness to lead amid economic woes and NATO pressure over Kosovo. He returned to Moscow and said his illness would not sideline events for the week.
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Dmitry Yakushkin
Yevgeny Primakov
Kremlin
Gennady Zyuganov
Britain
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Tashkent
Islam Karimov
PRI Factions Clash Over Mexico’s Future Direction
Cancun AP report outlines a power struggle within the Institutional Revolutionary Party as reform moves fuel a split with governors like Quintana Roo’s Mario Villanueva and Puebla’s Manuel Bartlett warning of conflict. The fight tests PRI’s 70 year rule ahead of 2000 elections and pits modernization against old-guard personal politics.
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Institutional Revolutionary Party
PRI
Mario Villanueva
Quintana Roo
Villanueva
Manuel Bartlett
Puebla
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