Christian Science Monitor

26.05.2004 Media Lab Asia is a alliance between the Government of India and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which claims that innovative technology can reach poor people. But the devices supplied so far to health visitors are full price models.

26.05.2004 A group of Nairobi slum dwellers banded together and asked the city council to give them the land that they had been squatting on illegally. In return, they promised to build proper houses, schools, and community centers without any government money. It's the latest example of what experts say is becoming a model for slum improvement around the world.

24.05.2004 The peace and progress on the surface in Somer, one of the Baghdad neighborhoods most comfortable with US occupation and home to one of Iraq's most successful local councils, conceal big problems for the grass-roots institutions that US officials had hoped would be the building blocks for an unprecedented democratic culture inside Iraq.

21.05.2004 The United States has opened a new chapter in its relationship with South Korea by what some here see as a precipitous decision to pull a combat infantry brigade from the historic invasion route between North Korea and the teeming capital of South Korea 30 miles to the south.

19.05.2004 As the trial of the first soldier implicated in the prison abuse scandal starts Wednesday, the U.S. hopes to demonstrate to the Arab and Muslim world that American justice is “swift, transparent and intolerant of the kind of acts” the defendants are accused of.