PHNOM PENH, June 7, 2010 (IPS) - Yuen Mach sat on the floor of her wooden home, her hands nervously twisting a stalk of lemongrass into fibrous strands.

NEW YORK, Jun 5, 2010 (IPS) - In a vast field, a sinewy, dark-skinned man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. In a village, a mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic.

GENEVA, Jun 4, 2010 (IPS) - Although the issue of an early harvest for least developed countries (LDCs) has been raised time and again, there remains "a certain reluctance" to prioritise it in the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks, according to South African trade minister Dr Rob Davies.

KINSHASA, Jun 3, 2010 (IPS) - Floribert Chebeya, executive secretary of human rights group Voice of the Voiceless, was discovered dead in his car early in the morning of Jun. 2. Numerous journalists and human right activists have been killed in suspicious circumstances in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past five years.

Several civil society organizations at a rally in the city demanded that the Asia conference on global climate change which kicked off here on Sunday address vital issues without trying to establish donors control on the country''s climate fund, reports BSS.