Al-Ahram Weekly | International News

An ethnic Albanian woman from Kosovo waits to be seen by a doctor under a tent in a refugee camp
(photo AFP)

What is victory?
There can be no resolution to the Kosovo crisis without the consent of Moscow and Beijing, writes Hoda Tawfik in Washington

Rugova at large
The arrival of the Kosovar president in the West has raised questions about Serb attempts to engineer a split in ethnic Albanian ranks. Samia Nkrumah reports from Rome

Yeltsin triumphs yet again
Russia's premier-designate was overwhelmingly approved by the country's lawmakers, despite their fury at the president's decision to fire his predecessor, writes Abdel-Malek Khalil from Moscow

Malaysian malaise

Popular unrest over the prison sentence handed down to Malaysia's former deputy prime minister threatens to derail the government's strategy for economic recovery, writes Mohamed Khaled

News from Namibia

Apartheid's bitter legacy still haunts Namibia's indigenous African majority. Yet President Sam Nujoma remains upbeat. While on a visit to Cairo he spoke to Gamal Nkrumah

A CAMBODIAN boy sifts through street refuse and plastic rubbish bins, in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.

Selling items such as used plastic bottles and food cans is for many thousands of street children in Phnom Penh the only way to survive.

For millions of street children throughout the world, and especially in the developing countries of the South, there is little or no hope for improved living standards under the current Asian economic crisis. The plight of street children is worsening in many Asian countries such as Indonesia and Thailand