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Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access.

Mobile-phone access will soon be universal. The next task is to do the same for the internet

The A.T. Kearney/FOREIGN POLICY Globalization Index is an annual study that assesses the extent to which the world's most populous nations are becoming more or less globally connected. Find out who's up, who's down, and who's the most global of them all.

"Want to find the hidden center of the global economy? Take a drive along Taiwan's Sun Yat-sen Freeway. This stretch of road is how you reach the companies that connect the vast marketplaces and digital powerhouses of the U.S. with the enormous manufacturing centers of China."

BBC site covering the Bhopal disaster

"Welcome to the blacklist, below you will find a list of companies you should never buy products from and plenty of reasons why. There are also links to more detailed information and lists of known subsidiaries"

Third world debt is a huge problem! Debt is ruining the lives of people, towns, and whole nations. People are suffering from the lack of funds to buy basic necessities.

A new high-speed undersea cable connecting East Africa with the rest of the world is poised to go live, Kenya's top internet official has told the BBC.

See how the global broadband network has grown rapidly