Dec 18 Chrysler, Ford Announce Plans to Shutter Plants By PBS News Hour Chrysler LLC is closing all 30 North American manufacturing plants for at least a month, the company's latest cost-cutting move as the big three auto makers struggle to stay afloat while waiting for a government decision on aid to the… Continue reading
Jun 30 WFP Reaches Deal to Expand Food Aid to North Korea as U.S. Wheat Arrives By PBS News Hour In a rare move, North Korea granted international aid workers from the United Nations' Word Food Program more access to expand efforts to ease a growing food crisis as the first U.S. ship filled with wheat arrived in a port… Continue reading
Jun 12 Donors Pledge $15 Billion for Afghan Rebuilding By Admin, PBS News Hour The international community pledged more than $15 billion in aid to Afghanistan at a donors' conference in Paris Thursday, while Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised to fight corruption that has hindered past aid efforts. Continue reading
May 30 Myanmar Cyclone Refugees Forced Out of Camps By PBS News Hour Myanmar's military government started evicting families from cyclone refugee camps on Friday, sending them to rebuild lives with bamboo poles and tarps. Continue reading
May 20 China Raises Death Toll, Struggles to Aid Homeless By PBS News Hour China raised the confirmed death toll from last week's earthquake in the Sichuan province to more than 40,000 Tuesday, with another 30,000 people still missing, as officials grappled to find shelter for some of the 5 million people displaced. Continue reading
May 16 Watch Aid Efforts Continue as China’s Quake Toll Rises The Chinese government revised the estimated death toll from the massive May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province to 50,000, as cleanup and rescue efforts continued. Continue watching
May 14 Helicopters Drop Food to Isolated Earthquake Survivors in China By PBS News Hour As the official death toll in China's massive earthquake neared 15,000 Wednesday, military helicopters dropped food and medicine to survivors who remained cut off in remote mountain villages. Continue reading
May 09 U.N. Resumes Aid to Myanmar Despite Junta Actions By PBS News Hour The U.N. World Food Program said Friday it would continue to send aid to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, despite the military government seizing the supplies at the airport in order to distribute the shipments on its own. Continue reading
May 06 Death Toll Surpasses 22,000 in Myanmar; Groups Poised to Rush in Aid By PBS News Hour Myanmar's government raised the death toll from the weekend's cyclone to more than 22,000 on Tuesday and said another 41,000 were missing, as aid groups awaited visas to bring supplies to the devastated Asian nation. Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch In Tuition Aid Rules, Immigration Debate Meets Reality As the immigration debate continues to evolve, some states are denying children of undocumented immigrants government grants and tuition loans offered to low-income students to help pay for college. Lee Hochberg reports on how undocumented students are coping. Continue watching