Nov 19th, 2008
By Miren Gutierrez*
ROME, Nov 19 (IPS) – The oil tanker Sirius Star may be the largest ship to have been hijacked so far, but piracy is far from rare. In all 251 such incidents worldwide have been reported this year to the Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau.For ship crew, sailing can [...]
Nov 18th, 2008
This year’s theme of IPS’s annual conference was the role of media in covering climate change and development. The conference took place in The Hague on Oct 23, with the auspices of Oxfam Novib and the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development of the
Netherlands. I took part of the discussions with a [...]
From 1990 until 1996, Miren Gutiérrez was based in Hong Kong as an EFE correspondent, covering the South East Asia, Korea and Pacific region, in charge of a group of contributors. She then spent five years in Panama in charge of the business section of La Prensa, the Panamanian newspaper of record. Miren coordinated or edited investigative business stories. Several of these stories were award-winners. A year of free-lancing in New York followed, writing for different media, such as El País, The Nation, UPI, Gatopardo and Offshore Alert. She covered the Sep. 11 attacks for El País. She joined IPS as Editor in chief in January 2003. She published her first novel in 2007.