By Lesley Wroughton

World Bank President Robert Zoellick urges other donor nations to make good on their aid pledges.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Brazil became the first contributor to a reconstruction fund for Haiti on Tuesday and World Bank President Robert Zoellick urged other donor

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Haitian economist Camille Chalmers says the “sale will be the enrichment of Viettel”.

On April 29 the Vietnamese telecommunications company Viettel formally acquired 60% of the shares in Haiti’s state-owned phone company, Télécommunications d’Haiti (Haiti

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Grammy Award–winning musician Wyclef Jean and his wife Claudinette Jean speak to the students of Seton Hall University and thank them for volunteering their time to help at the Yéle Haiti Foundation Volunteer Center in South Orange, NJ. Wyclef and 300 or so

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By Warner Todd Huston

Sea Voyager, one of two lavish cruise ships which houses U.N.’s World Food Program relief workers in Haiti, cost of leasing the ships: $112,500 a day.

In another perfect example of why the United Nations is a complete waste of time and should be eliminated as useless, news has emerged that the UN’s $732.4 million Haitian relief

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On the night of April 15-16 the Haitian Senate approved an 18-month extension of the state of emergency that President René Préval decreed after a Jan. 12 earthquake killed some 230,000 people and devastated the capital area. The “emergency law,” which had been

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