Soundbite – The Week That Was
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SNAPSHOT: RED DEER STAG, ENGLAND
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Bamboo house for Manila slums wins top prize in future cities contest
Thomson Reuters Foundation The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has won a top international prize to design future cities in a rapidly urbanising world. Earl Forlales, 23, won the first prize from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in its […]
Music Soundbite – The TCM Update: Hillsong expand Christmas album
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Australian campaigners express disappointment that children still detained on Nauru despite passing of deadline this week
Groups campaigning for the release of all children from Nauru, where they have been living as a result of Australia’s offshore detention policy for asylum seekers, have expressed disappointment that there are still children detained on the island despite the passing of a deadline by which they’d hoped all would have been removed. The #KidsOffNauru […]
Two pastors among seven killed by Islamist militants in eastern DRC
World Watch Monitor Two Congolese pastors were among the seven Christians killed in attacks by an Islamist militant group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month. Six Christians, including Rev Kausa Kaule Yosua and his daughter, 27-year-old Masika, were killed in the 10th and 11th November attacks by members of the Allied Democratic Forces on […]
ETHICALLY-MADE: SLAVE-FREE JEANS SELL OUT ON ‘MARKLE SPARKLE’ BUT CAN COMPANIES BACK ETHICAL VOWS?
In the wake of a royal visit in which Meghan Markle’s “slave-free” jeans grabbed global attention, KIERAN GUILBERT, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts by companies like Outland Denim to produce ethically-made goods…