OPEN BOOK – THE PRISONER’S LETTER: “SLEEPERS, WAKE UP!”
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at Ephesians 5…
Special report – Expose reveals child labour in Cambodian brick kilns despite crackdown
Phnom Penh, CambodiaThomson Reuters Foundation Cambodian children are working in brick kilns across the country despite a recent government declaration that all furnaces were free of child labour following a state crackdown, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expose has found. Kiln visits by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a soon-to-be-released survey by the workers union, and interviews […]
Australia’s most populous state says fires contained for the first time in nearly six months
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Fires across Australia’s most populous state are now contained for the first time in nearly six months, authorities said on Friday, as heavy rains aid firefighters and boost some dam levels to their highest in nearly two years. Australia has been battling hundreds of blazes since September in an unusually prolonged summer wildfire […]
Spike in China virus cases doesn’t show big shift in epidemic – WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The spike in cases reported from China reflects reclassifying a backlog of suspect cases using patients’ chest images and not necessarily the “tip of an iceberg” of a wider epidemic, a top World Health Organization official said on Thursday. Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s health emergencies programme, said that more than 13,300 cases […]
TRENDSPOTTER: THE FOUR DAY WORKING WEEK
DAVID ADAMS looks at the idea of the four day working week…
Soundbite – The TCM Update: Rend Collective touring Downunder…
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White supremacist propaganda on US college campuses doubled in 2019 – report
RNS White supremacist groups doubled down on colleges and universities across the country in 2019, blanketing campuses and off-campus haunts with propaganda, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The report found a total of 2,713 cases of leafleting on and off campus – an average of more than seven per day […]
Trees alone can’t win fight against soaring heat, cities warned
Abu Dhabi, UAEThomson Reuters Foundation Popular projects to plant more trees and expand green space in cities may not protect residents from soaring and often deadly heat unless the efforts target those most in need of relief and bring communities closer, researchers and policymakers said. As record numbers of people move into urban areas, cities […]
Half of top businesses lack commitment to prevent supply-chain deforestation – report
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly half of the 500 top global companies and investment firms that produce, use or finance commodities posing a threat to forests have made no public commitment to prevent deforestation in their supply chains, researchers said on Wednesday. Swathes of tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin and in parts of South-East […]
Updated: Coronavirus death toll leaps in China’s Hubei province
Updated: 12.15pmBeijing, China/SingaporeReuters The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday, as global health experts warned the epidemic could get far worse before it is brought under control. Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on […]