Hungry, stranded and broke: Coronavirus travel bans hit migrant workers
Kathmandu, Nepal/Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Dinesh Bhandari spent two days travelling by bus from his village in rural Nepal to Kathmandu to get a permit to take up the factory job he had been promised in Malaysia. When he reached the Nepali capital, he found the door to the recruitment agency was locked. A note […]
YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe due to coronavirus
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avert internet gridlock as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to working from home. YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to […]
CORONAVIRUS IMPACT: NEW YORK’S BOWERY MISSION ADAPTS HOMELESS MINISTRY TO CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONS
KATELYN BEATY, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how New York’s Bowery Mission is changing its operations to ensure it can continue its aid to the marginalised…
SIGHT-SEEING: A NEW YORK PERSPECTIVE – HOW CHURCHES CAN ADAPT IN A TIME OF LOCKDOWNS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
MARCUS CHEONG, writing from New York City, draws on his own experience at C3 Church Manhattan to talk about how churches can adapt to an online environment as the coronavirus pandemic causes shutdowns across the world…
Privacy fears as India hand stamps suspected coronavirus cases
Mumbai/Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation People suspected of having the coronavirus in India have received hand stamps and are being tracked using their mobile phones and personal data to help enforce quarantines, raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance. The outbreak, termed COVID-19, has infected more than 234,000 people worldwide and killed nearly 10,000, according to […]