Pandemic job losses and flooding spark fears of hard times in Bangladesh
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation After losing his job at a garment factory in Dhaka in April as the coronavirus pandemic hit, Mohammad Sumon returned to his village in Jamalpur, about 160 kms away, hoping to support his family working as a part-time mechanic. But severe floods that struck Bangladesh the last week of June, driven […]
Australia’s Victoria declares disaster, sets curfew to curb COVID-19
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria declared a state of disaster on Sunday and imposed a nightly curfew for the capital Melbourne as part of its harshest movement restrictions to date to contain a resurgent COVID-19. Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city already under a reimposed six-week stay-home order, has struggled to rein in the […]
US Congress probes Chinese Catholic bishop’s assumed death, religious freedom in China
Religion Unplugged Bishop James Su Zhimin, the Catholic Bishop of Baoding in Hubei Province, China, spent over 40 years in prison throughout the course of his life. He hasn’t been seen in 17 years, since he surfaced in a hospital in 2003. It has now been reported and is believed that Su is dead. The […]
Video games seen becoming a new frontier in digital rights
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Critical digital rights battles over privacy, free speech and anonymity are increasingly being fought in video games, a growing market that is becoming a “new political arena,” experts and insiders said last week. With the industry set to more than double annual revenues to $US300 billion by 2025, questions […]
Honduran minority fears for survival after leaders abducted
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation There has been no word of the five Black Honduran Indigenous men who two weeks ago were abducted at gunpoint from their homes in a coastal fishing village and then bundled into cars. The disappearance of the Garifuna leaders from the northern town of Triunfo de la Cruz is just the […]
COVID-19 impacts: Pandemic decimates livelihoods of Kenya’s Maasai
NITA BHALLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how Kenya’s Massai are being impacted by the coronavirus outbreak around the world…