Related eBooks Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”. She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the…Read More→
Authorities say they will take control of the supply of basic food items, including rice and sugar, and set prices in an attempt to control rising inflation. The Sri Lankan rupee has fallen by 7.5% against the US dollar this year. The wide-ranging emergency measures came into effect on Tuesday. A former army general has…Read More→
The director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, warned that more dangerous coronavirus variants could spawn if the US does not greatly increase the number of people who are vaccinated. He said that the US would “really be in trouble” if a variant with the same…Read More→
Australia saw a record daily number of new coronavirus cases this year on Saturday, with the country’s most populous states of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland recording a total of 361 cases of the highly infectious Delta variant. NSW suffered its worst pandemic day, reporting 319 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, with Sydney and…Read More→
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has approved the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to place the National Capital Region (NCR) under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) from August 6 to until August 20, 2021. According to IATF rules, indoor dine-in services and al fresco dining are prohibited. Only take-out and delivery are allowed. Beauty salons,…Read More→
Singer-turned-beauty and fashion mogul Rihanna is officially a billionaire, Forbes announced on Wednesday. Her net worth is now an estimated $1.7 billion — about four years after launching her successful beauty line, Fenty Beauty, making her the richest female musician in the world. It was her business — not her music career — that boosted her to…Read More→
Nuseir Yassin, also known as Nas Daily, is under fire online for allegedly exploiting Filipino culture. First was from the granddaughter of legendary tattoo artist Apo Whang-od, Gracia Palicas, who posted in a Facebook group “Tattooed by Apo-Whang-od” that Yassin’s Whang-od Academy for Tattooing is fake. “Warning! Whang-od Academy is a scam,” she wrote on Wednesday….Read More→
One in 2 Indian Americans say they have encountered discrimination in the U.S. in the last year, according to a new study. Colorism against darker-skinned people is the most common form of bias encountered, according to respondents, and the main perpetrators are non-Indian. The report, released Wednesday by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, drew on…Read More→
Myanmar has endured more than five decades of military dictatorship, beginning in 1948 when the country gained independence from British rule. The nation temporarily transitioned to civilian leadership in 2011. Under the civilian rule, repression loosened. More women were elected to the parliament in the last elections than in the prior election. Extreme in their chauvinistic ideology, police…Read More→
One in five Chinese-Australians have reported being attacked or physically threatened because of their heritage in the past year, a think tank report said. Respondents told the Lowy Institute survey that the COVID-19 pandemic and Australia’s diplomatic disputes with China have contributed to their treatment. About a third of people surveyed said they were treated differently or less favorably because of…Read More→
