Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal puts profit over people: Labor activists
Labor activists worry that a U.S.-led free-trade deal under negotiation will prioritize corporate profits over workers’ rights and pressure governments to bow to the will of investors. Trade ministers from the 12 nations negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which would stretch from Japan to Chile and cover 40 percent of the world’s economy – […]
Russian ‘Missile parts’ at Malaysian MH17 passenger jet crash site
Fragments of a suspected Russian missile system have been found at the Flight MH17 crash site in Ukraine, investigators in the Netherlands say. They say the parts, possibly from a Buk surface-to-air system, are “of particular interest” and could help show who was behind the crash. But they say they have not proved their “causal […]
Shocking Images Of A Young Bangladeshi Girl Attacked With Acid By Her In-Laws
These are the devastating injuries inflicted on a young Bangladeshi woman who was allegedly forced to swallow acid because her father could not afford to pay her dowry. Ripa Rani Pandit has been left with permanent facial scars and horrific internal injuries after being tortured with the burning liquid as part of an alleged eight-month […]
China orders the merger of COSCO and China Shipping, creating the worlds 4th largest Shipping Container Line
The government of China has reportedly ordered the merger of two of the country’s largest state-owned shipping companies – China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco) and China Shipping Group – to try to jointly tackle a slump in the industry, according to South China Morning Post. According to an executive from Cosco Group, the two companies […]
China launches campaign to purify the web and strip it of amateur sex videos
Following the circulation of various videos of questionable taste on Chinese social media, China’s top anti-pornography office is launching a campaign to purify the web and strip it of amateur sex clips. Arguing that the videos are a threat to social decency, moral standards, and law and order, the Office Against Pornography and Illegal Publications […]
China makes knock off Range Rover and is selling it at a third of the price of the real thing
The Range Rover Evoque is a major cog in Jaguar Land Rover’s expansion into China. Last week, a speed bump in JLR’s China plan appeared in showrooms in the form of the Landwind X7. This is because — aesthetically — the X7 is a virtually indistinguishable from the Evoque. And it looks like the Chinese […]
Dutch survivor of Japanese concentration camp calls for recognition of history
For Berthe Korvinus, a 77-year-old Dutch woman who spent more than four years of her early childhood in Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia, her experiences during the war have become a driving force to fight for justice for all victims. “In the year marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, I […]
China, U.S. And Russia Developing Controversial Military Programs To Wage War In Space
The world’s most worrisome military flashpoint is arguably not in the Strait of Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Iran, Israel, Kashmir or Ukraine. In fact, it cannot be located on any map of Earth, even though it is very easy to find. To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no-man’s-land of […]
Malaysia Prime Minister Suspected Of Manipulating MH370 Plane Crash News To Save Himself
Would a government manipulate news of a devastating plane crash in an attempt to save its political skin? No one is directly accusing Malaysia of doing that. But Prime Minister Najib Razak’s crisis-plagued government’s controversial utterances about the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crash investigation have left some here wondering. Three days after Razak’s middle-of-the-night announcement […]
Pakistan’s biggest child pornography ring exposed by journalist
Punjab’s Child Protection Bureau has disclosed country’s largest child pornography ring, in which 400 videos have been confiscated featuring more than 280 children being sexually exploited. The Nation published the report of organised child sex exploitation, which has shocked the nation. According to the report, most of the victims were under 14 years of age. […]