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Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years

Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years

ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial. The email from Exxon’s […]

Kim Jong-un ‘executes manager of terrapin farm for failing to supply food and water to the tanks’

Kim Jong-un ‘executes manager of terrapin farm for failing to supply food and water to the tanks’

Furious despot Kim Jong-un executed the boss of an aquarium after several dozen baby turtles starved to death, according to reports. The North Korean tyrant was seen angrily wagging his finger at staff during a visit to the terrapin farm earlier this year in pictures released by the state media. He launched into a tirade […]

Islam gaining popularity among young Chinese, govt not pleased

Islam gaining popularity among young Chinese, govt not pleased

Religion has a robust following among China’s younger generation despite the country’s rule by the officially atheist Communist Party. A report released Tuesday found religion followers in China are younger, with Islam having the most followers among the under-30 set. China recognizes only five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam. Islam has the largest […]

Musical crime: Interrogated for playing the wrong tune

Musical crime: Interrogated for playing the wrong tune

Fifteen years ago, Kim Cheol-woong was a successful pianist living in North Korea – but his life suddenly changed when someone heard him playing a Western love song. Cheol-woong sat down at his piano in 2001 to practise the piece of music he planned to play when he proposed to his girlfriend. Childhood sweethearts, they […]

Amos Yee sentenced to 4 weeks in jail

Amos Yee sentenced to 4 weeks in jail

Amos Yee has been sentenced to four weeks imprisonment, for charges relating to creating a video criticizing Lee Kuan Yew. He will serve one week for posting obscene materials and three weeks for wounding the religious feelings of Christian in his video calling Lee Kuan Yew a “horrible person”, and the sentenced is to be […]

Over 24 people with ties to India’s $billion exam scam have mysteriously died

Over 24 people with ties to India’s $billion exam scam have mysteriously died

Nobody knows exactly when or why the witnesses and small-time crooks caught up in one of India’s biggest corruption scandals began dying under mysterious circumstances. But in the past two years, that’s what’s happened to more than two dozen people implicated in a $1 billion test-rigging scheme. Even by standards in India, where corruption is […]

Сhina’s influence grows as Russia’s economic meltdown rocks Central Asia

Сhina’s influence grows as Russia’s economic meltdown rocks Central Asia

At a bazaar in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, once a far-flung outpost of the Soviet Union, cheap goods from neighbouring China are helping offset the pain caused by Russia’s economic meltdown. As low world prices for Russian energy exports and Western sanctions over Ukraine stir economic trouble in Russia, Tajikistan has seen its national somoni currency […]

China Building Two Untested Nuclear Reactors In Pakistan

China Building Two Untested Nuclear Reactors In Pakistan

Pakistan has agreed to the construction of two nuclear reactors in Karachi, a coastal city in a tsunami-prone zone. After the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, scientists and civil society activists are asking why. Pakistan’s largest city and financial hub has given China a green light to build two nuclear power stations on a beach […]

China Steals Territories From Philippines And Ignores International Tribunal

China Steals Territories From Philippines And Ignores International Tribunal

China is standing pat on its decision to reject arbitration by an international tribunal that will begin formal hearings this week to resolve a long-seething feud between Beijing and Manila over the South China Sea, the Chinese ambassador to Manila said Monday. The five-member tribunal starts hearings in The Hague on Tuesday to address China’s […]

24 Elephant Calves Sold To China By Zimbabwe

24 Elephant Calves Sold To China By Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has shipped 24 elephant calves to China, in a move that has angered animal rights groups who described the export as “extremely cruel”. “Some 24 elephants are on route to China as we speak after they were taken from their families in Hwange National Park,” Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the animal rights group Conservation […]

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