10 May, 2014

US states should act against Israel’s denial of entry to Americans | The Electronic Intifada

On 13 September 2012, an Israeli soldier pointed his gun at an American college student and ordered her to board a bus back to Jordan. The student, Yara Karmalawy, was attempting to travel to the occupied West Bank and present-day Israel as part of a university-sponsored trip with other students from the University of California, […]

10 May, 2014

Israelis’ Independence Day Rallying Cry: “Death to Arabs” | Mondoweiss

Hundreds of Palestinian cars displaying flags slowly crawled along the highway toward Lubya while Israeli vehicles headed to Independence Day celebrations waved their respective flags. As traffic came to a standstill, many busloads of Palestinians exited and walked along the shoulder of the highway toward the march. A large group of Israelis in a nearby […]

10 May, 2014

Ron Paul: Why the U.S. is No Longer Number One | The Lone Star Watchdog

The American government pursues many of the same flawed policies as the Chinese. For example, because of the increase in regulations, subsidies, and bailouts, many American businesses are putting more resources into manipulating the political process than producing goods and services desired by consumers. Many big businesses even lobby Congress and the federal bureaucracy for […]

9 May, 2014

If India’s Narendra Modi wins… by Siddharth Varadarajan – Al Jazeera English

What can India and the world expect if Narendra Modi, the self-styled “Hindu nationalist” who is front-runner in the elections, ends up winning a plurality of seats when results are declared on May 16? If he is forced to form a government with allies, the argument goes, Modi would not have the freedom to pursue […]

9 May, 2014

Australian competition watchdog seeks stronger penalties against Flight Centre

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8 May 2014 (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission media release) – The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has today lodged a cross-appeal in relation to a penalty judgment of the Federal Court on 28 March 2014 ordering Flight Centre Limited (Flight Centre) to pay penalties totaling $11M for repeatedly attempting to enter into anti-competitive arrangements […]

9 May, 2014

Outgoing UN Rapporteur Richard Falk on Israel: It’s apartheid – Al-Ahram Weekly

The outgoing UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council (HRC) Resolution 5/1 his last report on the dire conditions under which the Palestinian people have to live. Falk’s final presentation addresses Israeli settlements in the West Bank […]

9 May, 2014

Call to Action Signed to Usher in Freer Travel & Talent Mobility in Africa

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Abuja, Nigeria, 8 May 2014 (World Economic Forum media release) – The Global Agenda Councils on New Models for Travel & Tourism and Africa have today agreed to collaborate on promoting a regional integration strategy through the facilitation of travel and talent mobility in the region using, among others, a common visa for regional blocs […]

9 May, 2014

Israel Won’t Stop Spying on the U.S. – Newsweek

Israel’s espionage activities in America are unrivaled and unseemly, counterspies have told members of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees, going far beyond activities by other close allies, such as Germany, France, the U.K. and Japan. A congressional staffer familiar with a briefing last January called the testimony “very sobering…alarming…even terrifying.” Another staffer called […]

9 May, 2014

FREE Download: Report Says Marketers Overwhelmed by Technology Vendors

by Ayaz Nanji

May 5, 2014 – Most marketers (63%) at midsize companies say they have too many marketing technology vendors to manage effectively, according to a recent report from DNN Software. Just over half (53%) of marketers say their organization manages five or more technology vendor relationships, and 15% say their company manages 10 or more. The […]

9 May, 2014

Duryodhana, Stolen Cambodian Sculpture, To Be Returned from U.S.

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 08, 2014 – An ancient Cambodian sculpture, originally from the Koh Ker period (928-942AD), will return to Cambodia later this spring. The sculpture, known as the Duryodhana, was stolen from Cambodia sometime in the early 1970s. The 225-kilogram statue depicts a Hindu warrior and is valued at around US$2 million. It […]

8 May, 2014

Film Festival Director Seeks Expanded Support for Independent Filmmakers

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 08, 2014 – The New York City Independent Film Festival has a new crowd funding campaign. The aim is to support more filmmakers than ever before. The festival started in 2009 and grew fast. “In the first few years, I kept the festival alive myself“, said Dennis Cieri, Executive director […]

8 May, 2014

The 10 worst city tourism videos – theguardian.com

Bad acting, sexual innuendo and a parrot riding a tricycle – from Astana to Cincinnati to Singapore, come and marvel at the funniest and most baffling promotional tourism videos for cities Read the rest: The 10 worst city tourism videos | Cities | theguardian.com.

8 May, 2014

Europe projects 1.5 million more jobs through digital entrepreneurship

Brussels, 29 April 2014, European Commission Press Memo – The main challenge entrepreneurs are facing in Europe is not the lack of great ideas but the fear of turning ideas into reality. Many people with great ideas refrain from entrepreneurship because of their doubts. There are as many people wanting to start a business in […]

7 May, 2014

Hindutva redux in Uttar Pradesh – The Hindu

Not surprisingly then, Mr. Modi’s own rhetoric has gradually, almost inevitably, changed from livelihood talk and lofty promises of highways and bullet trains to issues around Pakistan and alleged Muslim appeasement. From insinuating a Pakistani connection in the case of Arvind Kejriwal (AK-49 for his 49 days as Delhi Chief Minister) to alleging a pink […]

7 May, 2014

Modi-run govt will be a bullying one: Salman Rushdie | The Indian Express

During his address, Rushdie described Modi as a “highly divisive figure”, a “hardliner’s hardliner” and voiced concern that the attacks on freedom of expression and literary works could worsen. He said for India, democracy should not mean just conducting free and fair elections but also ensuring the right to free speech. “If freedom of expression […]

6 May, 2014

Chinese tourists now get 24-hour travel passes to visit North Korea

By Yang Wanli

The first group of 35 Chinese cyclists enter the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea via Tumen port in Jilin on Friday, after Tumen opened a one-day tour taking visitors to the DPRK. During the six-hour tour, the cyclists visited the Nanyo railway station and a statue of Kim Il-sung. [Photo/Xinhua] 2014-05-05, (China Daily) – Tumen […]

6 May, 2014

Another shooting at Dayton, Ohio, medical complex — RT USA

A suspected gunman is in custody on Monday after police say he opened fire and injured one man at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical complex in Dayton, Ohio. The gunman, 59-year-old Neil Moore, is a retired employee of the VA hospital. At approximately noon local time, witnesses heard gunfire in the basement of the […]

6 May, 2014

Malaysia will need to rebuild image in China after MH370, experts say

By Zheng Xin

Beijing, (China Daily), 2014-05-05 – The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has led to a decline in the number of Chinese tourists to Malaysia during the May Day holiday, the China National Tourism Administration said. Many travel agencies have changed the once popular “Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand” itinerary to a “Singapore-Vietnam-Thailand” one due to the negative impression […]

6 May, 2014

The banksters too big to jail – Sydney Morning Herald

Australian Funds manager Mike Mangan of 2MG keeps a passing eye on some of the less salubrious aspects of banking in his newsletter for clients. His current missive deals with banks that are not just too big to fail, but “too big to jail”. More worryingly, he suggests some of them might also be “too […]

6 May, 2014

China sees huge market for senior-services providers, including travel

By He Dan

Beijing, China Daily. 2014-05-05 – China’s aging population has created a huge market for senior-services providers from both home and abroad. Civil Affairs Minister Li Liguo made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the third China International Senior Services Expo, which kicked off in Beijing on May 4. The market value of nursing care […]

6 May, 2014

India launches tour-planning website developed by IIT alumni

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New Delhi, Ministry of Tourism, 05-May-2014 – Tripigator.com, a travel planning engine, was launched today in Delhi in partnership with Incredible India of Ministry of Tourism. Tripigator.com instantly generates personalized travel itineraries on fewer inputs and significantly reduces users’ effort by replacing ten tabs with one tab. The website has been chosen as the official […]

6 May, 2014

Indian Railways starts pilgrimage tourist train from Chennai to Nepal

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KOLKATA, TNN, May 5, 2014 – After offering tour packages to popular destinations like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, IRCTC has launched a tourist train from Chennai to Nepal, primarily aimed at pilgrims from south India. Those opting for this tour will be taken around Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage destinations in north India and Nepal. “It […]

6 May, 2014

With India’s Election, A Reminder of Horrors of 2002 Gujarat Riots – NYTimes.com

AHMEDABAD, India — Gulbarg Society, a complex of 18 bungalows and two apartment blocks once occupied by upper-middle-class Muslims in the largely Hindu neighborhood of Chamanpura, is now a cluster of doorless burned shells. Inside the complex, Qasim Allah Noor Mansour, 70, sat on a patio, catching his breath after chasing away a homeless boy […]

6 May, 2014

Number of children in Japan drops for 33rd year | The Japan Times

The number of children 14 and under has fallen for the 33rd consecutive year to a record low of 16.33 million as of April 1, the government said Sunday, reflecting the continued downward trend in the Japan’s birthrate. The number of children in Japan fell by 160,000 from the previous year, and has declined by […]

6 May, 2014

Cathay Pacific female uniform too revealing, says union

Cathay Pacific flight attendants want the Hong Kong airline to redesign their uniforms because they are too revealing and may provoke sexual harassment, a union said on Monday. Female cabin crew members say the white blouses are too short and the red skirts too tight, leaving them uncomfortable at work, the Cathay Pacific Airways Flight […]

6 May, 2014

Captive elephants in Laos face extinction – Univ of Queensland study

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5 May 2014 (UQ News) – The captive elephant population in Laos will be extinct in just over a century if current management practices do not change, a University of Queensland study has found. It is estimated that only 480 captive elephants remain across Laos, and the study shows that changes to conservation management are […]

6 May, 2014

44% of world’s households will have Internet access by end 2014 – ITU report

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Geneva, 5 May 2014 (International Telecommunications Union) – New figures released by ITU today indicate that, by end 2014, there will be almost 3 billion Internet users, two-thirds of them coming from the developing world, and that the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions will reach 2.3 billion globally. Fifty-five per cent of these subscriptions are expected to […]

5 May, 2014

Jakarta to host first Global Forum on Islamic Tourism

Imtiaz Muqbil

Jakarta – Tourism industry officials and executives from 57 countries of the Islamic world and beyond are to meet in Jakarta between 2-3 June 2014 for the first International Forum on Islamic Tourism. It is being organised by the Indonesia Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy in line with the commitment made at eighth Islamic […]

5 May, 2014

Applicants sought to head Mekong Tourism office

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The Bangkok-based Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office is inviting applications for Executive Director position to replace Mr Mason Florence who is moving on at the end of a successful six-year term. Citizens of the Greater Mekong Subregion countries and women are especially being encouraged to apply. The initial contract will be for two years. Salary will […]

5 May, 2014

Astana hosts first Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting

Compiled by Imtiaz Muqbil & Sana Shamsi

A compilation of progressive, positive, inspiring and motivating events and developments in the world of Islam for the week ending 05 May 2014 (06 Rajab 1435). Pls click on any of the headlines below to go to the story. ============ THE ISLAMIC IMPERATIVE — SUPPORT MALAYSIA IN ITS TIME OF NEED The tragedy of MH370 […]

5 May, 2014

Kedarnath shrine reopens for devotees – The Times of India

Sacred portals of the Kedarnath temple were reopened to devotees amid elaborate rituals early this morning, about a year after the Himalayan shrine was marred by flash floods that had left hundreds of people dead and many others stranded. Chief priest of the shrine (Rawal) Bhima Shankar Ling presided over the rituals as its gates […]

5 May, 2014

Why 2002 Gujarat riots still matter – By Karishma Vyas, Al Jazeera

The Gujarat riots are a crucial election issue. Not only because of the human rights concerns, but because Modi and the BJP have campaigned hard on a platform of good governance. The obvious question that arises is if Modi could not compel Gujarat’s security forces to clamp down on communal violence for weeks, how effective […]

5 May, 2014

Gunman kills 3 in Arkansas shootings – theguardian.com

Police said on Sunday a gunman who shot and killed three people and injured four in north-east Arkansas was an acquaintance or friend, but a motive was unknown. Sergeant Doug Formon of Jonesboro police said the shooter was 40-year-old Porfirio Hernandez, who recently had been released from a mental-health treatment facility. A 38-year-old man and […]

4 May, 2014

Israel imposes 3-day closure on West Bank

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Occupied Jerusalem,May 4 (Petra)-Israeli occupation forces on Sunday imposed a general closure on the West Bank on the occasion of the so called Israel’s Independence Day. According to Israeli radio , the closure will start at 6 PM and will be lifted on Tuesday midnight. The announcement added that Palestinians will not be allowed to […]

4 May, 2014

Indian President Exhorts Film-makers to Reflect Deeply on their Key Messages

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New Delhi, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 03-May-2014 – Indian President Mr Pranab Mukherjee today conferred the film awards for the year 2013 in various categories at the 61st National Film Awards Function held at the Vigyan Bhawan. In his address, the President said, “I take this opportunity to reflect upon an important aspect of […]

4 May, 2014

Lazy, dishonest workforce derails growth, says Ugandan President

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NTUNGAMO (UGANDA), May 3 (NNN-NEW VISION) — President Yoweri Museveni has warned that there can be no growth and economic development when you have a lazy and dishonest workforce, stressing that a workforce that steals from its employer scares off investors and derails development. The President singled out the theft of road fuel on the […]

4 May, 2014

Lower dependence on foreign consultants – Bangladesh PM tells nation

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DHAKA, May 4, 2014 (BSS)-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought support of the local engineers to lessen dependence on foreign consultants while preparing and executing development projects particularly big ones. In this regard, she urged Engineers Institute of Bangladesh (IEB) to constitute some teams with their members to provide consultancy services to the government in […]

4 May, 2014

U.A.E. citizens get travel safety tips, especially for UK

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ABU DHABI, 29th April, 2014 (WAM) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called U.A.E. citizens wishing to travel abroad for tourism, study and medical treatment, mainly those heading to the UK, to take into consideration a set of important measures for their own safety. In a statement today, Rashid Ali Al Dhaheri, Director of […]

4 May, 2014

UAE: Not-so-great Britain? How the London hotel hammer attack hurt ‘Brand UK’

Two consecutive attacks on UAE nationals visiting London in recent weeks have left several scars: horrific physical ones (such as those left on the victims of the atrocious Cumberland Hotel “Hammer Attack”) as well as reputational scars which are worsened by increasing questions on whether or not London is still the popular tourist destination that […]

4 May, 2014

A Palestinian’s Open Message to the Jews: Even the holocaust began with “innocuous” graffiti on walls

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem

The shocking absence on the part of Jewish leaders and intellectuals in Israel and abroad to the growing Jewish terrorist campaign against the Palestinian community in the occupied territories and Israel proper is raising many eyebrows among observers and intellectuals. Once again, we observe not only total inaction but a deafening silence among Jews toward […]

3 May, 2014

Amount of money stolen via phone fraud soaring | The Japan Times

The number of reported cases in which fraudsters use the phone to trick people into parting with cash continues to increase. According to National Police Agency sources, the amount of cash swindled this way in the first three months of the year soared 41 percent from a year earlier to roughly ¥13 billion. That outstripped […]

3 May, 2014

Asia Times Online: How the US created, and lost, Afghan war

To understand how America’s battle in Afghanistan went so wrong for so long, a (hidden) history lesson is in order. In those early years after 2001, driven by the idee fixe that the world was rigidly divided into terrorist and non-terrorist camps, Washington allied with Afghan warlords and strongmen. Their enemies became ours, and through […]

3 May, 2014

Palestine: Peace by piece – By S. Nihal Singh, The Asian Age

The truth is that Israel has been using the façade of talks to go on encroaching on more and more Palestinian land on the West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem confident in the knowledge that its friends in the US Congress and Senate will back it, apart from the influential American Jewish lobby. Mr […]

3 May, 2014

Chinese tourists urged to change “loud, rude, self-centered” behaviour

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Beijing, (Xinhua) May 02, 2014 – With China on holiday for International Workers Day, tourist agency managers and sociologists want Chinese tourists to learn to avoid embarrassing behavior. Li Zhongguang, of the China Tourism Academy, believes it is time for everyone to have a global vision and think about the effects of their behavior on […]

3 May, 2014

China mulls ‘mega’ Free Trade Agreement for Asia-Pacific region

By Li Jiabao

Beijing, Xinhuanet.com, May 02, 2014 – China has proposed studying the feasibility of a mega free-trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region as the many flourishing FTAs in the area could burden businesses with different standards, a senior official said on Wednesday. “We made a proposal to establish a working group to study the feasibility of […]

3 May, 2014

PressTV – UN urges citizenship for Myanmar Muslims

The top UN envoy to Myanmar has emphasized on the urgency for the Muslim minority in the country’s violence-ridden Rakhine state to get on the path to citizenship. The UN secretary general’s special adviser on Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, warned on Thursday that the security of the Rohingya Muslims, who are considered illegal immigrants by the […]

3 May, 2014

Glenn Greenwald debates ex-NSA director on state surveillance — RT USA

The ongoing debate over whether Americans should value privacy or security stretched into Toronto, Canada Friday night when four of the most influential voices on the matter sat down to discuss the leaked NSA surveillance programs and their fallout. Former National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency chief Michael Hayden joined with Harvard law professor […]

3 May, 2014

Australian retirement age rise to 70 by 2035 – Sydney Morning Herald

Australians born after 1965 will have to work until they are 70 before they are eligible for the age pension, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced, as he warned there was “no such thing” as a free visit to a doctor or free welfare. Mr Hockey confirmed on Friday that while nobody currently on the pension […]

2 May, 2014

Global Media Freedom Loses Ground in 2013

by Cynthia English and Lee Becker

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 2, 2014 (Gallup Polls) — Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Saturday, Gallup’s global surveys show perceived media freedom declining in many countries. A median of 63% of adults across 132 countries polled last year say the media in their country have a lot of freedom — on the low side […]

2 May, 2014

Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands – Washington Post

Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators’ demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance when their information is targeted for government seizure. This increasingly defiant industry stand is giving some of the tens of thousands of Americans […]

2 May, 2014

World Press Freedom Day May 3: Free Media Vital To Good Governance – UN

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United Nations, (UN News Centre) May 1 2014 – Free media, traditional and new, are indispensable for development, democracy and good governance, United Nations officials said today, spotlighting Press Freedom Day – observed annually on 3 May – to urge Governments, societies and individuals to actively defend this fundamental right as a critical factor in […]

2 May, 2014

Using Mobile Technology for Work Linked to Higher Stress – Gallup Polls

by Dan Witters and Diana Liu

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2014 (Gallup Polls) — U.S. workers who email for work and who spend more hours working remotely outside of normal working hours are more likely to experience a substantial amount of stress on any given day than workers who do not exhibit these behaviors. Nearly half of workers who “frequently” email […]

2 May, 2014

Xinhua Insight: Online travel agencies capitalize on China’s smart tourism boom

By Xinhua writer Zhang Zhongkai

HAIKOU, May 1 (Xinhua)– On the eve of the three-day long Workers’ Day holiday, IT engineer Feng Yue from south China’s Hainan Province is planning a trip to southwestern province of Yunnan with his girlfriend. While his parents consult local travel agencies for a group tour, Feng, 26, gets all the itinerary, tickets and accommodation […]

2 May, 2014

Aviation industry to meet in KL to plan real-time flight data monitoring standards

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Geneva, 01 May 2014 – (ITU media release) Following a call from Ahmad Shabery Cheek, Malaysian Minister for Communications and Multimedia, ITU and the Government of Malaysia will organize an Expert Dialogue on Real-time Monitoring of Flight Data, including the Black Box – the need for international Standards in the Age of Cloud Computing and Big […]

2 May, 2014

Who’s really ‘presenting lies as facts’? — RT Op-Edge

Mr. Richard Stengel, the US Under Secretary of State who wrote such an impassioned “takedown” of RT in the US State Department blog, did get one thing right. Propaganda IS the deliberate dissemination of information that you know to be false or misguided. And boy, does Mr. Stengel make a valiant attempt at propagandizing, because […]

1 May, 2014

Modi victory will see ideology of hate penetrate Indian govt machinery: Nandita Das

May 1, 2014, STOCKHOLM: Actress and social activist Nandita Das has warned that a victory for Narendra Modi in the ongoing general elections will result in an ideology of hate to penetrate into the government machinery and influence institutions and policies. Nandita, who showcased her hard hitting and poignant film Firaq at the India Unlimited […]

1 May, 2014

Hindu seers say Modi a ‘grave sinner’, not fit to be PM – Hindustan Times

Two of Hinduism’s key religious heads attached to traditional monasteries knowns as ‘mutts’ have opposed BJP leader Narendra Modi’s bid for prime-ministership, calling him a “grave sinner” trying to “mislead” the nation. The two pontiffs – one heads the Puri peeth (seat) of the Advaita school of Hindu philosophy, while the other leads its Dwarka […]

1 May, 2014

900,000 crimes, including rape, not pursued by UK police in 2013

Nearly a million criminal offences including rape have gone unrecorded by police in a single year, according to a damning report that could see the 20-year decline in recorded crime reversed when accurate statistics are calculated. Inspectors said they suspected “discreditable and unethical” behaviour by some officers and said they had discovered 14 reported rapes […]

1 May, 2014

Is this not apartheid? – Gideon Levy – Haaretz

The naysayers can find countless differences between the apartheid of Pretoria and that of Jerusalem. Pretoria’s was openly racist and anchored in law; Jerusalem’s is denied and repressed, hidden beneath a heavy cloak of propaganda and messianic religious faith. But the result is the same. Some South Africans who lived under the system of segregation […]

1 May, 2014

The truth, off the record – Haaretz

At a G-20 conference in Cannes in November 2011, then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy termed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar” and said he “can’t stand” the Israeli leader. U.S. President Barack Obama responded, “You’re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day.” These rare quotes, revealing truths that are […]

1 May, 2014

WSJ/NBC Poll: Americans Want Less Interventionist Foreign Policy

The Wall Street Journal of 30 April 2014 has the following headline on the front page: “Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds.” Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News […]

1 May, 2014

China eyes “milestone” May 20-21 summit on security cooperation in Asia

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BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) — China hopes the upcoming Shanghai summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) will be a milestone for security cooperation in the region, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Spokesman Qin Gang said at a daily news briefing, “We will tell the world that […]

1 May, 2014

First “Made in China” regional jet completes overseas test flights

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SHANGHAI, April 28 (Xinhua) — A regional airliner built by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) returned to Xi’an on Monday after completing test flights in natural icing conditions in Canada. It was the first time for the airliner, a twin-engined ARJ21-700, to carry out test flights abroad under special meteorological conditions, sources with […]

1 May, 2014

WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious threat to public health

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30 April 2014, Geneva  (World Health Organization) – A new report by WHO — its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally — reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to […]

1 May, 2014

May Day Action Alert: Your chance to vote for the “World’s Worst Boss”

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Brussels, 1 May 2014 (International Trade Unions Confederation May Day statement): Building Workers’ Power is vital to drive economic, industrial and social transformation. The international system today is heavily stacked against workers and their families, and governments are increasingly cowered by big finance and big business.  A tiny proportion of the world’s population holds vast […]