Giorno: 1 Ottobre 2022

Hong Kong Enters Economic Winter as the US Again Raises Interest Rate

Read More Expert: HK economy is dying due to regime governance and overstrict COVID-19 quarantine HSBC, one of the banks in Hong Kong that issues banknotes, raised the Hong Kong Dollars (HKD) prime rate by 0.125 percent on Sept. 23. The raise came after the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced a 0.75 percent rate increase in […]

SA Health Products Regulatory Authority ‘understaffed and underfunded’

Read More A patient has questioned the authority after having adverse reaction to substitute medicine The register for the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is outdated and sub-standard, its chief executive has admitted to Mail & Guardian. It has a 16 000-product backlog dating back to 1995, according to Dr Boitumelo Semete, […]

English universities face fines over dropout and employment rates

Read More Universities will face sanctions if not enough students go on to graduate-level jobs within 15 months, if too many drop out or fail to earn degrees, England’s higher education regulator has warned. The Office for Students published its new tests of “low quality” subjects that could see large fines or deregistration imposed on […]

Britons to burn their bills in weekend wave of cost of living protests

Read More UK householders are poised to set fire to their utility bills on Saturday, in a wave of cost of living protests timed to coincide with the jump in gas and electricity unit prices that will cause bills to soar. In what organisers forecast will be the largest nationwide protests against an economic crunch, […]

Biggest rail strike in decades will halt most trains in Britain

Read More The biggest rail strike in Britain for decades will bring most trains to a halt throughout Saturday, with unions combining industrial action for the first time this year. No trains will run in many areas, with no direct services at all on some intercity routes between London to Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. With […]

GOP-led states sue Biden administration in response to student loan handout plan

Post Content Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over its proposal to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans. The states — Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina and Arkansas — are accusing the administration of overstepping its executive powers without authorization from Congress. Iowa has a Democratic attorney general, […]

One Dead After Indonesia Earthquake of Magnitude 5.8 in Northern Sumatra: Agency

Read More Location of the earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sept. 30, 2022. (USGS/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) JAKARTA (Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Indonesia’s Northern Sumatra province on Saturday, killing one, said the country’s meteorology and geophysics agency, BMKG. Nine people were injured in the quake, which was felt in a few […]

Ukraine ‘more united than before’ Russian invasion, journalism student says

Elina Konavalyuk and her family had a relaxed if not indifferent attitude towards Russia before all this. Some family members had even felt a bit nostalgic for the USSR over the years. But no more. Not after living under attack by Russian soldiers who occupied the Kherson region of Ukraine early in the war, sleeping […]