Giorno: 7 Marzo 2023

South Korea Announces ‘Historic’ Plan to Compensate Victims of Wartime Forced Labor

Read More South Korea’s government announced a plan on Sunday that aims to resolve a long-running dispute on compensating Koreans forced to work under Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945. The move marks a step toward improving ties between the two nations and comes as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol seeks to bolster relations […]

The IMF’s Asia Forecast Misses a Lot 

Read More Commentary New projections on Asian growth from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) paint a bright picture—too bright, in fact. The organization relies on the positive effects of China’s reopening to forecast not only rapid real growth for China but also for other Asian economies, including India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Mongolia. Though there can […]

New Zealand’s Own Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ Has Failed Maoris: Advocate

Read More In a warning to Australians set to vote on altering their Constitution, New Zealander Casey Costello says her country’s own Indigenous “Voice to Parliament” has not had the desired effect and has become a burden on its democracy. Costello, part-Maori and Anglo-Irish, is the founding trustee of the Hobson’s Pledge, said the Waitangi […]

UN Committee Urges China to Dismantle Forced Labor Systems

Read More Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, poses at a U.S.-backed Uyghur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in CCP-run camps in Xinjiang, China in front of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse /Reuters) GENEVA—A U.N. committee said […]

Self-Destruct Command Issued After Liftoff for Japan’s New H3 Rocket

Read More Rocket carried sensor in hope of detecting North Korea’s ballistic missile launches Japan’s next generation “H3” rocket, carrying the advanced optical satellite “Daichi 3”, leaves the launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan on March 7, 2023. (STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images) JAXA said it has had to destroy […]

Women help to save Kenya’s last rainforest

Read More Kakamega Forest, the only surviving rainforest in Kenya, is under threat from overexploitation, but women’s groups are finding ways to both use and protect the forest’s resources. Listed in 2010 by Unesco as a World Heritage Site, Kakamega Forest is the easternmost remnant of the prehistoric Guineo-Congolian Forest. It is a sanctuary for […]

WATCH AGAIN: Ramaphosa reshuffles the cabinet

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa. After a very long wait, President Cyril Ramaphosa is finally set to reshuffle the cabinet. Sources told the Mail & Guardian that Ramaphosa has already put forward Thembi Nkadimeng’s name to the ANC’s top brass. She is currently the deputy minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs and looks set […]

READ IN FULL | Ramaphosa’s changes to the cabinet

Read More Fellow South Africans, Today, I am announcing a number of changes to the National Executive. The purpose of these changes is to ensure that government is properly capacitated and directed to give effect to the commitments made in the State of the Nation Address and the Budget Speech. We have said that the […]

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa gets green light for minister of electricity

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced Kgosientsho Sputla Ramokgopa as the new minister of electricity who will focus on solving the power crises at Eskom. “The state of disaster will allow the new electricity minister to exclude certain institutions from load-shedding. This minister will remain in office for as long as it’s necessary […]

Ramaphosa names his electricity minister, Paul Mashatile becomes new deputy president

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the appointment of his infrastructure czar  Kgosientsho Ramokgopa as the new minister of electricity.  In a much anticipated cabinet reshuffle, Ramaphosa focused most of his speech on the current energy crisis, along with the role that Ramokgopa will play in his cabinet in coordinating the country’s response. Ramaphosa, […]