A Chinese PLA Veteran Expresses Remorse Over June 4 Tiananmen Massacre in 1989
Read More A veteran who served in Beijing Armed Police Fire Brigade during the Tiananmen massacre in Tiananmen on June 4, 1989, expressed remorse and shared how he has become a rights activist with The Epoch Times. The June 4 incident is also known as the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. Chinese communist regime’s military opened […]
How Zambia’s hard-won democracy may soon go up in flames
Read More Hakainde Hichilema. Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images Zambia’s next general election is not due until 2026 but President Hakainde Hichilema, elected in August 2021, has already devised a five-point plan for securing re-election at all costs. There is nothing wrong with planning ahead. The problem is that his plan, if successfully […]
It’s time to end the societal pursuit of growth
Read More The world is driven by a deeply entrenched metric that is leading us to literal disaster. Chasing this metric is not sustainable and it’s one of the main reasons why we can’t combat climate change, income inequality or dwindling resources. It’s growth. Gross domestic product (GDP). Your company’s ever-shifting bottom line. The relentless […]
Kwanda Mokoena, the teenager driving into the future
Read More Race ace: Eighteen-year-old Kwanda Mokoena (above), who lives in Johannesburg, was recently given the opportunity to race a GT3 Audi R8. Motorsport remains one of the most challenging sports to break into, what with the astronomical capital outlay required for the machinery and then some. Little wonder then that many still struggle to […]
‘Bridge Man’: The daring dissident who toppled China’s COVID lockdowns by ‘sacrificing’ himself
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been the ruling party in China for nearly 75 years. For those living there, this has meant limited individual rights, far-reaching governmental control and virtually no freedom of expression. Life under the CCP, in a word, is oppressive. Beijing’s autocratic tactics ramped up even more during the coronavirus pandemic […]
Russian minister rips Washington nuclear arms treaty ‘ultimatums,’ demands US halt ‘hostile’ policy on Moscow
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov reportedly said Saturday that Moscow’s move to suspend its nuclear arms treaty with Washington was “unshakable” and could only be reversed if the U.S. abandons its “hostile” policy toward Russia. “Our decision to suspend the START Treaty is unshakable,” Ryabkov said, according to Russian state-owned news agency TASS. “Our […]
Disabled children disproportionately affected by UK cost of living crisis
Read More Disabled children are being forced to go without electricity or heating because their families are being disproportionately harmed by the cost-of-living crisis, according to research by a children’s charity. The Childhood Trust said that the rising cost of energy bills and other inflation was affecting the families of children with special educational needs […]
Disabled children disproportionately affected by UK cost of living crisis
Read More Disabled children are being forced to go without electricity or heating because their families are being disproportionately harmed by the cost-of-living crisis, according to research by a children’s charity. The Childhood Trust said that the rising cost of energy bills and other inflation was affecting the families of children with special educational needs […]
Russia-Ukraine war live: girl, 2, killed in Dnipro blast as Kyiv fends off air attack; border town shelled, says Belgorod governor
Read More From 5h ago A two-year-old girl was killed and 22 people injured when an airstrike hit a residential district in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said on Sunday. Agence France-Presse reports that the attack, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blamed on Russia, partially destroyed a pair of two-storey buildings as well as […]
Russia-Ukraine war live: girl, 2, killed in Dnipro blast as Kyiv fends off air attack; border town shelled, says Belgorod governor
Read More From 5h ago A two-year-old girl was killed and 22 people injured when an airstrike hit a residential district in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, officials said on Sunday. Agence France-Presse reports that the attack, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blamed on Russia, partially destroyed a pair of two-storey buildings as well as […]