Giorno: 5 Giugno 2023

Australia Strengthens Ties With ‘Top Tier’ Partner Vietnam

Read More Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese celebrated 50 years of bilateral relations with Vietnam with banh mi and beer in Hanoi while calling the friendship between the two countries “absolutely vital” to addressing the regional challenges. Focusing heavily on enhancing trade, the prime minister indicated there were plans to upgrade Australia’s relationship with the […]

US Must Make North Korea Aware of ‘Consequences’ of Its Launches: Nuclear Envoy

Read More North Korea must be made aware of the “consequences” of its escalatory behavior after its recent spy satellite launch sparked tensions in the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday. In an interview with Yonhap News Agency (YNA), U.S. nuclear envoy Sung Kim said the United States must convince North Korea […]

Japan, China Agree on ‘Reliable’ Operation of Military Hotline Amid Tensions

Read More The defense ministers of Japan and China agreed Saturday to ensure the “reliability” of their military hotline operation in order to prevent potential clashes amid rising tensions in the East China Sea. Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada met with his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore […]

Deaths From Starvation Tripled in North Korea: South Korean Spy Agency

Read More Deaths from starvation in North Korea have tripled compared to last year, according to South Korea’s state intelligence agency. Despite the dire situation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to weigh around 300 pounds. Yoo Sang-bum, the executive secretary for the Parliamentary Intelligence Committee, said that prices of corn and rice […]

Snowden leaks: 10 years later, US intelligence still collects huge amounts of information

Read More Edward Snowden, president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. (Matthew Busch/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In 2013, US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden stunned the world with revelations that the massive US spy apparatus was secretly sucking up communications and private data on people around the world, from the lowest social media poster to […]

Eusebius McKaiser: A democratic intellectual

Read More Eusebius Mckaiser. (Photo by Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images) Democracy is a practice as well as a set of political arrangements, and shared spaces for disputation are central to its practice. Within national states, and national dramas, there are always multiple publics and multiple public spheres, some of which are structurally subordinated […]

Reserve Bank says South Africans must bungee jump out of a crashing helicopter

Read More Lesetja Kganyago, governor of South Africa’s central bank. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In the article ‘Government to blame for high interest rates – Reserve Bank‘ in the Daily Investor (29 May 2023), Shaun Jacobs says the South African Reserve Bank, in its Monetary Policy Review, has consistently raised prices for administered services […]

Unpacking deforestation, forest loss and carbon sinks

Read More Forests are cleared to make space for housing, industries, businesses and for agriculture. (Photo by ADITYA AJI/AFP via Getty Images) Natural forests of indigenous trees create ecologically complex and biodiverse environments, whereas plantations are managed plantations of exotic trees such as pine and eucalyptus that are grown for harvesting and logging. In 2010, […]

Mobile money: Ethiopia struggles to pay the price of progress

Read More Pay up: M-Pesa has transformed Kenya’s economy. But Telebirr has been bringing Ethiopia’s capital to a halt. Photo: Eric Lafforgue/ArtInAllOfUs/Corbis/Getty Images Elias Alemu waited more than an hour to refuel his vehicle, a Toyota Vitz, at a petrol station near Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. In recent months, long queues for petrol […]