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Environmental Groups to Senate: Pass Genuine EPR Law 

Public health and environment groups ask the Senate to amend Senate Bill 2425 – An Act Institutionalizing The Practice of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on Plastic Packaging Waste. “We laud the Senate for finally addressing the producers’ role on waste…

International Community must pressure Myanmar to ensure the Repatriation of Rohingyas

by Jubeda Chowdhury  A resolution presented by the OIC and the EU on the protection of the Rohingya was unanimously adopted by the United Nations just recently. This is the first time since the crisis began in 2017 that a…

Extinguishing Waste-to-Energy incineration myths

November 25, 2021 – In a new Public Service Announcement (PSA), Waste Burning Exposed, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), Asia Pacific, revealed truths regarding waste-to-energy (WtE) incinerators. Featuring distinguished professor and environmental scientist, Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, the PSA…

Delta variant of coronavirus could be “self-extinguishing”.

Japanese scientists said today that the Delta variant of Covid-19 could mutate and become self-extinguishing, which it is apparently already doing in Japan. The Japanese nation is currently reporting 140 cases per day, despite being primarily affected by the Delta…

Love for Living Animals: The Javan Rhinoceros Communicates Through Secretions on its Foot

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

South Korea: 2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform aspires for a Borderless Peace Zone

The Cultural Cooperation Team of Korea hosted a successful concurrent exhibition in five venues at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) areas through its first Art & Peace Platform from September 15 to November 15, 2021. Organized by the Inter-Korean Transit Office,…

Indian MP Dev attempts to defame Saudi Arabia and Muslims

MEDIA/CINEMA     by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Indian actor, Dev alias Deepak Adhikari alias Raju, who currently is a member of Lok Sabha (General Assembly) from Trinamool Congress has made an outrageous attempt to directly insult the Kingdom of Saudi…

Indian BSF must stop killings along the Bangladesh border

by Hafizur Talukdar   ‘Bangladeshis shot dead by BSF near Lalmonirhat border: Families still waiting for bodies’ This was the headline of Bangladesh’s leading daily ‘Daily Star’ on September 26, 2021. BSF shoots Bangladeshi youth dead along Satkhira border (July 12, 2021, Dhaka Tribune)…

Non-violent struggle wins: Three anti-farmer Indian laws to be repealed

*Samyukta Kisan Morcha Press Statement* November 19th 2021, 10.30am The Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi announced the Government of India’s decision to repeal all three anti-farmer, pro-corporate black laws first brought in as Ordinances in June 2020. He…

What China Learned From U.S. Capitalism’s Development

U.S. capitalism was, in certain ways, the world’s most successful capitalism until recently. Better than the capitalist systems of Britain, Germany, and Japan, U.S. capitalism avoided two key traps. First, it found a remarkable way to manage the capitalist-worker class…

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