With no more live sports to use as an outlet for our anger and frustrations, maybe now we can focus our fury towards the big fight that really matters… the one against the ruling elite. Last Thursday night Mickey Mouse and the suits at Disney put the ever ornery and defiant president of the UFC,...
Despite strict quarantine measures due to the coronavirus pandemic, India and Pakistan are planning to partially open up some parts of their economies to cushion the financial impact of shutdowns across the region. In India, which is under a 21-day lockdown, millions of people have been left without work. The World Bank has forecast the...
Officials in Greece expressed concern on Monday that migrants and refugees are gathering on Turkey's coast with plans to cross the Aegean Sea to Greek islands, despite movement restrictions in both countries to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Daily clashes between border police and asylum-seekers broke out at the land border between Turkey and...
The Russian government may need to drastically ramp up stimulus spending, as the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19 could leave up to 8 million Russians out of work, warned the head of the parliamentary finance oversight body. “According to forecasts, during this crisis the number of unemployed people in Russia will rise from 2.5 million...
President Joko Widodo said Indonesia will be able to conduct more than 10,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests a day for the new coronavirus. The president rejected criticism that he favored economic considerations over public health. Widodo told foreign media on Monday that Indonesia had sourced new PCR kits from Switzerland and its extra testing...
Even a global catastrophe like Covid-19 has not discouraged identity-entrepreneurs from continuing to draw attention to their cause. Instead of coming together in a common struggle, they seek to exploit Covid-19 for their own end. There was a time when a deathly disaster like the current pandemic would lead competing interests and parties to leave...
Authorities in Singapore are preparing to house hundreds of foreign workers in accommodation vessels typically used for offshore and marine industry staff. Tens of thousands of migrant workers, many from South Asia, live in cramped dormitories across Singapore, which have become the biggest source of coronavirus infections in recent days. Some of the healthy residents...
