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Agoda survey shows top three reasons for travel this year. BANGKOK, THAILAND – For most of us, reuniting with friends and family is the main reason to travel in 2023. Agoda’s Travel Trends survey asked travelers to share their top travel goals for the new year, with reuniting with loved ones, wellness and food, arts […]

Huge crowds swarmed the streets of Bangladeshi cities Wednesday to demand Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and fresh elections, with public anger mounting over rising food and fuel costs. Opposition allies staged rallies in Dhaka and nine other cities — the latest of several demonstrations in recent months that have occasionally been quelled by violence. […]

The Covid pandemic has shown limitations of global markets in terms of the health infrastructure of countries, supply chain disruptions, or dependence of the West on China. Amid pathbreaking Covid disruptions, companies attempted to innovate their business models. One such business model is China Plus One Strategy. It refers to diversifying the investment from China in the business sector and […]

Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental change, at best. Activist Greta Thunberg has described them as “blah blah blah” moments – grossly inadequate and too often hijacked by fossil fuel producers who would like the world to keep buying their main exports. Look more closely. The […]

HRW warns of “oppressive regimes” and “weaknesses” in Latin American democracy Thursday, January 12th 2023 – 18:54 UTC The HRW document made no mention of Uruguay The Non-Government-Organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch (HRW) was particularly attentive to Latin America in its latest report, released this week. The document focused on the situation in […]

Agence France-Presse (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Paris   ●   Fri, January 13 2023 Could fossil fuel companies be forced to remove planet-heating carbon pollution from the atmosphere? Researchers argue in a new paper that would be a cheaper, fairer solution to the climate crisis.  They suggest, in the research published on Thursday, that the […]

Myanmar’s military junta has warned ASEAN not to interfere with its internal matters after the regional bloc said it will establish a special envoy’s office to deal with the post-coup crisis in the country. Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at a press conference on Wednesday pledged that as ASEAN chair his nation would work according […]

Human Rights Watch says Iran’s regime has used excessive and lethal force in the clampdown on nationwide protests that broke out in September 2022. In its World Report 2023 published Thursday, Human Rights Watch said Iranian authorities have detained hundreds of activists on “dubious charges” and issued death sentences in “grossly unfair trials”. The acting […]

A new hacking group dubbed “Dark Pink” is targeting government, military, religious and non-profit organizations in Asia and Europe with phishing emails, according to new research.  The group’s core goal, according to a report by Group-IB, is corporate espionage, as hackers have exfiltrated files, microphone audio and messenger data from infected devices. The group was […]

A new hacking group dubbed “Dark Pink” is targeting government, military, religious and non-profit organizations in Asia and Europe with phishing emails, according to new research.  The group’s core goal, according to a report by Group-IB, is corporate espionage, as hackers have exfiltrated files, microphone audio and messenger data from infected devices. The group was […]