Hindustan Times: Talk of selfless love and this Chinese man could well be the world’s most loving son. In his 50s, he’s been dressing up as his dead sister for the last 20 years just so that his mentally ill mother can cope with the death of her daughter. His story, on YouTube channel Pear…
Hossen Sohel: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is vying for his third re-election as the ruling party leader next week, extending his stay in power to work on his long-cherished ambition — to revise his country’s war-renouncing constitution, reports ABC News. Abe reportedly has already secured about 70 percent of support from parliamentarians of the…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The Jatiya Oikya Front has sent a letter to Gono Bhaban clearing its stance that they would not join the tea party at the invitation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A three-member delegation of the alliance went to the prime minister’s official residence to hand over the letter to a staff…
AP Online The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in Iraq’s north earlier this week said he made “a bad decision” joining IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station that aired late Thursday night. Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, from Alexandria,…
Abrar Hussain: Thail-and will ban imports of 432 types of scrap electronics within six months, according to an environment ministry official. This makes Thailand the latest country to respond to China’s crackdown on imports of high-tech trash this year. Many Southeast Asian nations fear that they are the new dumping ground for the world’s trash…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed : Roughly half the world’s population still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day. And in too many places, having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty. A continued lack of decent work opportunities, insufficient investments and under-consumption lead to an erosion of the basic social contract…
Nasim Ahmed/ Middle East Monitor It was a good idea that didn’t catch on in 2007. Now we’re running out of time. Back in 2007, I wrote a column calling for a “Green New Deal,” and I later expanded on the idea in a book, “Hot, Flat and Crowded.” Barack Obama picked up the theme…
France24: Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published on Tuesday. Poverty remained stable at 30.2 percent of the population — 184 million people — but extreme poverty increased from 9.9 percent…
Sayeed Muhammad: In a sign of repentance at a mass dedicated to victims of abuse, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington who was blamed for not doing enough to deal with pedophile priests in Pennsylvania, prostrated himself on Friday. “Our prayers are for those who were assaulted by serious abuse of the clergy and…
Hindustan Times: Blue lightemitted from smartphones and other digital devices can accelerate blindness by transforming vital molecules in the eye’s retina into cell killers, a study has found. Macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease that results in significant vision loss starting on average in a person’s 50s or 60s, is the death of photoreceptor cells…