Month: June 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi Fast Facts
Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal:Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar)
Manufacturing jobs return to US during election year but not quite like before
As presidential candidates debate free trade, foreign manufacturers and American companies are bringing jobs back while shifting to automation When Fred Robinson moved to his cottage in 1960, it was on little more than a dirt lane surrounded by cotton fields. For 42 years, like so many others in Cleveland County, North Carolina, Robinson made […]
Wall Street Journal Ads Call Out The Papers Bias On Climate Change
Beginning Tuesday and running until the end of the Republican National Convention in July, the most widely circulated print newspaper in the United States will run a series of ads calling out its own bias against climate change. The ads are being paid for by a group calling itself the “Partnership for Responsible Growth” and […]
Warriors admit Draymond Green ban will be a test as they chase NBA title
Shaun Livingston admits facing the Cleveland Cavaliers will be tough without suspended forward Draymond Green. The Golden State Warriors are just one win from a second successive NBA title but Shaun Livingston admits facing the Cleveland Cavaliers will be tough without suspended forward Draymond Green. “It’s another test,” said Livingston of playing without Green. “We’ve […]
Inside Bangladesh’s killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics
First they came for the bloggers, the atheists, the secular intellectuals. Then the three-year murder spree spread to aid workers, minority religions and Muslims who did not want their country reshaped by extremist Islam The attack on Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was so frenzied that its traces remain more than a month later, arcs of […]