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Singapore

E-scooters: a transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

They appeared in June last year as Paris was waking up from its annual all-night Festival of Music: hundreds of green-and-black electric scooters dotting the pavements of the capital. The timing was perfect, with the city struggling with a botched revamp of …

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Greta Thunberg

MARIGOLD TALES

In a gaily coloured hall at Marigold Creative, children between eight and 14 years are almost in tears while listening to the inspiring but tragic story of Iqbal Masih, the 12-year-old Pakistani activist. One child tells the story later to his peers. On anoth…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Protectionism

Modi govt releases budget to get growth back on track

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government unveiled the budget for 2019/2020 on Friday, seeking to reverse weakening growth and investment that threaten to take the shine off a recent landslide election victory. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, pres…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Riots

Repression stalks China’s Uighurs, 10 years after Urumqi riots

Ethnic minority Uighurs in China's far western region of Xinjiang are living through an era of unprecedented surveillance and detention that has done little to address inter-ethnic tension a decade after riots in the city of Urumqi, which left nearly 200 peop…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Singapore

E-scooters: a transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

PARIS: They appeared in June last year as Paris was waking up from its annual all-night Festival of Music: hundreds of green-and-black electric scooters dotting the pavements of the capital. The timing was perfect, with the city struggling with a botched …

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Singapore

E-scooters: A transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

PARIS: They appeared in June last year as Paris was waking up from its annual all-night Festival of Music: hundreds of green-and-black electric scooters dotting the pavements of the capital. The timing was perfect, with the city struggling with a botched rev…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Monsanto

Sydney’s city council reviews use of Bayer’s Roundup weed killer amid cancer fears

SYDNEY: Sydney's city council said on Friday (Jul 5) it was reviewing its weed management, which included the use of Bayer AG's Roundup, after other councils in Australia began cutting ties with the product amid concerns about possible links to cancer. The c…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds are Shifting

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer, editor of Automatic Earth. Originally published at Automatic Earth How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldnt call the west terrorists per se, but we are certainly sp…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Slavery Abolition

How did the Republican Party become so conservative?

We take it for granted in 2019 that the Republican Party is America's primary vehicle for political conservatism, but that was not always the case. To understand how the Republican Party became associated with right-wing politics — and, for that matter, how t…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

New York City

Plane makes an emergency landing in Boston after cabin fire

(CNN)A Virgin Atlantic flight headed to London from New York City was diverted to Boston after a small fire broke out in the first class cabin Thursday night, a passenger said. The flight's 217 passengers were safely evacuated after the emergency landing, th…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

E-scooters: a transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

MARIGOLD TALES

Modi govt releases budget to get growth back on track

Repression stalks China’s Uighurs, 10 years after Urumqi riots

E-scooters: a transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

E-scooters: A transport ‘tsunami’ flooding cities worldwide

Sydney’s city council reviews use of Bayer’s Roundup weed killer amid cancer fears

Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds are Shifting

How did the Republican Party become so conservative?

Plane makes an emergency landing in Boston after cabin fire

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