One sip can kill: The new battles over paraquat pesticides
9 April 2021 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentThere’s new research on the impact of pesticide pollution when it comes to agriculture, public health risks and biodiversity loss, but there’s also renewed attention for one pesticide that’s been under scrutiny for decades. Public Eye, the investigative NGO based in Switzerland, calls paraquat the world’s deadliest weedkiller. Ingesting as […]
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Clash of Cultures – Is it Real or a Smokescreen?
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentOver the past decade anti-immigrant views, and the cultural stereotyping on which it is based, has been elevated to the primary narrative in many political contexts. Credit: UNOHCR. By Daud Khan and Leila Yasmine KhanAMSTERDAM/ROME, Apr 8 2021 (IPS) The notion of “Clash of Cultures” is most frequently used as […]
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Menku Sri Mulyani dukung pembangunan ekosistem industri halal di Indonesia
8 April 2021 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentMenkeu menjelaskan dalam situasi pandemi ini, industri halal masih mampu mencatatkan kinerja yang baik
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DPR dorong KLHK jadikan Gunung Sanggabuana kawasan hutan lindung
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentAnggota Komisi IV DPR RI Dedi Mulyadi akan mendorong Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan agar Gunung Sanggabuana yang berlokasi di wilayah Kabupaten Karawang, Jabar, dijadikan sebagai kawasan hutan …
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Funding gap forces WFP to cut food rations in South Sudan
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCountries: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan Source: World Food Programme The rations will be reduced from this month and affect nearly 700,000 refugees and IDPs who will now receive 50% of a full ration, down from 70%. A full ration provides 2,100 kilocalories […]
Read MoreMyanmar’s military is waging war on its citizens. Some say its time to fight back
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentFrom a fenced-off compound close to the Myanmar border in northern Thailand, a rebel leader offers a bleak view of Myanmar’s future, as the country is cleaved apart by a military coup.
Read MoreCOVID-19: UK Restructuring and Insolvency Update – July 2021 Is the Month to Watch
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentThe UK government has extended its suspension of various rules and procedures affecting distressed businesses as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, with the UK lockdown easing on a rolling basis up to 21 June 2021, these may be the last of the blanket extensions across all of […]
Read MoreK&L Gates Continues Growth of Health Care Practice with Addition of Houston Partner
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentHouston – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Donald Walker as a partner in the health care practice. He joins the firm’s Houston office after serving as director and senior legal counsel at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). At TCH, Walker advised the network’s entities on corporate operations and […]
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Dukung BNPB, TNI AL kerahkan enam kapal perang membantu evakuasi banjir bandang NTT
7 April 2021 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentEnam unit kapal perang TNI AL akan membantu pengiriman logistik dan Rumah Sakit terapung untuk merawat pasien.
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Was Trump’s Family-Separation Policy Torture?
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCentral American mother and daughter reunited at U.S. airport. Credit: Anonymous. By Peter CostantiniSEATTLE , Apr 7 2021 (IPS) “A crime against humanity” and “a disgrace to our great country”: that’s how 99-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nazis at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, characterized the Donald […]
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