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South Africa has not won the two positions at the African Union Commission leadership it had targeted.

House OKs bill suspending SSS contribution hike on 2nd reading THE HOUSE  of Representatives on Wednesday approved on second reading a proposal seeking to grant the President the power to defer the scheduled hike in Social Security System (SSS) contribution rates.   The chamber passed through voice voting House Bill 8512, which seeks to amend Republic Act 11199 or the Social Security Act of 2018. The proposal will grant the President of the Philippines power, in consultation with the Secreta...

‘Constitute Police Complaints Authority’ Updated: Updated: High Court directive to State govt. Share Article High Court directive to State govt. Telangana High Court on Thursday instructed State government to constitute State Police Complaints Authority within four weeks of receiving names of retired Supreme Court or High Court judges for appointment as the Authority’s chairman. A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy passed the direction after hearing a PIL pet...

English By Natalie Liu Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - While running for president, Joe Biden stated that once elected, he would take “immediate steps to renew our own democracy and alliances,” including organizing a global Summit for Democracy during his first year in office. Biden’s proposal is being welcomed by U.S. allies eager to see a stronger, more substantive democratic coalition.    “I think a community of d...

Calls for international, and particularly transatlantic, cooperation are growing. In Europe, interest in strengthening “ethical” AI policy is particularly strong – including as a way of making Europe more attractive than other jurisdictions around the world. Close cooperation between Europe and the US is not a given: Europe sees the US as its main competitor in AI; the US wants to join forces against China on AI, but European interest in such a front is weak. The non-combat military realm...

Human Rights Violations in China: World Must Form Alliances, Impose Sanctions, and Unite Against Beijing Regime, Webinar Hears China’s lucrative market and economic opportunities have kept the West distracted from—or tolerant of—its human rights violations, but 2020 saw people waking up to the severity of the matter and the communist regime’s broader threat to the world, an online conference heard. Experts on human rights and international affairs came together on Jan. 14 in a webinar e...

 SOUTH KOREA’S CORRUPT AND DANGEROUS NUCLEAR INDUSTRY “During the eighteen months from the beginning of 2012 to mid- 2013, major corruption incidents occurred in the nuclear power industry in every country currently seeking to export nuclear reactors: the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Russia, France, and China….. “In the Korean case, systemic nuclear industry corruption was found Supplementary Submission to the Victorian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Environment an...

SSI Securities Corporation was conferred the title of ‘Labour Hero in the Đổi Mới (Renewal) period’ at a ceremony in HCM City on December 27, making it the first stock brokerage to be so honoured.

April 21, 2020  Last July, Ohio’s governor signed House Bill 6 (HB6) to provide FirstEnergy (now Energy Harbor), a large electric utility, with subsidies of nearly $150 million per year to keep its Perry and Davis-Besse nuclear power plants operating. Ohio is only the fifth US state to offer such subsidies; other states include New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Although the subsidies are justified by some as necessary for climate mitigation, in the latter four states, elect...

Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Among Recipients of COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Chinese state-owned enterprises were found to be recipients of Canada’s COVID-19 wage subsidy benefit. In an effort to push for transparency, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) launched a search registry on Monday to help Canadians track employers who have been receiving the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the recipients, Chinese state-owned companies and non-profit organizations with...