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Observers say company bears responsibility to support local growers.

The voices of world leaders are always heard everywhere -- from the UN to COP26

It can be embarrassing for a China scholar like me to read Eileen Chang’s pellucid prose, written more than sixty years ago, on the early years of the People’s Republic of China. How many cudgels to the head did I need before arriving at comparable clarity? My disillusioning first trip to China in 1973? My reading of the devastating journalism of Liu Binyan in 1980?

In April of 2018, the Iceland grocery store chain released a video featuring its managing director, 
Richard Walker, on a 
research trip in Borneo. “We went expecting to see some palm oil plantations and some forest clearance,” Walker says in a voiceover, as we watch him descending the steps of a regional airplane, 
sunglasses perched on his head, and clambering over fallen logs in a 
dense rainforest. “But nothing prepared 
me for the industrial scale of what we saw. We witnessed an environmental disaster zone.” The video concluded with the announcement that Iceland would...

Koena Mitra: Powerful organisations using farmers protest as ‘weapon’ to divide us By IANS|   Published: 3rd February 2021 4:35 pm IST Mumbai, Feb 3 : Powerful organisations are using the ongoing farmers’ protest in India as a weapon to divide us, actress Koena Mitra tweeted on Wednesday. It all began with international pop star Rihanna tweeting about the farmers’ protest in India, expressing her support to the movement. “why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest,” Rihanna tweeted on Tuesday. Reacting to her tweet, Koena took a jibe at the pop star and wrote: “The so...