China’s faces serious demographic crisis as its rapidly ageing migrant workforce can’t afford to retire
Pensions in China are based on an internal passport system known as hukou, which divides the population along urban-rural lines, creating vast differences in incomes and access to social services. Monthly urban pensions range from roughly 3,000 yuan in less-developed provinces to about 6,000 yuan in Beijing and Shanghai. Rural pensions, introduced nationwide in 2009, are meagre.
World Bank is transforming homosexuality into a political tool to graft Western values on Ugandans
Unlike in the case of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (2014) when the Uganda Constitutional Court ruled that it violated human rights, in the case of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, it on April 3 2024 ruled to uphold the law. However, institutions such as Human Rights Watch were not happy. They argue that the law has abusive and radical provisions, entrenches discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ and makes them prone to further violence.
Barons behind the brands: Money, power, povery and the corruption of America’s food industry
Being from rural Iowa and witnessing the 1980s Farm Crisis take hold of my family and neighbours, “Barons” takes a long overdue stand for the farm community of my youth. It’s a painful loss knowing that today’s industrial food system rises from the ashes of America’s family farms. And it is no accident.
US Methodist Church unbans homosexuality, now defines marriage as between ‘two people of faith’ not man and woman
Also approved was a measure that forbids district superintendents – or regional administrators – from penalising clergy for either performing a same-sex wedding or for refraining from performing one. It also prohibits superintendents from forbidding a church from hosting a same-sex wedding or requiring it to.
Pot ‘crackers’ in US celebrate reclassification of marijuana but move won’t get drug pushers out of jail
Biden, a Democrat, supports legalising medical marijuana for use “where appropriate, consistent with medical and scientific evidence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on April 25, 2024. “That is why it is important for this independent review to go through.”
New era for US drugs regulation as Biden administration reclassifies cannabis but pot businesses still can’t find a bank
Most Americans live in states where marijuana is legally available in some form. But there’s a continuing problem when it comes to banks: Many financial institutions don’t want anything to do with money from the cannabis industry for fear it could expose them to legal trouble from the federal government, which still lists marijuana as illegal.
Questions linger over marijuana legalisation, scars of drug war on Blacks and minorities in US
In Washington, an applicant must own more than half the business and meet other criteria, such as having lived for at least five years between 1980 and 2010 in an area with high poverty, unemployment or cannabis arrest rates; having been arrested for a cannabis-related crime; or having a below-median household income.
Covid cover-up: White House will never earn trust back from Americans by deeming information that it doesn’t like as misinformation
Upon questioning by Representative Debbie Dingell (Democratic-Michigan) and Representative Deborah Ross (Democratic-North Carolina) about communications between Fauci, Collins and Thorp in May 2021, Thorp said they supported an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 at the time and did not dissuade Science from publishing the Bloom letter.
Song and dance by ABBA, Blondie and Notorious B.I.G that dazzled US in golden era enter prestigious National Recording Registry
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced the 25 new titles in the class of 2024 on Tuesday, saying in a statement that they are “worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”
US Supreme Court declines Black Lives Matter activist’s appeal over protest incident that injured police officer
The Baton Rouge protest was one of numerous demonstrations in the United States in 2015 and 2016 arising from incidents involving police and Black individuals. These predated the massive racial justice protests that flared in various cities in the United States and abroad following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
