Category: News

  • Trump on US auto industry: Buy American, Hire American

    Trump on US auto industry: Buy American, Hire American

    American automobile manufacturers will bring jobs back to America, under US President Donald Trump, the White House said in a statement released March 15. Ford revealed its plan of canceling a plant in Mexico and generating 700 jobs in Michigan. General Motors, on the other hand, announced of investing $1 billion in the US, creating…

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  • Globalization of Asian tobacco companies is a looming threat to public health

    Globalization of Asian tobacco companies is a looming threat to public health

    Asian tobacco companies have began exporting their brands to fast growing markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Middle East, based on a new study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of York and Simon Fraser University, Canada. Their globalization should raise international concern on public health, according to the researchers. The study…

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  • Predicting terrorist behaviors by 90 percent possible, say university researchers

    Predicting terrorist behaviors by 90 percent possible, say university researchers

    Terrorists have become more careful when using the power of social media and telecommunication systems in planning for their attacks, which is why governments can’t always rely on these tools to discover their intentions. But a team of researchers from Binghamton University and State University of New York proposed a new framework called Networked Pattern…

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  • Hunger persists in chronic conflict zones despite strong global harvests – UN

    Hunger persists in chronic conflict zones despite strong global harvests – UN

    Despite robust food supply conditions, droughts are worsening food security across swathes of East Africa, and access to food has been dramatically reduced in areas suffering civil conflicts, a new United Nations report has found. “This is an unprecedented situation. Never before have we been faced with four threats of famine in multiple countries simultaneously,”…

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  • A traditional Chinese herbal medicine may hold the key to treating HIV/AIDS

    A traditional Chinese herbal medicine may hold the key to treating HIV/AIDS

    Nine individuals with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were now found to have low to undetectable Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and in good health, after receiving treatment using a rare formula of a traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCM). The patients, aged 51 to 67, received said treatment from 2001 to 2006, or even longer, with or…

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  • Haitian Government, UN and partners launch two-year plan aimed at saving lives, building resilience

    Haitian Government, UN and partners launch two-year plan aimed at saving lives, building resilience

    The United Nations together with relief organizations in Haiti have launched a two-year, $291 million response plan with the Government to reach more than 2.4 million people across the island that was struck by a devastating hurricane last October. “With more than 98 per cent of Haitians exposed to two or more types of disasters,…

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  • UK government to tighten up laws on laser attacks

    UK government to tighten up laws on laser attacks

    Shining laser pens at aircrafts, trains, and buses to distract the pilots and drivers is extremely dangerous that could bring about deadly consequences to the public, which is why the British government has decided to impose new and tougher powers such as jail sentence or penalties amounting to thousands of pounds to offenders. “Whilst we know…

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  • Standards on extreme thinness in fashion industry are worrying: Study

    Standards on extreme thinness in fashion industry are worrying: Study

    A new study has found that female models in the fashion industry reported that pressure to lose weight is very high, which leads to a higher possibility of getting involved in unhealthy habits in controlling weight. “The American fashion industry has the opportunity now to join France, Israel, Milan, Madrid, and others, where governments have…

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  • Sleepovers at dad’s house benefit children of divorced families

    Sleepovers at dad’s house benefit children of divorced families

    Moms who worry about frequent sleepovers or overnights of children at their dad’s house should read this: a new study conducted by researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) found that children coming from divorced families, no matter the age, will benefit from spending time with each parent, which includes sleeping over at each home. “Not…

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  • Mexico City has worst air pollution in Western Hemisphere

    Mexico City has worst air pollution in Western Hemisphere

    Mexico City’s air quality is said to be the worst in the Western Hemisphere to the point that, in the past decades, birds would even fall from the sky already dead. Locals, on the other hand, described that living in the city was comparable to smoking two cigarette packs daily. This growing concern prompted the…

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  • Kids are not OK: Food and beverage industry marketing them to death

    Kids are not OK: Food and beverage industry marketing them to death

    A charitable organization in Canada found that the children and the youth are bombarded daily with advertisements of unhealthy products that influence their choices on food and beverages, eventually leading to damaging health effects and conflicts at home. Heart & Stroke, a foundation that’s 60-years-long been dedicated to fighting stroke and heart disease, revealed this…

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  • Australian passport holders exempted from Trump’s EO on travel ban

    Australian passport holders exempted from Trump’s EO on travel ban

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