AFP, Paris : From disinformation campaigns to soaring scepticism, plummeting trust and economic slumps, the global media landscape has been hit with blow after blow.World News Day, taking place on Saturday with the support of hundreds of organisations including AFP, aims to raise awareness about the challenges endangering the hard-pressed industry.In 2022, UNESCO warned that “the business model of the news media is broken”.Advertising revenue — the lifeline of news publications — has dried up in recent years, with Internet...
Day: September 28, 2024
AFP, Hong Kong : Hong Kong and Shanghai ploughed on with their China-fuelled rally Friday on hopes that Beijing will press on with new plans to boost the world’s number two economy.A string of announcements this week has seen leaders cut interest rates, pledge support to the beleaguered property sector, free up banks to lend more and pledge to boost jobs, particularly for the poor.While analysts have warned that the measures — the boldest in years — will not on...
AFP, Buenos Aires : Poverty in Argentina rose to affect over 52 percent of the population in the first six months of self-declared “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei’s presidency, according to official data released Thursday.The report for the first half of 2024 showed that 52.9 percent of Argentina’s 47 million people now live in poverty and nearly one in five are indigent.The poverty figure was up from 41.7 percent in the second half of 2023, said the INDEC statistics agency.Since taking office...
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed : The interim government has started its journey under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus...
The government’s recent decision to eliminate the need for ministry approval before migrant workers can travel abroad is a much-needed reform that promises to streamline the migration process, according to the lead story of our newspaper on Friday. We know it has been a bureaucratic red tape for years that required approval from the relevant embassy, the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare, and BMET – causing significant delays, often leading to missed employment opportunities. The business in the manpower recruiting industry,...
AFP : A landslide at an illegal gold mine in western Indonesia has killed at least 15 people and buried...
Deutsche Welle : We know that pregnancy completely changes a mother’s body, but new research shows changes in the brain...
News Desk : Kolkata’s tram system, which has been a part of the city’s landscape since 1873, is set to come to an end. India’s West Bengal government has decided to discontinue the service due to challenges posed by the city’s traffic, reports NDTV.However, one route will remain operational. Kolkata, the last city in India with a functioning tram system, will now only maintain the route between Esplanade and Maidan. This route is intended as a nostalgic experience, offering a...
AFP : The death toll from ongoing sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan has risen to at least 37, with more than 150 injured in fighting that has raged for a sixth straight day, a local official told AFP on Friday.The Kurram district, formerly a semi-autonomous area, has a history of bloody confrontations between tribes belonging to the Sunni and Shia sects of Islam that have claimed hundreds of lives over the years. July clashes over land involving the same tribes...
AFP : More than 3,600 people have been killed this year in the “senseless” gang violence ravaging Haiti, the United...
Al Jazeera : Donald Trump has said he will meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy after criticising the Ukrainian president on the campaign...