By Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Updated 1336 GMT (2136 HKT) July 8, 20 Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)A young man with a swagger approaches a dumpster. An employee from a nearby restaurant has […]
Ms Ivy Sam of organic farm Homegrown Farms says many people asked for farming workshops during the Movement Control Order which started on March 18.PHOTO: HOMEGROWN FARMS PUBLISHED JUL 7, […]
Image of a virtual marriage ceremony held in Dhaka recently. (Supplied) Short Url https://arab.news/87sqh Lockdown restrictions mean more people opt for virtual weddings SHEHAB SUMON July 07, 2020 DHAKA: There were days when Khalilur Rahman Sardar would struggle to take a lunch break during office hours. As one of Bangladesh’s […]
AHMED DANYAL ARIF ECONOMICS 29th June 2020 Ahmed Danyal Arif, UK Despite many prior warnings, a number of developed countries were clearly unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. This monumental failure of […]
Gaby Hinsliff Open the schools, by all means – but that will not be enough to combat the emotional aftershocks of the Covid-19 crisis Sat 13 Jun 2020 ‘The truth […]
I have the pleasure to live (some of the time) in North West Lombok, Indonesia. This part of Lombok is most developed in the tourist industry. For the last four years – pre-Corona – we never heard of any crime here. We did hear of some robberies […]
Written by Ryan McMaken Monday May 25, 2020 Media pundits and politicians are now in the habit of claiming it was the pandemic itself that has caused unemployment to skyrocket […]
Businesses are being forced to close as social distancing to avoid COVID-19 takes hold Timothy Fadek—Redux By Alana Semuels March 18, 2020 Sonia Bautista was living paycheck to paycheck […]
Kuwaiti men in polygamous marriages are struggling to split their time between their wives who live in separate homes… May 20, 2020 source:
World NewsMay 22, 2020 Wahyuwidi Cinthya, Johan Purnomo BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) – A zoo in Indonesia may slaughter some of its animals to feed others, such as a Sumatran […]
Source: Independent Only one in five harmful drinkers received the professional support they needed before the Covid-19 crisis By Ian Hamilton; @ian_hamilton One of the safest predictions you could have […]
Lockdowns around the world are helping us to defeat the virus that causes Covid-19, but they may also unleash an even bigger public health crisis Bilal Hassam @bilalhassam 12 hours […]
THE JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN In an unprecedented call for action on Lebanon’s turbulent domestic front, the UN Security Council has urged the Lebanese authorities “to respond to […]
By Grégoire Barbey May 5, 2020 – swissinfo.ch The endless queues for food bags in Geneva show that while the health crisis seems to be subsiding, the economic crisis has […]
Apr 28, 2020 – An online Ramadan bazaar trader wraps “Popiah” spring rolls at his home, during the movement control order due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), […]
In all the uncountable articles on the present economic crisis unleashed due to the covid-19 pandemic I find the above the most interesting. We purchase only what we need – […]
MIT Technology Review Contrary to what you’ve heard, shutting down the country is also the quickest way to get it started back up again by David Rotman April 8, 2020 Francesco Ciccolella In the first employment report after social distancing measures had taken hold in many US states, […]
By George Monbiot for THE GUARDIAN This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers ‘Governments […]
26th April 2020 Shahzeb Athar, Jamia Ahmadiyya UK The world as we know it has drastically taken a turn into unprecedented waters, a turn so uncharted that the entire economic outlook seems dire and calamitous. I, nevertheless, deem it quite hard to believe that anyone could have predicted an […]
What is remarkable is how quickly the bonds of employer and employee are severed in the American economy, and how quickly businesses — but not their employees — get handouts […]
