August 2022

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this fall will determine China’s political direction for the next five years. A key agenda item hinges on the answer to one question posed to members of the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), the most important policy-making group in China: What is your age? Implicit is that Xi Jinping, the 69-year-old general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and president of China, need not answer. But for other members of the PSC, age is more than just a number. Sixty-eight is the accepted retirement age for the committee members, who are

Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya Muslims are marking a solemn anniversary this week. On August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military began a brutal “clearance operation” in response to government reports that a Rohingya insurgent group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA, had attacked more than 30 police outposts in Rakhine State. The disproportionate response from Myanmar security forces, which commenced at daybreak, drove an estimated 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh over the following weeks, and led to charges of genocide against the Myanmar army leaders. The death toll rose quickly. An estimated 6,700 Rohingya were killed in

“In Malta, we currently have 112 companies or private investments from India, but it is necessary that in the trade sector we continue to develop the relationship we have with India, and above all, we also see to increasing our exports to India.” This was stated by Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade Ian Borg during a press statement and a bilateral meeting held with the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture of India Meenakshi Lekhi. During the bilateral meeting that took place at the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade in Valletta, Minister

Blueberry bison tamales, harvest salad with mixed greens, creamy carrot and wild rice soup, roasted turkey with squash. This contemporary Native American meal, crafted from the traditional foods of tribes across the United States and prepared with “Ketapanen” – a Menominee expression of love – cost caterer Jessica Pamonicutt $976 to feed a group of 50 people last November. Today it costs her nearly double. Pamonicutt is the executive chef of Chicago-based Native American catering business Ketapanen Kitchen. She is a citizen of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin but was raised in the Windy City, home to one of

British health authorities will begin offering eligible people just a fraction of the normal monkeypox vaccine dose to stretch supplies by about five times, in line with similar decisions to extend available doses in Europe and the U.S. In a statement Monday, Britain’s Health Security Agency said patients at clinics in Manchester and London would soon get just one fifth the regular monkeypox vaccine dose as part of ongoing research, citing earlier work suggesting the smaller dose provided as effective an immune response as a full dose. Last week, the European Medicines Agency authorized the move for its 27 members

Today’s sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bites, new research suggests.For their study published Wednesday, re…