With more than 1.3 billion residents, China enjoys a reputation as the world’s most populous nation. There are currently 300 million smokers in China, and an astounding 1 million people die every year from the effects of cancer. When I lived in Guangzhou, about an hour north of Hong Kong, in the mid 1990s, a friend purchased four cartons of Marlboro cigarettes as a present for her father at Chinese
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – New HIV infections in India could rise for the first time in more than a decade because states are mismanaging a prevention program by delaying payments to health workers, the United Nations envoy for AIDS in Asia and the Pacific said. India’s efforts to fight HIV have for years centered around community-based programs run for people at high risk of contracting the virus,
SACRAMENTO, Calif./LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law the state’s first comprehensive regulations of medical marijuana, two decades after legalization fueled a wild west of disparate local rules, a gray market in cultivation and concerns about the ease of obtaining the drug. The package of three laws, viewed by some as a possible framework for the eventual legalization of recreational marijuana in the most
By Alisa Tang RATTAPHUM, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The strapping 23-year-old Rohingya Muslim was matter of fact as he described being forced onto a boat in Myanmar for a tortuous two-month-long journey, beaten and kicked by traffickers as he watched scores die of starvation and thirst along the way. On many evenings in this compound of cement buildings that has become home to 66 male Rohingya trafficking victims from
Northampton Town extended their unbeaten run in Sky Bet League 2 to six games with a 2-1 victory over Hartlepool United.
Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal have enjoyed a record-breaking rivalry at the summit of their sport and will play for the 45th time at the China Open final.
Why spend another Thanksgiving watching football on the sofa in a tryptophan-induced food coma when you could be out exploring the world? Whether you want to experience the holiday in a different way or laze on a warm beach and forget about it altogether, late November can be a great time to get out of town and try something new. From warm Caribbean islands to wintry European wonderlands, we’ve rounded
Imagine you’re a child. Imagine you’re out in the park one day, and you find a shiny 50p. Also, imagine it’s the 90s. Stick with me here. You take your hard-earned pocket money to the corner shop, selecting for yourself a paper bag of sherbet lemons and some Opal Fruits (“what excellent, historically accurate detail,” you say. “I am so totally immersed right now”). The huge, hairy shopkeeper looms at
What do Wiz Khalifa, Mark Ronson, Meghan Trainor, Enrique Iglesias, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Psy all have in common? As you might have guessed if you read the headline, they all have videos with more than a billion views on YouTube. Khalifa’s See You Again, a tribute to the late Paul Walker and featured on the Furious 7 soundtrack album, is the newest member of that exclusive
Small donors are the ones shaping the 2016 presidential campaign, so far.