The Chief People Officer (CPO) of Uber, Liane Hornsey, has reportedly retired from the company. And even though Uber did not give any specific reasons why she left, reports suggest that she was accused of racial discrimination. Horney joined the organization in January 2017. Racism by Liane Hornsey and Uber A few employees of color ...
More than 215,000 children in China were found to have been injected with faulty vaccines during the country’s mandatory vaccination campaign. And though there have been no reports of negative side effects, people are furious over the carelessness of the country’s healthcare system. The faulty vaccines The DPT vaccine manufactured by Chinese pharmaceutical company Changchun Changsheng ...
India’s IT sector generated revenues of around US$160 billion in 2017. Roughly US$99 billion came from exports, while US$48 billion was generated from the domestic market. And as India continues to grow at a rapid pace, the IT sector is poised to play a major role in helping the country morph into the massive superpower ...
The U.S. administration has passed a new policy that restricts visas to Chinese students to just one year in a few fields of study. While the move has garnered opposition from people who say that it is “racist,” the American intelligence community sees it as a necessary action to protect the country. Restricting visas to ...
Described by Forbes magazine in 1996 as “one of the world’s most surprising art collections,” the Chimei Museum (奇美博物館) is located in southern Taiwan’s Tainan City. It was established in 1992 by renowned Taiwanese entrepreneur Shi Wen-long (許文龍), founder of the Chi Mei Corporation and an art lover and amateur violinist. It features the world’s largest ...
The Real Bodies Exhibition has again attracted controversy, this time in the UK where a doctor has questioned the source of the plastinated corpses put on show. Dr. David Nicholl, a consultant neurologist at a Birmingham hospital, told The Guardian (in an article now only online via the South China Morning Post) that the plastinated ...
The U.S. decision to impose tariffs on Chinese imports is being characterized as the start of the U.S.-China trade war. But unlike what most people think, the U.S. does not want a trade war with China. Instead, it simply wants the Chinese to honor international trade agreements and conduct their trade fairly. And to this ...
Nestled between Pingtung County (屏東縣) in southern Taiwan and Taitung County (台東縣) in the east, the Alangyi Ancient Trail (阿塱壹古道) used to be an important route for aboriginal tribes for hunting, migrating, and trading goods between the eastern part and the southwestern plains of Taiwan in ancient times. Alangyi is derived from Aljungic, the name ...
Sam Brownback, the U.S Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, said: “We will build alliances around the world to resist religious persecution and witness its end. Together, we will defeat this evil!” Just recently, delegations from more than 80 countries and more than 40 ministerial officials attended the first Ministerial Conference for Religious Freedom organized by ...
Cannons, hand grenades, and up to a thousand soldiers were on board the large Swedish warship when it exploded in the Baltic Sea 454 years ago. The ship, known as Mars, belonged to the Swedish navy and was one of Northern Europe’s largest and most feared naval vessels used in the Northern Seven Years’ War. ...
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