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Report: Pandemic Killed 1.6 Million Tourism Jobs Across Asia in 2020

The coronavirus pandemic triggered a partial collapse of Asia’s tourism sector last year, eliminating 1.6 million jobs across five Asian countries, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported Thursday. The ILO, a United Nations (U.N.) agency, released a report on November 18 in which it detailed the pandemic’

Bidenflation: Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Hit Record High, Up 14% From Last Year

This year’s Thanksgiving dinner will be the most expensive on record.

Sorry England: Amazon to Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in UK

E-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it will no longer accept payments made with Visa credit cards issued in the UK, blaming the decision on high fees.

Taliban Lets People Fly out of Kabul – but at Impossible Prices

Tickets for international flights out of Kabul’s main airport are prohibitively expensive, meaning most people in Afghanistan are unable to fly abroad, Tolo News reported Thursday.

Biden's Soaring Food Costs Strike the Hungry at Local Food Banks

President Joe Biden’s soaring food costs are impacting the hungry at local food banks across the nation.

DISCUSS: COP26 gets underway…

The big day is here – today the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, better known as COP26, begins in Glasgow. It follows on the G20 meeting in Rome.

The Magic of Scorpio Season: Horoscopes for The Season of The Witch

Autumn is filled with intrigue and mystery.As the leaves begin their decay into orange splendor, the spirit of The Season of The Witch arrives.

Sydney Lifting Quarantine Rule for Travellers with Vax and Negative Test

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Sydney will end hotel quarantine for vaccinated passengers when scheduled international flights restart in Australia within two weeks, officials said on Friday, while maintaining some restrictions on foreigners entering the country. Vaccinated travellers who test negative for COVID-19 before flying to Australia’s largest city would be

Biden Administration Lauds International Agreement on 15% Minimum Corporate Tax

The Biden Administration celebrated an international agreement among 130 countries on Friday to accept a minimum corporate tax rate of 15%.

UK Govt Pressed Biden on One-Sided Failure to Ease Travel Restrictions

A frustrated Boris Johnson had to press Joe Biden over his failure to act on a pledge to ease travel restrictions on British citizens, months after Britain did the same for American citizens.

North Korea Controls Youth Through ‘Hard Labor’

North Korea’s economy has taken a hit as the country’s borders remain sealed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Scientists Propose That We Can Travel Faster Than The Speed of Light

A new paper suggest travel faster than the speed of light might be possible given the creation of a new way of looking at propelling a vehicle.

These Anti-Solar Panels Don’t Require Daylight To Generate Power

A new approach to solar panels attempts to generate energy during the night, when there is no sunlight to turn into energy.

Farmers’ Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture

With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child malnourishment, growing unemployment, increased informalisation, indebtedness and an overall collapse of agriculture. Given that India is still an agrarian-based society, renowned journalist P Sainath says

Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism

In the above short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdown and times of crisis farmers are treated like “gods”, but when they ask for their rights, they are smeared and labelled as “terrorists”. He, along with thousands of other