The tragedy of people fleeing their lands in order to survive, have a future, and hope for a better life doesn’t involve only the Mediterranean Sea. On the other side of the world there are the Rohingya people, which are officially recognised by the United Nations as the world’s most persecuted and segregated population. The
Located on the banks of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is one of the seven United Arab Emirates. This city, renowned for its magnificent skyscrapers, including Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world, is changing course and becoming one of the most sustainable cities in the world as it prepares to be the host
The rice cluster is now open. Explore six among the countries with the largest production and consumption of rice. Touch, taste and, why not, buy.
The opportunity of building cycle superhighways, as the one planned for London, has been recently discussed and they will likely be a future trend. However, in South Korea, a cycle superhighway has been built in the middle of a motorway About 30 km long, the route links Daejeon (South Korea’s fifth largest metropolis) with
Deforestation in Indonesia. To begin with, it would be useful if you could give us some figures on deforestation in your country. What effects has the government’s moratorium of 2011 had on deforestation, and what effects is it currently having? The moratorium hasn’t had significant effects since it was introduced in 2011. The deforestation rate
Today, 24th April 2015, one hundred years have passed since the slaughter of the Armenian people, maybe the most controversial and darkest moment in the history of the Twentieth century. Controversial because it is much criticised and denied. Dark because, at a distance of a century, it is not possible to know exactly
We’ve already talked about the flowering of sakura in Japan, and about hanami. All that’s left is to enjoy this stunning high-definition video of blossoming cherry trees that shows the extraordinary beauty Japanese people can admire during the spring. The footage is by Gaijin Tips.
Piplantri, a small Indian village located in the north-western Rajasthan State, celebrates female newborns with planting trees. It is a countertrend compared to the Indian subcontinent, where the birth of a girl child is generally considered anything but a blessing. Due to prenatal ultrasounds, able to indicate foetus’ gender, millions of female
Death penalty remains an exception on Earth. This hopeful sentence describes well what was said in the Amnesty International’s new report on the death sentences executed in 2014. The official number (607) has dropped by 22 percent with respect to 2013 while the number of the countries that carried out at least an execution is the
Between 2009 and 2012 Brazil and Indonesia were given 346 million dollars by the U.N. – mostly from Norway and Germany – to preserve rainforests. But this good piece of news is completely omitted in the report written by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), according to which in the same period those countries have spent
