July2016

News Hour: Barcelona’s Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison and fined 2 million euros ($2.2 million) after being found guilty of three counts of tax fraud, although it...

News Hour: Over 750 women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s volatile north-eastern province of Ituri have set up agricultural cooperatives and small businesses as part of an inclusive programme called ‘Peace is the...

News Hour: IOM last week renewed its cooperation agreement with the Nairobi-based African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). Speaking at the signing ceremony at APHRC, IOM Southern Africa Regional Director Josiah Ogina said: “This agreement...

News Hour: IOM Kuwait has launched a study on the effects of social networks on Kuwait’s labour market. The launch also doubled as a consultation for 15 government officials from the country’s Public Authority for Manpower...

News Hour: The adoption of new guidance on osteoporosis medication in 2005 may have been responsible for a 22% drop in the number of over-60s suffering a second fracture after a broken hip, an Oxford University...

News Hour: UN Special Envoy for El Niño and Climate, Mary Robinson, is on a three-day trip to Ethiopia with Concern Worldwide, Trocaire and Goal Global at the moment. Ethiopia is currently facing its worst drought...

News Hour: Transparency International, the global anti-corruption group, will examine transparency levels of emerging market companies in a new study to be released on Monday, 11 July 2016. Now in its second edition, Transparency in Corporate...

CEO of BNNRC Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman who is also a celebrity community media policy advocate and journalist has been selected for the second time as one of the member in a jury panel in...

News Hour: The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety issues the following statement in response to the tragic events which unfolded in Dhaka this past weekend. “In the wake of last week’s violent attack in the diplomatic...

News Hour: Under suitably somber skies, a few hundred students, staff and faculty gathered on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday to mourn the death, and celebrate the life, of Tarishi Jain, the Berkeley student killed in last...