Tony Henderson

The Rakhine Buddhists are demonstrating against the Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya but it needs to be noted that these local minority group Muslims have been living without especial difficulties around Rakhine region for centuries. They are part of general society. They…

David and Katharine Lowrie have a mission: running 5,000 miles in one year, from the southern tip of Chile to northern Colombia, to benefit the continent’s wildlife and wild places. The intrepid Lawries will finish running the Carretera Austral, Aysén’s…

The recent announcements of the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, seen both awards given for work centring on transfers of information. “While the prize-winning physics predictably involved brain bending quantum mechanics, the chemistry prize focused not on test tube…

There was a lot of excitement last Sunday 9 September as Hong Kong went to the polls to vote into power the 70-member Legislative Council, a body stacked with “functional constituencies” that give pro-Beijing parties a guaranteed majority. However, 35…

“Here the situation is really tense. Heavy contingent of police being deployed. Police have stopped public transport. Sand bags are at the entry points of the Tirunelveli district coastal villages including Idinthakarai. Vehicles are screened. Normal life is heavily disrupted.…

The South African envoy has observed that Zambia’s contribution to the emancipation of southern Africa makes the country ideal for the creation of a city to be a “symbol of the liberation” in Africa. Moses Chikane said that he has…

by JANICE BURDON as appeared in Hudson Gazette The more attention we give to socially unacceptable behaviour like bullying, the more we create awareness. This awareness, in the long run, will hopefully bring about a change in attitude. When I went…

2012 World Conference against A and H Bombs was held successfully on Aug. 2-9 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Declaration of the International Meeting Sixty-seven years after the US atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 20,000 nuclear weapons…

Under the already grey superstructures of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp Central building on the afternoon of 27 August, 2012, there was an air of desolation lifting from the sad chairs and tables, grimy tents. The incumbents were…

Sixty-seven years after the US atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 20,000 nuclear weapons are still threatening the very survival of the human race. This threat must be rooted out as soon as possible. We call on people around the world to work together to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. The accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011 has brought the horror of the nuclear dangers into sharper relief. We extend our solidarity with all nuclear victims.