The 2023 Human Rights Watch World Report, launched today (Thursday), examines the state of human rights in 102 countries and territories in 2022. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges governments to meet their […]
Covid-19: pressure mounts for a full, independent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2
This article has been updated. Latest update: 13/8/2021. Pressure is mounting for a full, independent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2. That pressure is coming from scientists around the world and individual […]
SARS-CoV-2: WHO-China report dismisses lab-origin hypothesis as being ‘extremely unlikely’
This article has been updated. Latest update: 5/6/2021. The report of the ‘Joint WHO-China Study’ of the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 holds no surprises. Its main messages – that a lab origin […]
SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction (audio digest)
The audio digest of ‘SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction’ is now online:
SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction
This article has been updated. Latest update 29/3/2021 Audio digest (before updates): French translation (before updates) @ France Soir. Researchers say there’s evidence within the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that suggests the virus […]
Covid-19: as vaccine race gains pace, the origins and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 intrigue scientists
This article has been updated to include information about the two reports published by exiled scientist Li-Meng Yan et al. (Updates at the end of the article.) Six months on from the […]
Covid-19: hydroxychloroquine treatment rejected by giants of the global health establishment
This article has been updated. (Updates at the end of the article.) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed the drug hydroxychloroquine from its Solidarity trial, in which possible treatments for Covid-19 […]
Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases (audio digest)
The audio digest of “Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases” is now online:
Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases
Audio digest of this article: See updates (at the end of this article) about the WHO resuming its hydroxychloroquine trial and three of the authors of the controversial article about hydroxychloroquine published […]
Covid-19: world locks down as coronavirus spread accelerates
New information has been added to this article (updates at the end), but the statistics are as of the date of publication. Up-to-date statistics can be found here. At 18/4/2020 the number […]
Asia for Animals: conference speakers call for tougher laws and changes in behaviour
DALIAN CONFERENCE, PART TWO. The 11th Asia for Animals conference, which took place in Dalian, China, brought together hundreds of delegates from all fields of animal protection, rescue, and advocacy. Focused on […]
Asia for Animals: China conference focuses on using laws creatively to protect animals
DALIAN CONFERENCE, PART ONE. The 11th Asia for Animals (AfA) symposium, which has just taken place in Dalian, China, was focused on how laws can be used creatively to protect nonhuman animals. […]
Asia for Animals: China conference will focus on using laws creatively to protect animals
The 11th Asia for Animals (AfA) symposium will take place in Dalian, China, from October 18 to 20, 2019. The theme is using laws creatively to protect animals. More than four hundred […]
MH370 families call for new search, but media focus on ‘rogue pilot’ theory
As the governments involved in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 warn that the operation in the southern Indian Ocean will be suspended soon if no evidence is found, and the […]
Asia for Animals: a catalogue of cruelty – with glimmers of hope
Delegates at the Asia for Animals conference in Kuching on Malaysian Borneo heard about the horrors of the dog meat trade, the decline in animal populations, and the devastation being caused by […]
Asia for Animals conference: the horrors of illegal wildlife trading and live exports
In a call to action at the 2015 Asia for Animals conference, the CEO of International Animal Rescue, Alan Knight, urged delegates to call on YouTube and Google to adopt an animal […]
Pandas come to Kuala Lumpur
French sculptor Paulo Grangeon has brought his “1,600 pandas” exhibition to Malaysia to raise awareness about the number of the animals now left in the wild. Grangeon braved the heat and jetlag […]
Plane crew spots possible debris in new MH370 search zone
Five of the reconnaissance aircraft scouring the southern Indian Ocean today for wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 found objects that could be debris from the plane. The objects were sighted […]
New satellite images narrow MH370 search
Satellite images, provided to Malaysia by Airbus Defence and Space in France, show 122 potential objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370. […]
Chinese MH370 families protest over ‘fatal crash’ announcement
The chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Mohammad Nor Yusof, said today that, based on the new evidence announced by Malaysia’s prime minister yesterday, it had to be accepted that flight MH370 was lost […]