Asia's Prisons Are Filling Up
Many Are Victims Of The
War On Drugs
By Preeti Jha, for CNN
Country is entering a dangerous new phase of rising infections in small towns and villages with limited access to healthcare
Andy Gregory
Many Are Victims Of The
War On Drugs
By Preeti Jha, for CNN
It was dark when the plane touched down in Hong Kong from Phnom Penh. Noor Yuni swiftly cleared immigration and collected her luggage. But as she approached the "nothing to declare" lane, a customs officer pulled her aside, she says.
The 21-year-old Indonesian's bag was put into the security scanner and she remembers agreeing to be searched.
By the time officers had slashed open the lining of her backpack and dislodged the white crystals concealed inside, Yuni said she knew she'd been tricked.
India's invisible catastrophe: fears over spread of Covid-19 into poor rural areas
Country is entering a dangerous new phase of rising infections in small towns and villages with limited access to healthcare
Where better to seek sanctuary from a virus roaring through a crowded metropolis than a remote mountainside with views of the Himalayas?
This was the reasoning that prompted Lalit Upreti, 34, to leave the Indian capital, Delhi, where he works as a cook, two months ago to return to his hamlet Khankari in Uttarakhand, near the country’s border with Nepal. Here, he thought, his family would be safe.
Coronavirus: South Korean churchgoers refuse to get tested as expert warns ‘medical system could collapse’
Police pursuing 700 members of congregation after many attended 10,000-strong rallyAndy Gregory
South Korea is warning of a looming coronavirus crisis that could cause the country’s medical system to “collapse” following the emergence of its largest outbreak in six months, centred around a church where hundreds of followers have been infected and others are evading testing.
The country has often served as a byword for successful mitigation of the virus, using extensive – albeit intrusive – contact-tracing measures to head off persistent spikes in infection.
However, after a fourth day of three-figure rises in new cases on Saturday, when 197 cases were reported, the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) issued a stark warning.
Germany's biggest union calls for 4-day week to save thousands of jobs
Germany's automotive and industrial sectors were already undergoing huge structural changes before the pandemic struck. The IG Metall union thinks a shorter working week could now help prevent mass layoffs.
Germany's largest trade union IG Metall proposed a four-day working week ahead of the next round of collective bargaining talks due to begin next year, reported German media on Saturday.
The shorter week would be "the answer to structural changes in sectors such as the automotive industry," said union chair Jörg Hoffman to German national newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
"With this, jobs in the industry can be kept instead of being written off," added Hoffman.
Google says Australia's anti-trust law would put free search services 'at risk'
Google on Monday criticised proposed Australian anti-trust laws, saying its free search service would be "at risk" and users' personal data could be shared if it is made to pay news organisations for their content.
The internet giant said the proposed laws would also help big media companies artificially inflate their search rankings, luring more viewers to their platforms and giving them an unfair advantage over small publishers and users of Google's YouTube streaming website.
The statement, advertised on Google's main search page, marks an escalation of tensions between big tech companies and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which has called for sweeping changes to rein in how Google and Facebook use local content and consumer data.
'Highest temperature on Earth' as Death Valley, US hits 54.4C
What could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth - 130F (54.4C) - may have been reached in Death Valley National Park, California.
The recording is being verified by the US National Weather Service.
It comes amid a heatwave on the US's west coast, where temperatures are forecast to rise further this week.
The scorching conditions have led to two days of blackouts in California, after a power plant malfunctioned on Saturday.
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