Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop. Related. 'It's a disaster'. children bear brunt of southern Africa's devastating drought . Lucy Lamble. Last year’s drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard ... ....
Chittagong // Cyclone Roanu killed 23 people in Bangladesh on Saturday and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes amid strong winds and heavy downpours. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after noon, packing winds of up to 88 kilometres per hour ... "Thousands of villagers were forced to flee their homes after the storm surge flooded their villages," he said....
Britain will open the doors to high levels of criminals from countries like Turkey if it remains in the European UnionLeave campaigners have claimed - a move labelled "absurd and untrue" by critics ... Read more....
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Li Jiayun earned her second ChinaLPGA Tour victory on Saturday when the Guangdong native birdied the final hole for a 67 to win the Le Coq SportifBeijing Ladies Classic by one stroke ...Chinese Taipei's Lee Chia-pei, the tournament leader through the first two rounds, closed with a one-over 73 to sit sixth at four strokes back ... "Entering this week my shots weren't soaring. I couldn't enjoy my game ... Editor. An. ....
(Source. CISC - Criminal Intelligence Service Canada). This week is CanadaRoad SafetyWeek, a national campaign held every year to make Canada's roads the safest in the world. The week of May 17th to May 23rd has been strategically chosen as the first 'summer' long weekend ... Photos courtesy of Brian Simpson..Photo 1. Cst ... Photo 2 ... Original documenthttp.//www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2016/20/pei-rcmp-promote-canada-road-safety-week....
ForgetBeijing and Shanghai. China's economic future is emerging in Shenzhen. Formerly a collection of fishing enclaves next door to Hong Kong that became the epicenter of China's manufacturing-driven miracle, Shenzhen is reinventing itself again by staking its future growth on finance, technology and culture ... It just made natural sense to start here," said CarlPei, the 26-year-old co-founder of Android smartphone maker OnePlus ... ....
Victoria, PE - May 20, 2016 - Members of the media are invited to tour the Halibut PEI operation in Victoria, PE ... MacDonald, PEIMinister of Economic Development and Tourism, will join representatives from Halibut PEI for an announcement regarding a new project for the company....
(Source. Government of Canada). Charlottetown, PE - May 20, 2016 - Members of the media are invited to attend an infrastructure announcement in Charlottetown ...Date. Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Time. 12.00 p.m ... Charlottetown, PEI ... ACOAPEI and Tourism....