Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling. The senseless killing of professional basketball star Dwyane Wade’s kin, Nykea Aldridge, is another reminder of America’s pathological gun-violence culture. Indeed, not only is America’s gun-homicide rate 700 percent more than that of Japan, but in Japan an individual is more likely to die from being struck by lightning than a fatal gunshot ... destructive weapons should never be used....
In 1974, scientists working in Ethiopia uncovered an extraordinary female skeleton, whom they called Lucy. She was 3.2 million years old, and belonged to a new species of hominid now known as Australopithecus afarensis... Lucy has since become a household name, and it’s easy to forget that she was more than just an avatar of human evolution. She was also a person ... She ate, drank, and socialized. She climbed trees ... Maybe she was pushed....
Despite our widespread fascination with great white sharks, we know surprisingly little about their reproduction and their young. But that might be about to change. A team of researchers from OCEARCH believe they have discovered the first known breeding site for great white sharks off Montauk in Long Island, New York, CBSNews reports ... “Probably the most important significant discovery we’ve ever made on the ocean.”....
There are even fintech startups specifically targeting cooperatives and farmers around the country ...PresidentJoko “ Jokowi” Widodo, who aims to see 1,000 technopreneurs by 2020 to turn Indonesia into a regional digital powerhouse, will speak at the event on Tuesday, followed by Finance MinisterSriMulyaniIndrawati, Coordinating Economic MinisterDarmin Nasution and Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita, among others ... ....
The World Bank is providing support to a project to improve the livability and infrastructure in three major cities of SriLanka - Kandy, Galle and Jaffna. According to the global lender, Sri Lanka is in the midst of a structural transformation and urbanization process with the potential of yielding profound implications on economic development and ......
Today, we see more enthusiasm for tax reform in Indonesia...Last year, the Finance Ministry issued a new tax holiday regulation, expanding the scope and duration of tax holidays for eligible companies ... It is a new development ... To be honest, I doubt it ... Similarly, in her article in The Huffington Post, on April 14, SriMulyani, as World Bank managing director at the time, underscored the need to create a more fair taxation system ... ....
SriLanka police on Monday arrested a 17-year old school boy on suspicion of hacking into the president's official website, demanding that his university entrance examination dates not be changed, off... ....
achieving this year’s high collection target while at the same time making the public understand the tax amnesty program clearly, Finance MinisterSriMulyaniIndrawati has acknowledged. Tax officials are accustomed to collecting taxes while now they’re supposed to explain amnesty procedures to taxpayers, something SriMulyani said required different “memory muscles” ... But this hasn’t happened ... ....
That’s because Indonesia’s graft-busting Finance MinisterSriMulyaniIndrawati, who was more or less driven into exile in Washington six years ago after trying to clean up corruption, is back in town. On her reform agenda ... "SriMulyani is ... “The savior for Jokowi is SriMulyani, who has a great track record and respect from investors.”....
Father of HuM leader BurhanWani tells SriSriIndia, Hurriyat and Pakistan should hold dialogue. Lifting the veil of secrecy over his meeting with Art of Living Foundation founder SriSri Ravishankar, Muzaffar Ahmad Wani, father of slain Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) poster boy Burhan Wani, said that he batted for the Kashmir cause and told the spiritual guru that a dialogue between India, Hurriyat and Pakistan is the way out....
Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan, center, is greeted with an arch of bats as he enters the field for the last match of his ODI cricket career during the third one day international cricket match against Australia in Dambulla, SriLanka, Sunday, August 28, 2016 ... Australia edged out Sri Lanka by two wickets to spoil Tillakaratne Dilshan’s one-day farewell and go 2-1 up in the five-match series on Sunday....
Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development of the Democratic SocialistRepublic of SriLanka) Hon ... The reasons which led to such a decision was the danger of seas cumbers getting extinct from Sri Lankan seas due to the over exploitation by Sri Lankan fishers ... Hence the Ministry has decided to temporarily suspend sea cumber fishing for four years in Sri Lanka....
SriLanka’s new draft Constitution could be presented in Parliament before the next budget which would be announced by mid-November this year, Foreign MinisterMangala Samaraweera has said while hoping that it will celebrate the country’s diversity ...Sri Lanka, new Constitution, Mr....