by Editor | Nov 2, 2016 | World Featured
A recent Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) has placed all species of rosewood under trade restrictions, so criminal gangs can no longer pass off illegally source rosewood as legitimate timber. City officials are hoping the extra protection afforded...
by Editor | Jun 27, 2016 | World Featured
In December 2015, the Free Trade Agreement between South Korea and Vietnam came into effect. This will strengthen economic ties and increase trade through tariff benefits and investments into Vietnam. It will open up 400,000 job opportunities for the Vietnamese young...
by Editor | May 3, 2016 | World Featured
Despite global AIDS rates declining, the lasting impact of this often fatal disease will stretch into the coming decades, especially in Africa. In a 2014 United Nations report, the global advocacy organization suggested the AIDS epidemic that had gripped the world...
by Editor | Feb 24, 2016 | World Featured
When President Harry Truman established this government organization, National Security Agency (NSA), he had in mind an agency that would collect and decode information from around the world. In the infographic below, learn more about the NSA and how it evolved into...
by Editor | Jan 28, 2016 | World Featured
In 2010, Sweden passed the New Education Act, a broad piece of legislation intended to make the country’s schools more uniform. Although homeschooling in Sweden was virtually illegal already, this sweeping reform all but guaranteed all Swedish children would receive a...
by Editor | Jan 28, 2016 | World Featured
Two years ago, Freddy Perez-Rodas shot his wife three times in the chest and burned down their home. The slain woman, Officer Laura Perez of San Diego’s Escondido Police Department, was just 25 years old. Initially, Perez-Rodas told authorities the fire was...
