– By Marcelo Vieta, Assistant Professor, Adult Education and Community Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. As the epidemiological impacts of COVID-19 grow exponentially, so do business closures, unemployment rates, poverty, housing and food insecurities.

Stirling is the ideal place to get caught up in the history of Scotland . Not only do tales of historical figures abound here, but the magnificent castle of Stirling rises up against the skyline ready to captivate the imagination. The city of Stirling has a rich history - most of which started....

Nine of the latest 21 COVID-19 cases in NSW are from the same nursing home where a 93-year-old man died on Saturday, NSW Health has confirmed. Three more staff and six more residents of Anglicare's Newmarch House have tested positive, taking to 39 the total cases at the aged care home in western Sydney.

BUSINESS process outsourcing (BPO) firm Alorica Jamaica has confirmed that full salaries will be paid to all employees who have tested positive for COVID-19, for the duration of their sick leave. The confirmation from the Portmore-based firm followed questions raised in the House of Representatives....

Nine Entertainment Co has dismissed speculation it is looking to buy Village Roadshow or a portion of its assets. The Australian reported on Friday that Nine, owner of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age was weighing up either acquiring all of Village Roadshow or picking up its film distribution....

Thursday, 16 April 2020 – 12:40 pm. Police are supporting the North West community by continuing to enforce compliance, with more than 2400 checks carried out so far on businesses and individuals required to quarantine. “This two week period of quarantine is impacting several thousand members of the....

President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee have one of their old allies back in the big money fundraising game after he stepped back from helping the commander in chief. Robert Mercer, one of Trump's original financiers during his first run for president, gave his first six-figure....

The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant is seen in this general view taken in Gebeng, Pahang July 23, 2019. — Reuters pic. KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 — Malaysia will decide within five days whether to allow rare earths miner Lynas Corp Ltd to operate its processing plant during the country’s partial lockdown....

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure. Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement. 15 April 2020. Strategic Minerals plc.

Fifty years ago, the Gorton government began the withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam. It was a process as opaque as that which took Australia into the war in the first place. On April 22, 1970, Prime Minister John Gorton announced that one infantry battalion, 8RAR, which was due to return home in November, would not be replaced.

Health workers in northwest Tasmania, where a coronavirus outbreak has shut two hospitals, attended an "illegal" dinner party together, Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy has revealed. The hospitals in Burnie closed on Monday, with a cluster of more than 60 COVID-19 cases, including about 45 staff, associated with the facilities.

BEIJING, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese firms have stepped up recruitment on social networking platform LinkedIn as businesses gradually return to normal amid the containment of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. From March 23 to 26, new job postings on LinkedIn China jumped by....

Businessman Nigel Grier. Australian entrepreneur Nigel Grier presents as a successful, sustainability innovator helping save the world while making people rich. He has recruited investors to help build a city from scratch for refugees in Myanmar. He has even offered to rehouse two bears kept in cramped conditions in the south-east Asian country.

The Australian government is working with Chinese authorities to get clearance for a plane to airlift Australians out of the coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan after the evacuation was delayed overnight. The plane, which was originally scheduled to leave Wuhan on Friday night, did not get clearance to land from China.

They arrived on an Asiana Airlines flight, Vo Thi Ngoc Thuy, deputy director of the city Department of Tourism, said. They landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport and were allowed to leave by the police instead of being quarantined for two weeks since they were in the epidemic-stricken area.