If I end up in court convicted of a serious offence I can expect tough treatment. If I was there because of wide-scale fraud, or evading the law for years to hide criminal activities, I’d be facing hard time. Being found guilty in court means everything else in life...
The smart folks at Abobe have decided that only urban creatives in rich countries deserve attention. Adobe is an international software company that sells the key programs used to create most of what we see in the information age. Their software makes it easy to work...
Afghanistan produces 90% of all opiate drugs in the world, but until recently was not a major consumer. Now, out of a population of 35 million, more than a million are addicted to drugs – proportionately the highest figure in the world. Right in the heart of...
As tensions simmer and fears of miscalculation leading to escalation grow, there aren’t a lot of sophisticated ways to communicate with North Korea, Situation Report was told. Years ago, a hotline was established by the U.N., but the North Koreans routinely cut...
Home for three weeks now and the bones are buried again, back in their usual spot under the floorboards. Travel in areas of absolute poverty and you soon confront questions that have no answers. Questions that get packed away upon landing, a standard part of the...
It is achingly obvious that media-types and self-anointed thought leaders in Toronto hate their mayor Rob Ford. They can’t believe their fellow city-residents elected him in 2010. And so they are determined to hound the guy to death with thousands of ceaseless...
