A group of residents have formed a Neighborhood Support Team and are seeking volunteers to assist them with the sponsorship and support of three Afghan families that will be resettling
It has been a dizzying week of news; some of it hopeful – including promises by the world’s top polluters to slash carbon emissions.
There have also been some tragic developments in India. This week marked a significant worsening of the spread of COVID-19 there.
But some of this week’s stories have been downright farcical. For instance, a proposed multibillion-dollar breakaway European football league has scored an embarrassing own goal.
And then, there was the Dogecoin roller coaster and a son being ordered to pay his mum $100m.
So, if you have been too busy to absorb the details of all that has been going on, here are the numbers you need to know.
Myanmar’s military junta slaughters protesters and press freedom
Myanmar Now, a news outlet based in Yangon. Kim first encountered Swe Win in 2019, when he was enmeshed in a long running defamation case; he was subsequently shot in the leg, apparently at the directive of military leaders, and decided to go into exile. When the coup took place, he wasn’t in Myanmar. He instructed his colleagues on the ground to evacuate the newsroom and stay with family or friends, but some staffers quickly went back to work to cover burgeoning protests. “It would be a shame if we missed the entire public opposition,” Swe Win told Kim. “It would be psychologically devastating to all of us we’d feel very irresponsible so I put half the team back at work. But still, we’re in disarray. They’re still grappling with the trauma of the coup.” He also spoke with donors about opening a newsroom outside Myanmar.
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On March 16 at 4 p.m. Flagler College Forum on Government and Public Policy will host Emily Fishbein, a Southeast Asia Rainforest Journalism Fund grantee of the Pulitzer Center. She will deliver a virtual lecture Tracking Human Rights During a Crisis.” This event is free and open to the public virtually.
This event is free and open to the public virtually by visiting this link.
Fishbein is a grantee reporter based in Myanmar since 2015. Her many stories and projects include “A Distant Peace: Voices From Rakhine state, Myanmar” project covering “Rakhine: Where the Military Is More Feared Than the Coronavirus” and “In Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Trust in Armed Group Grows as Election Hopes Fade.” She’s also co-author on two articles covering jade mining as part of the project, “Buried Hopes: Stories from Kachin’s Jade Mines.” Previously, she worked with refugees in the country. She is financially supported by the Rainforest Journalism Fund of South
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Six off-the-shelf cameras comprised the spacecraft s EDL Cam system (Entry, Descent and Landing). Together they provided a spectacular view of the Rover s arrival on the red planet.