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Aug 19, 2024 | 
hechingerreport.org | William Robinson
Educators around the country are scrambling to save jobs and programs created in the last few years as they face the end of the federal funds aimed at helping schools recover from the pandemic. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund gave districts nearly $200 billion. School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
rebelion.org | William Robinson
Fuentes: La Jornada - Imagen del genocidio perpetrado por Israel en Gaza. El indescriptible salvajismo del genocidio que se desarrolla en Gaza y la absoluta impunidad de los genocidas israelíes y sus patrocinadores occidentales han provocado ondas de indignación en el mundo y desencadenado una intifada global de solidaridad con Palestina.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
No one should have been surprised by Donald Trump’s latest expression of reluctance to defend Taiwan. But many were, including those with skin in the game. Shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and related tech companies plunged after Trump said Taiwan should be paying for the United States to defend it, “doesn’t give us anything”, and had taken “almost 100%” of the US semiconductor industry.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
In Papua New Guinea, special support grants (SSGs) are allocated by the national government to provinces with resource projects to fund capital projects. Introduced in 1990, in the context of the Porgera negotiations, SSGs were intended to compensate provinces (initially Enga) for the fact that, following the Bougainville uprising and closure by landowners of the Panguna mine, it was deemed necessary to give a greater share of royalties to landowners rather than the provincial government.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
swlondoner.co.uk | William Robinson
News Parsons Green Fair in Fulham returned in support of a local charity supporting elderly and isolated individuals within the area on Saturday July 6. The fair saw a range of stores, fairground rides and performances from children in local schools to raise money for Fulham Good Neighbours, a voluntary service that helps individuals with food delivery, gardening as well as running social clubs for isolated individuals.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
This week’s release of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index — compiled biennially by Publish What You Fund from the data contained in its International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) — puts the transparency of donors’ development cooperation programs in a comparative context. The results are not good for Australia. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), which delivers most of Australia’s aid, ranks 48 of 50 (poor) in the 2024 Index.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) convened its third plenary session in Beijing from July 15 to 18, 2024, and adopted the Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPC on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively to Advance Chinese Modernisation. On the new journey of promoting the Chinese path to modernisation, China's reform and opening up have set a new milestone.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
At the NATO Summit in Washington last week, leaders noted the rising threats in space. The technology orbiting the Earth is critical to the digital world and underpins both civilian infrastructure and military activities. Yet these space assets are increasingly vulnerable. Diplomatic tensions between the United States, Russia and China have increased in the space domain, with serious concern surrounding the development of space and counterspace weapons.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
swlondoner.co.uk | William Robinson
Sport The rate of active adults in England has exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time. Sport England have released data from the Active Life Survey, revealing that the percentage of adults averaging 150 minutes of activity a week was 63.4% between November 2022-November 2023, 0.1% than it was in the same time-period of 2018-19.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Nematullah Bizhan |Stephen Howes |Terence Wood |William Robinson
Japan appears to be using the Quad to pursue its ambitions to promote domestic 5G network players. 5G, or “advanced telecommunications” and “critical and emerging technology” in Quad parlance, is one of a small handful of policy initiatives to be addressed at all five Quad leaders’ summits, along with issues such as health and clean energy initiatives. Tokyo has been at the forefront of the group in keeping 5G as a critical technology a consistent focus. Why?
