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Sri Lankan Fishermen’s Struggle Amid Economic Crisis

Fishermen of fishing town Negombo, Sri Lanka feeling a blow by the recent economic crisis in the island nation. Fishermen who always had been in the lower socio-economic strata in the country are now more and more struggling to keep their necks above water. Aloysius, a fisherman in the fishing village Negombo told that they Read More…

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Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced To 6 More Years In Prison

On counts of corruption, Suu Kyi will spend the next 17 years in jail Former leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, has added six more years to her prison sentencing, which now stands at 17 years. A special court run by Myanmar’s military Junta is trying Suu Kyi on counts of corruption after the Read More…

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Oxford-Trained Academic Writes About Black Diaspora In Asia

Are Black People in Asia Black Ghosts? Oxford-Trained Academic Finds Out Ken Kamoche, an Oxford-trained academic, has written a novel titled Black Ghosts. It basically “tells the relatively ignored story of Africans in China from the late 1980s at about the time of the Tiananmen massacre.” He says to me: “set against a backdrop of Read More…