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Photo credit: Getty Images For decades, hundreds of millions of rural Chinese have flocked from their home provinces in the interior to make a better living in the factories and construction sites of the country’s more affluent eastern and southern cities. Qatar Tribune reports that, with China’s domestic demand weakening and well-paying urban jobs becoming…

Photo credit: Spain Residency On Monday, migrants in Spain began submitting applications to legalize their status as the country implemented a new amnesty program. Times Now reports that the initiative aims to provide a pathway to legal residency. It could impact hundreds of thousands of unauthorized refugees. The program offers a one-year renewable residence permit to immigrants who…

Photo credit: Bay observer Premier Doug Ford has apparently heard the message and announced a U-turn on plans to keep a $28.9 million Challenger Jet. The Bay Observer reports that the move to buy the plane attracted strong criticism from the  Oppositon and media, as well as members of the public. Ford said in a statement Sunday that he…

Photo credit: Business and Human Rights Centre Malaysia risks repeating the same failures in its migrant worker recruitment system unless it urgently restores transparency and accountability, Tenaganita, the Malaysian human rights nonprofit organization has warned. The Sun reports that the group’s executive director, Glorene a Das, said public confidence in labour migration policies has been severely…

Photo credit: Indian Express A local court in Mohali, India, has convicted an immigration agent in a visa fraud case and sentenced her to three years of rigorous imprisonment, imposing a fine of Rs 1.02 lakh as compensation to the complainant. The Indian Express reports that Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anish Goyal held Chhavi Sharma…

Nine countries currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The Mainichi of June 19, 2025, reported that the first to have nuclear arms were the five nuclear-weapon states – the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom. All of them are signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which commits…

Iran has reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, citing an ongoing US naval blockade. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has said Iran is ready to inflict “new bitter defeats” on the US and Israel. On the state TV on Saturday (April 18), a newsreader quoted a statement attributed to Khamenei saying, “The army…