Millions of workers in India held a one-day nationwide strike Wednesday to protest government plans for sweeping labor reforms that protesters say will put jobs at risk and hurt ordinary people. The shutdown highlights the hurdles the government is encountering in implementing economic reforms.
http://www.voanews.com/content/millions-of-workers-in-india-protest-labor-reforms/2942610.html
Yin-Wong Cheung was taking a holiday in California from another uncomfortably warm August in Hong Kong, when the Chinese government tweaked the state currency, the renminbi. That pushed its value modestly lower, and unexpectedly toppled equity markets from Shanghai to London and New York.
“China—or the fraction (of its leadership) that pushed for such a move, underestimated the rippling effect,” says Cheung, a foreign exchange specialist, and chairman of international economics at the City University of Hong Kong.
Before the American Psychological Association (APA) meets in Toronto next Thursday for what all expect will be a fraught convention that reckons with an independent review that last month found the APA complicit in torture, former military voices within the profession are urging the organization not to participate in what they describe as a witch hunt.
http://www.infowars.com/anti-torture-reforms-opposed-within-psychology-group-after-damning-report/
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