Author: Biz India

Halfway through his 6-year-term, president’s federalism plans are in doubt By Mikhael Flores – Nikkei Asian Review Staff Writer Manila, June 30, 2019 – President Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency three years ago on a promise to divert wealth away from Manila – the capital he once called a “dead city” – to the Philippines’ impoverished countryside. But halfway through his six-year-term, his plans for a federal system remain in doubt and inequality between the capital and regions continues to widen. Government data show that per capita income for people in Manila rose 40 percent between 2012 and 2018,...

By Ritu Jha – Indica News June 30, 2019 – Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris might have won the Democratic debate by confronting former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden over civil rights issues including his position on busing and his remarks on segregationist senators, but Harris has provoked the U.S. Sikh community into wondering whether she really does believe in what she was saying based on her record when she was California attorney general. Sikh activists have launched a petition demanding Harris apologize for supporting employment discrimination against a Sikh job applicant in 2011 during her tenure as California’s...