Newspaper Reports Research Articles

Political signalling and emissions trading schemes in China: Insights from Guangdong Province

China's approach to environmental regulation relies heavily on campaign-style enforcement and blunt-force regulation. While considered effective in the short run, this approach is often inefficient and generates unintended regulatory outcomes in the longer run. At the same time, China continues to experiment with the use of market-based approaches that are theoretically more efficient and have the potential to facilitate sustained reductions in carbon emissions. Arguably the most high-profile example is the Guangdong Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which was launched in 2013 as a national pilot scheme. We construct a synthetic control of Guangdong and analyse 51,076 party-led newspaper reports to show that while the ETS reduced emissions in the short run, these reductions were systematically associated with political signalling. Notably, emissions reduced substantially upon the announcement of the ETS in 2011 – a full two years before the scheme was scheduled to begin – before rebounding to near pre-ETS announcement levels by 2017. The presence of an anticipation effect and the systematic association between political signalling and emissions reductions mirrors findings on China's more direct approaches to environmental regulation. Our findings suggest that market-based mechanisms in China may not be qualitatively different from more direct forms of environmental regulation.

The Representation of the Driving Ban in Saudi Media

The present study aims to analyse the impact of printed media on lifting the driving ban for women in Saudi Arabia. In this relation, the study examines the way in which media represents the driving ban and the challenges and barriers faced by women in Saudi Arabia. For the purpose of addressing the objectives of the research, a secondary qualitative method has been used. Discourse analysis has been conducted under which the newspaper reports have been analysed to examine the perception of the media about the driving ban for women. The results of the study show that women in Saudi Arabia are not treated equally to men and thus there are deprived of basic rights like driving. It can further be analysed from the research findings that for long time media has played an essential role in presenting and covering the major events in Saudi Arabia. The media of Saudi Arabia has highly lifted the event of a driving ban for women in Saudi Arabia and has helped women in raising their issues related to equality.

Ethical issues in health care sector: Myth or Reality?

Ethics are the moral duties and responsibilities which govern a lifestyle. In medical profession being ethical is the primary demand, but at times ethical judgement and behaviour may direct towards an unprecedented decision. In these circumstances, medical professionals and health care providers take utmost care to take a diligent decision. But a conflict always exists between the professional and personal ethical values of all health care professionals and workers. At times the health care workers and professionals undergo severe mental distress and agony to respond to professional ethics. The study is conducted with the objective of reviewing ethical issues and conflict existing in the health care sector in the current scenario when the whole world is fighting to defeat the deadly virus of COVID. This paper is based on extensive literature review which includes research articles and papers apart from newspaper articles and reports. The review gave a clear picture on the ethical stature in health care sector. Further, the paper also highlights the ethical issues and conflicts of health care workers and professionals.

Mullah Abdullah, A Mullah? A Reassessment of the Assertions and the Evidence

On January 1, 1915, Gool Badsha Muhammad and Mullah Abdullah shot at a picnic train as it left the city of Broken Hill, Australia, headed towards the village of Silverton, killing four and wounding seven. Had it not been for this horrific act and tragic loss of life, it is likely that little would be remembered of the perpetrators. The focus of this paper is to provide a reassessment of the often-reiterated claim that Mullah Abdullah was the mullah, imam, or “Islamic priest” of the Cameleer community in Broken Hill. After examining scholarly literature evidence will be drawn, primarily from newspaper reports of the period to assess what, if any, support there is for this claim. The paper will utilize comments made within the newspaper reports regarding Mullah Abdullah in order to examine the extent to which he could have been considered a religious leader amongst his community.

Media Framing of the First Administration of Devolution in Kenya

ABSTRACT The current research, which content analysed 565 news stories in the Daily Nation and The Standard, examined media framing of devolution in Kenya between 2013 and 2017. It examined the most dominant frame in the four-year coverage of devolution, whether the coverage used episodic or thematic framing, and whether the tone of newspaper reports was positive or negative. Findings show that the coverage of devolution was conflict-driven, episodic, and negative. The dominance of the conflict frames shows that the polarised nature of Kenyan politics continues to influence media coverage of devolution, leaving Kenyans without a deeper understanding of how the implementation of devolution impacts development or a grasp on the challenges the new system of governance continues to grapple with.

NOTES FROM ROME 2021–22

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (August 2021 – June 2022) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions, and newspaper reports.

De reiziger, een sympathieke kandidaat voor de verkiezingen in 1912

The traveller, a congenial candidate for the 1912 elections. Political propaganda in Arthur Buysse’s travelogue on Constantinople In the winter of 1910-1911, liberal politician Arthur Buysse held at least 10 lantern lectures about his journey to Constantinople in liberal associations and social circles in Ghent, Belgium. The lectures were closely intertwined with other media such as newspaper reports and travel photography. An analysis of this intermediary network demonstrates that Buysse’s lantern readings were more than a picturesque travel report. Buysse subtly addressed less obvious issues, such as the need for Dutch-language education and secularization in his lectures. By adding deftly political messages, Buysse prepared the audience for the liberal party’s reorientation in the run-up to the 1912 election. This contribution examines to what extent the lantern readings profiled Buysse as a reliable helmsman for political reorientation in the liberal party.

Supporting Human Dignity in a Collapsing Field: Gestalt Approach in the Social and Political Contexts

Supporting Human Dignity in a Collapsing Field: Gestalt Approach in the Social and Political Contexts

The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars: Greek-Americans and Philhellenes, 1912–1913 by Peter S. Giakoumis

Reviewed by: The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars: Greek-Americans and Philhellenes, 1912–1913 by Peter S. Giakoumis Fevronia K. Soumakis (bio) Peter S. Giakoumis, The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars: Greek-Americans and Philhellenes, 1912–1913. Rochester, NY: Starry Night Publishing, 2020. Pp. iii + 686. 18 illustrations. Paper $24.00. Peter S. Giakoumis’s The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars: Greek-Americans andPhilhellenes, 1912–1913 is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on the history of Greek America. Giakoumis sheds light on the little-known contributions of Greek American soldiers who returned to Greece to [End Page 469] fight in the Balkan Wars between 1912 and 1913. At the conclusion of those wars, the Greek kingdom nearly doubled in size and population through the incorporation of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Epirus, Crete, and the eastern Aegean islands. In his 1964 history The Greeks in the United States, Theodore Saloutos describes the events leading up to the mobilization of approximately 45,000 men who returned to Greece to fight (Saloutos 1964, 96–117). Giakoumis expands upon Saloutos’s work by situating Greek American volunteers and philhellene supporters within the broader political and military context of the Balkan Wars. Giakoumis did not set out to write a monograph. Rather, his purpose was to uncover the voices and experiences of Greek American soldiers during the war. In doing so, he relies on extensive documentation: his book is a compilation of reprinted newspaper articles, photographs, reports, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and quotations from secondary sources. The author brings to life the “forgotten heroes” of Greek immigrant life as well as the unfolding social and political events in Greece and the United States. The history of the soldiers’ involvement in the Balkan Wars is told overwhelmingly through primary source documents and historical timelines. The book is divided into eight chapters with eight appendices that comprise nearly one-quarter of the book. The first chapter presents newspaper excerpts that detail world events leading up to the Balkan Wars. In the second chapter, the author explores Greek communal life in the United States between 1900 and 1913. Spyros Matsoukas, “the inspired apostle and patriotic missionary” figures prominently in the Greek-language newspapers: Matsoukas arrived in the United States from Greece in 1909 and embarked on an ambitious fund-raising tour that raised thousands of dollars toward the “regeneration and rehabilitation” of Greece, including the purchase of a battleship (35). In the same year, the first Greek American military clubs were established in major cities in anticipation of an impending war with Ottoman Turkey. These military units were made up of Greek military veterans as well as those without prior military training. They received ample coverage in the American press, as for instance on 9 October 1910, when the St. Louis Dispatch ran the headline “Greeks Arming and Drilling in St. Louis, Strange New Colony Ready to Attack Turkey—Subscribe for a Battleship—Greeks all over Southwest Co-Operate” (40). In addition to showcasing the activities of military units as reported by Greek-language and other American newspapers, Giakoumis rightly focuses on the important work of the Panhellenic Union in mobilizing Greek American volunteers during the Balkan Wars. The Union was established in New York in 1907 as a mutual benefit society and a centralized vehicle for uniting [End Page 470] and harnessing the financial capacities of Greek immigrants. The remainder of chapter 2 captures Greek immigrant life in many parts of the United States through the lens of the American press, focusing in particular on Greek Americans’ initial settlement, establishment of businesses and churches, and other important activities. Giakoumis asserts that, as war loomed on the horizon, there were three notable components that defined the Greek American response: “1. They raised over $400,000 USD. 2. Greek-American soldiers set out to fight in the war, even though a fair number of them did not have prior military service. 3. Most of them returned to the U.S. after the war” (103). On 17 September 1912 the Greek government issued mobilization instructions ordering Greek veterans, reservists, and men of military age to return to Greece to fight. Many Greeks in the United States...

1.12 The Pressing Issue of Adolescent Suicide Deaths in Pakistan: A Qualitative Analysis of Newspaper Reports

1.12 The Pressing Issue of Adolescent Suicide Deaths in Pakistan: A Qualitative Analysis of Newspaper Reports

Quality of Newspaper Reporting of Suicidal Behaviour in Kuwait

Quality of Newspaper Reporting of Suicidal Behaviour in Kuwait

Cybercrime Insurance Is A Protection Tool Of The Society: An Analytical Study

Despite the increasing awareness of cybercrime, there are many people who are still not sure what it is. Cybercrime is a criminal activity that is committed using computers or the internet. It can include anything from hacking and identity theft to fraud and child pornography. With the rise of technology, cybercrime has become one of the most common forms of crime. According to a report by Norton, a cyber-security company, there were 4.1 billion records breached in the first six months of 2019 alone. And the rate of cybercrime is only increasing. The same report stated that the average cost of a data breach globally was $3.86 million in 2018, which is up 6% from the previous year. During the duration of the Pandemic of Covid-19 most, most of the cyber-crimes increased by around five hundred times is stated by Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat in a discussion with the Hindu Newspaper reporter in Nov. 2021. With the growing rate of cybercrime, many businesses are starting to purchase cybercrime insurance. Cybercrime insurance is a protection tool that businesses can use to financially protect themselves in the event of a data breach or other type of cyber-attack. In this research paper, we will explore the need for cybercrime insurance and how it can help businesses recover from a cyber-attack. We will also look at some of the challenges that businesses face when it comes to purchasing such insurance.

Obfuscating Agency in Pakistani Newspaper Reporting: A Discourse- based Perspective

This paper investigates the use of strategies to obfuscate agency such as metonymic expressions, passive structures and nominalization as a resource for constructing knowledge in media discourses. The methodological framework of the study is inspired by Halliday’s (2004) concept of grammatical metaphor. Linguistic choices play a critical role in facilitating ideological information flow, for example, nominalization structure the information in ways which allow writers’ perspective on events to be conveyed to the reader (Halliday and Martin, 1993). The data for this study come from three Pakistani daily English newspapers: Dawn, the News and the Nation, selected on the basis of their wide circulation. A sample analysis has confirmed the working hypothesis that nominalizations are useful in abstracting and classifying actions and events in order to build and organize media discourses (for a fuller account see Fairclough 2010). The study explores the lexico-grammatical patterns which have been deployed to build ideological positions, maintain power relations and relate with the literature in the field that journalists use in order to inculcate particular socio-political morals in the consumers.

Marginality and Modernity on the South Shore: Blackpool’s Fortune Tellers, Authenticity and Belonging

This article explores early twentieth-century visual and textual representations of fortune telling in Blackpool, England. It does so to investigate the Romani presence at, and centrality to, this seaside resort in order to query the shared and contested space(s) emergent during the development of what was at the time an inherently modern and innovative touristic place. Starting the discussion with a well-known 1930s Mass Observation image of a palmist’s booth, the article then explores earlier photographs and postcards from the turn of the century depicting fortune-telling tents on Blackpool’s South Shore sandhills. Here three interlinked strands of enquiry are addressed. Firstly, the shared histories and development of Romani fortune tellers and their families and the rise of the touristic offer of Blackpool; secondly, the dichotomy of the marketing and representation of fortune telling as an integral part of this touristic offer and the precarity and criminalization of the fortune tellers’ lives and activities; and thirdly, the often overlooked ways in which fortune tellers utilized visual representations themselves as a way of creating and self-marketing a space of authenticity and place-based belonging. To do this the article draws upon contemporaneous ethnographic reports, professional and family photographs, newspaper reports and magazine articles.

COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND THE RULES OF EVIDENCE

A commission of inquiry appointed by the president in terms of section 84(2)(f) of the Constitution is entitled, the courts have pointed out on various occasions, to adopt its own procedures, including those related to the receipt of evidence, unless the Commissions Act 8 of 1947 or the president has provided otherwise that is.A commission’s discretion to determine its own procedure is not, however, an unfettered one. This is because, as an organ of state engaged in administrative action, a commission is bound by the provisions of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000 and in particular the duty to act fairly.The duty to act fairly does not mean, however, that a commission is bound by the rules of evidence applicable to a court of law. This is because the rules of evidence applicable to a court of law are not determinative of the duty to act fairly. The duty to act fairly is an inherently flexible concept and always depends on the circumstances.A commission is furthermore not a court of law. There are no issues for it to try; there is neither plaintiff nor defendant. Counsel leading evidence for the commission does not perform the functions of a prosecutor and there is no accused. There are no individual parties entitled to a hearing and a verdict on the evidence.Given that it may determine its own procedures, a commission is, the South African courts have pointed out further, responsible for collecting its own evidence. In this respect it may consider information of any nature, including hearsay evidence, newspaper reports, and submissions or representations that are nothing more than opinions.Unfortunately, these principles appear to have been overlooked by the Bloemfontein High Court in Munusamy v Hefer NO (2004 5 BCLR 508 (O)). In this case the court relied, unnecessarily, on the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 to determine whether a summons should be set aside on the grounds that the applicant’s evidence was inadmissible and irrelevant.

Muslim Solidarity in the UN General Assembly

Abstract In international politics, governments may tend to favor countries with which they share some degree of cultural affinity. Moreover, international organizations can strengthen solidarity among their members. Not surprisingly, Muslim countries, which came together under the umbrella of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), frequently state that they pursue Muslim solidarity in international politics. By looking at voting preferences of OIC member Muslim countries in the UN General Assembly about the selection of nonpermanent UN Security Council members, this article aims to understand Muslim solidarity in international politics. For this, the article uses newspaper reports, political statements, secret intelligence reports, and interviews regarding the votes of Muslim countries in contested elections in which a Muslim country competed with its non-Muslim rival for the same Security Council seat.

Understanding Management Marketing in Digitalization and Automation Times

This study discusses some of the latest trends in business marketing governance in the era of Automation by emphasizing what is happening in business today compared to the past. This study is based on published data in the literature and internet-based data from various research articles, newspaper reports, and various website sites that actively discuss marketing trend issues in digital technology days. We understand that the business now and in the past still have the same goal, but what makes the difference is the marketing work system that used to be conventional but has now switched to digital, namely by optimizing internet searches that are based on marketing objectives, all marketing content and all information related to trading electronics became the main discussion to get an understanding of marketing management governance in the era of all-technology. We then studied the electronic data search method carefully and concluded that the point was that we got the findings as an answer to this royal question reported qualitatively. Based on the data exposure and discussion, we can inform the audience that today's business managers must understand how to influence consumers to win marketing by minimizing marketing costs so that companies get profits and their business continuity. Thus, it is hoped that this study will obtain results helpful in developing business marketing science in the digital era compared to traditional marketing techniques.

THE POET AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: TONY HARRISON’S WAR POETRY

ABSTRACT The poet Tony Harrison has created work for the stage and television, and even assumed the role of poet/journalist, writing newspaper reports in verse from war-torn Bosnia. His work is underpinned by a belief in the political nature of the act of writing. He has generally attracted a non-working-class readership; nevertheless, he has never abandoned his quest for a ‘democratic’ poetry. Much of his work has taken the form of a poetry of immediate response to current events. He has also been insistent, at times, on where his poetry should be published. When he wrote ‘Initial Illumination’ for The Guardian, for example, he argued it should not appear in the ‘literary’ section, but on the news pages. Harrison sees himself as a ‘war poet. He uses his position as a public intellectual to engage in a struggle against dominant discourses and ways of seeing and to bring audiences to confront the horror of war. The article focuses in particular on his Gulf War poem, ‘A Cold Coming’, in which he uses strategies such as ekphrasis, to position the reader as a kind of ‘secondary witness’ of a war that had been turned by the media into a distant, anaesthetised spectacle.

Context of boat drowning in Ghana: a mixed qualitative research study

BackgroundDrowning is a significant public health challenge globally. In Africa and Ghana, drowning has remained a silent epidemic among poor communities. Limited evidence has challenged advances in drowning knowledge and...

"This Abominable Evil Is the Source of Fetid Corruption": The IRA's 1920 War on Poitín

"This Abominable Evil Is the Source of Fetid Corruption":The IRA's 1920 War on Poitín Caoimhín de Barra (bio) As the Irish Republican Army waged war on crown forces during the Irish War of Independence, British control of large parts of Ireland collapsed. The escalating conflict was a boon for those who could profit from the slackening of law and order, especially those in the business of illegal distillation. This raised a dilemma for republican paramilitaries. Fighting a guerilla campaign against an enemy with significant advantages in terms of financing and equipment, the IRA could scarcely afford to divert resources toward combating the poitín trade in the Irish countryside. Yet it did. In fact, the second half of 1920 witnessed a serious campaign in which local IRA commanders, acting on their own initiative, sought to destroy the illicit-whiskey trade. Over the following six months IRA poitín raids took place across the north, west, and south, with stills seized in Kerry, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Cavan, Monaghan, Antrim, and Armagh. Exactly how many such operations took place is difficult to ascertain. After all, members of an illegal organization searching for fellow lawbreakers engaged in criminality was not the kind of activity that generated exhaustively detailed written records. But based on newspaper reports and witness statements, a conservative estimate is that the Irish Volunteers conducted about one hundred such raids in the second half of 1920. Some of these operations could be quite extensive. One raid at Ballyscally in Tyrone involved thirty men, while a report in the Anglo-Celt claimed (possibly with some exaggeration) that the seizure of a still at a farmer's house at Ture in Monaghan included between two and three hundred participants.1 An article in [End Page 283] the Sligo Champion described a series of poitín raids in the townland of Masshill, reporting that: It is rumoured that about forty men were engaged, and that the operations were carried out in real military style. Sentries and outposts were thrown out. A line of communication was kept up between the raiding party and the outposts by means of dispatch riders and signaling with cycle lamps. The orders were given to the men through a megaphone, and the houses to be raided were approached and surrounded without the least noise.2 This scene naturally raises some questions. Why was the IRA engaged in this kind of activity at all? We also might wonder what was the reaction of the ordinary men and women of Ireland, the people on whose behalf the Irish Volunteers claimed to be fighting, to the effort to stamp out poitín distillation. Why did the crusade against "mountain dew" stop as abruptly as it started, and what insight does it offer into the vision of a new Ireland that these revolutionaries had? The IRA was motivated by a number of factors. Firstly, as an entity dedicated to overthrowing the system, the IRA was committed to a new society, and for many of them alcohol's place needed to be tempered. Secondly, the IRA understood that suppressing poitín had public-relations potential. After all, it wanted the Irish public to recognize the IRA as the legal authority on the island, and what better way to demonstrate its fitness to rule than holding illicit-whiskey distillers to account? Thirdly, as the Catholic church was also morally opposed to poitín, the IRA hoped that tackling the manufacture and distribution of moonshine would reinforce the sense that it was doing God's work. Hence the Irish Volunteers often displayed the captured tools of the trade, such as stills and worms, on church grounds on Sundays. The topic of poitín and the IRA during the War of Independence has received very little attention. In Michael Hopkinson's The Irish War of Independence and Charles Townshend's The Republic: The Fight for Irish Freedom, for example, poitín is barely mentioned at all, with both books dedicating only a sentence to it.3 John Borganovo is [End Page 284] similarly brief when broaching the topic in his recent essay "Peasant Resistance Traditions and the Irish...