Word: localized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appear to have been robbed and murdered by someone posing as a client. Police found their badly bruised bodies on the floors of their apartments. Autopsies confirmed that they were each suffocated to death, leading police to suspect a serial killer was responsible. On Feb. 4, police arrested a local 24-year-old man in connection with the most recent killing, a 38-year-old from Thailand. The suspect remains in jail. "Enquiries are ongoing to ascertain whether the person arrested is connected to other similar offenses," a Hong Kong police spokesman says...
...city of 6.9 million, saw 36 murders last year, twice as many as in 2007. Six of the 36 were sex workers. In a particularly gruesome incident in May, 2008, a 16-year-old girl involved in sex trade was decapitated, flayed, chopped into pieces, and dumped at a local market where meat was sold. "We are very frightened of this dangerous situation," says Jade, a 40-year-old Hong Kong prostitute who declined to give her last name. "We don't know why these people want to kill...
...women, promoting the word recycler instead of more traditional and derogatory terms like garbage picker and scavenger. "The movement increases self-esteem. Society has always scorned recyclers, seeing them as the last rung on the ladder," says Galo Flores, who provides support to the movement through a local organization, Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City...
...crux of the program is economics, both for the members and the districts where they work. Flores says that by working with the recyclers instead of seeing them as a nuisance, local governments could save a bundle by cutting the fuel costs of garbage trucks and the fees paid to dispose of solid waste. Associations of recyclers would be registered as microenterprises, and members would be eligible for social benefits such as health care while contributing small amounts to the country's tax base - which would make them, according to Flores, "real citizens for the first time." (See pictures...
...movement kicked off the new year with 30 recyclers' associations, two-thirds of them in Lima. It gets its inspiration from a similar group in Bogotá and a few other organizations in South America. The Peruvian movement was formally launched a few months after local recyclers took part in the first world conclave of recyclers, held last March in Colombia. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the commitment to start an international group, Recyclers Without Borders...