Category: report

Report Reveals Human Rights Cost of China’s Global Investment

A rights group has recorded more than 600 human rights abuses allegedly committed by overseas Chinese businesses between 2013 and 2020. A report (pdf) by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) profiles 679 allegations of overseas Chinese businesses by sector, region, and issue. The Aug. 11 report titled “‘Going Out’ Responsibly: The Human Rights…


Philippines to Probe Report of Chinese Sewage-Dumping at Sea

MANILA—The Philippines’ defence minister on Tuesday ordered the military to investigate a report by a U.S.-based tech firm that hundreds of Chinese vessels were dumping sewage into contested areas of the South China Sea. China maintains a constant presence of coastguard and fishing boats in the South China Sea to assert its claim of sovereignty,…


Report Showed Major Damage Before Florida Condo Collapse

SURFSIDE, Fla.—The oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete structural slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report on the building. The report was among a series of documents released by the city of Surfside as rescuers continued to…


 Orange County Grand Jury Criticizes Pandemic Response

SANTA ANA—Orange County continued its promising COVID-19 trends May 12 as the Orange County Grand Jury issued a report critical of the county’s response to the pandemic. The grand jury concluded that the county’s plans to handle a pandemic “had known gaps that were not addressed in accordance with the state, national and international guidelines.”…


Orange County Tackles Its Human Trafficking Hotbed 

Visitors flock to Southern California for its beaches and sunshine, but there’s a darker side to Orange County’s tourism industry that law officials are working to combat: human trafficking. Orange County has become a destination location for human trafficking victims, officials from the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force said during an April 6 press conference in…


Australia Report Says Make Google and Facebook Pay for News

CANBERRA, Australia—Australia’s Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world’s first such laws. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has been scrutinizing the bill since it was introduced in Parliament in December. The senators rejected Facebook and Google’s arguments that…


China Among 31 Countries Repressing Its Citizens Abroad: Report

It is the first global-scale investigation on how some governments grind down democracies and influence diaspora and exiles who live beyond their sovereignty. The report (pdf) released by Freedom House on Feb. 2 reveals that 31 origin states are conducting “physical transnational repression”—including through detention, assault, physical intimidation, unlawful deportation, rendition, or suspected assassination—in 79 host countries….


Trump, RNC Raised $86 Million Online for Efforts to Investigate Election Integrity

Former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the last 37 days of 2020 raised $86 million online, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Friday. The president’s legal team at the time was calling for supporters to donate to the campaign’s efforts to seek investigations to ensure the integrity…


Trump, RNC Raise $86 Million Online for Efforts to Investigate Election Integrity

Former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) in the last 37 days of 2020 raised $86 million online, according to a Jan. 29 filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The president’s legal team at the time was seeking support for the campaign’s efforts to investigate the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. The…


‘This Election Is an Embarrassment to Our Nation’: Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano

Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-33) said Monday that fraud and corruption in the state were so serious that this election became an embarrassment to the United States. He listed a dozen ways fraud has been proven in the state. “Why is the very state where the Light of Liberty was lit in 1776 … unable…