# Singapore and South Korea have removed American grocery store Trader Joe’s popular Everything But the Bagel seasoning from online platforms because it contains poppy seeds. The seeds can be contaminated with opiates during harvesting. Both countries have strict policies towards controlled drugs. South Korean tests reportedly found morphine and codeine in the product. Singapore […]
# President Vladimir Putin waarsku oor vergelding as Europese lande op Rusland se handelsvaartuie beslag lê. Die staatsnuusagentskap TASS berig die Europese Unie verskerp druk op Rusland se sogenaamde skaduvloot. Die EU het sy sanksies teen honderde vaartuie uitgebrei, terwyl sekere skepe en hul bemannings aangehou word vir inspeksies. Verskeie Europese regerings het aangedui hul […]
# The SKA Observatory has released a new book outlining the scientific research expected from the Square Kilometre Array as construction progresses. The book titled, “Advancing Astrophysics II,” contains 221 peer-reviewed papers from more than one-thousand-500 scientists in 51 countries. South Africa hosts the SKA-Mid instrument, which will eventually comprise 197 dishes, including MeerKAT. Australia […]
# President Vladimir Putin says Russia will respond in kind if European countries seize his country’s merchant vessels. TASS state news agency reports this comes as the European Union intensifies pressure on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, expanding sanctions against hundreds of vessels and detaining some ships and their crews for checks. Some European governments have […]
# Suid-Korea het ‘n omvattende tegnologiestrategie onthul wat op sewe sleutelprojekte fokus en wissel van kernenergie en kwantumrekenaars tot ruimtevaart en biotegnologie. Die land wil nuwe dryfkragte vir ekonomiese groei ontwikkel wat verder strek as halfgeleiers en kunsmatige intelligensie. President Lee Jae-myung het tydens die bekendstelling gesê die strategie verenig doelwitte. Dit sluit in die […]
# Die vakbondfederasie SAFTU sê duisende verlate, vervalle en onbeveiligde myne het doodstrikke, omgewingsgevare en ‘n teelaarde vir georganiseerde misdaadsindikate geword. Veertien onwettige mynwerkers is gister dood in ‘n rotstorting in ‘n myn in Nkaneng naby Rustenburg in Noordwes. Die meeste van hulle was van Lesotho. Asive Dyani van SAFTU sê die tragedie toon opnuut […]
# Die Grensbestuursowerheid sê die onlangse massa-uitsettings het nie daarin geslaag om buitelanders te ontmoedig om die land weer binne te kom nie. Altesaam 89-duisend-936 mense is teen 7 Augustus uit die land gerepatrieer, teen ‘n koste van byna 293-miljoen-rand. Die owerheid het vier-duisend-229 individue vanaf Zimbabwe, Lesotho en Mosambiek onderskep wat tussen 1 April […]
# Agriculture experts have revealed that near-record food inventories, improved farming technology and stronger exporters are expected to cushion the global food systems against potential severe El Niño. In addition, advances in drought-tolerant crops, irrigation, precision agriculture and weather forecasting have strengthened resilience. However, experts warn that drought, fertilizer shortages and geopolitical disruptions could still […]
# Union federation SAFTU says thousands of abandoned, derelict and inadequately secured mines have become death traps, environmental hazards and breeding grounds for organised criminal syndicates. A rockfall at a mine at Nkaneng near Rustenburg in North West killed 14 illegal miners yesterday, most of them from Lesotho. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says this tragedy once […]
