Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #783: TUESDAY April 20, 2021: POISONED by award winning Tampa Bay Times photographers Martha Asencio Rhine, Dick Shadd, James Borchuck and Yalonda M. James.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #783: TUESDAY April 20, 2021: POISONED by award winning Tampa Bay Times photographers Martha Asencio Rhine, Dick Shadd, James Borchuck and Yalonda M. James: Hundreds of workers at a Tampa lead smelter have been exposed to dangerous levels of the neurotoxin. Gopher exposed workers for years to levels of lead in the air that were hundreds of times higher than the federal limit. The consequences have been profound. Tampa Bay Times reporters Corey G. Johnson, Rebecca Woolington and Eli Murray spent 18 months examining thousands of pages of regulatory reports and company documents, including data tracking the amount of lead in the air and in workers’ blood. OSHA The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is supposed to ensure that companies provide safe work environments. But the regulatory agency has repeatedly bungled the job at Gopher, allowing hazardous conditions to persist for years, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found. Welcome to: POISONED

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Congrats to ZUMA Photographer Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi for winning second place in the Taiwan Press Photo Contest 2021, Series Photo Category.

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Protest Against Citizenship Amendment Act In India

Since the proposal of Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens by PM Narendra Modi’s administration in Nov 2019, India has been brimming with indignations. 

In New Delhi and Mumbai, countless people especially women, students and children congregate in large numbers, organising marches, assemblies to demand for withdrawal of the two legislations deemed subverting muslims’ right to have citizenships and the fundamentals of asylum seekers. 

National flags of India, portraits of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar have been utilised as significations for the nationwide movement.

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ZUMA’s Daniel Ceng Shot-Yi featured on WSJ.com April 16, 2021

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April 11, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwanese people wearing face masks walk past a huge banner with a Taiwan national flag amid increased tensions with China. With Beijing sending more jet fighters cruising around the island, Taiwan foreign minister Joseph Wu has said Taiwan will defend itself to the ‘very last.’ Taiwan has recently been fostering its relationship with the United States on military, economy, technology and medical services.

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Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week#782:TUESDAY April 13, 2021:’AFGHANISTAN Exhausted By War’ by photographer Azimi of Xinhua.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #782: TUESDAY April 13, 2021: ‘AFGHANISTAN Exhausted By War’ by photographer Azimi of Xinhua: Afghanistan remained the deadliest country for civilians in 2020, as peace talks began between the Afghan government and the Taliban, ‘As fighting persisted, while the peace talks struggled to get off the ground, all sides to Afghanistan’s conflict continued to cause terrible harm to civilians,’ said Patricia Gossman, associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch. US President Biden will remove all US troops from Afghanistan before this year’s 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, finally ending America’s longest war despite mounting fears of a Taliban victory. Some had hoped the Biden administration would adopt a more ‘conditions-based’ approach to the peace process. Instead, that has been explicitly ruled out, but a major conference in Istanbul, later this month could see progress. Many observers have stated that the Taliban effectively believes that it has won and can wait out the US withdrawal, but the United States is eager to try to find a lasting peace solution that could bring stability. ‘Neither the Afghan or US governments have demonstrated a commitment to justice for the conflict’s victims and their families,’ Gossman said. ‘ICC member states and other governments should press for credible accountability to be part of the peace negotiations.’ Welcome to: ‘AFGHANISTAN Exhausted By War’

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ZUMA’s Liau Chung-Ren featured on Spiegel.de

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November 23, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Joshua Wong ( 24 ) facing the medias outside West Kowloon Magistracy this morning during court hearing. Joshua Wong pleaded guilty to inciting and organizing ‘unauthorized assembly’, pleaded not guilty for knowingly taking part in ‘unauthorized assembly’, and the prosecution offered no evidence to the latter.

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