Toyota settles with family of bullied engineer who committed work-related suicide
Jun 08, 2021 00:13 am UTC| Economy Business Law Life
Toyota Motor Corp has settled with the family of an engineer whose suicide in 2017 was ruled to have been a regional labor bureau as job-related as it was caused by harassment from his boss. The amount of compensation...
How to keep your house cool – cover it with new whiter-than-white paint, says research
Jun 08, 2021 00:13 am UTC| Life
From icy tundras to billowing clouds, the colour white crops up repeatedly in our planets palette. This colour provides a natural way for light from the sun to reflect back from the Earths surface and into space. This...
'Bride kidnapping' haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young women to flee their homeland
Jun 08, 2021 00:01 am UTC| Life
There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasus and Central...
Obituary: TB Joshua, Nigeria's controversial Pentecostal titan
Jun 07, 2021 09:46 am UTC| Life
The controversial Nigerian televangelist, faith healer, and neo-Pentecostal pastor Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua has died at the age of 57. He was the leader of Nigeria-based The Synagogue Church of All Nations. Many...
May 20, 2021 01:17 am UTC| Life
As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote work. A good example of this is a...
Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do with it
May 16, 2021 12:22 pm UTC| Life
Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen and the...
Making space for Buddha in the boardroom
May 09, 2021 08:48 am UTC| Life
It seems farfetched to imagine that an ancient meditation technique, practised by Buddhists over 2,000 years ago, could have a place in the 21st-century corporate boardroom. Yet, despite criticisms that it is just...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects