Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Chinese netizens are aghast after the government of Shenzhen, China issued a decree, saying it will charge men who use their public toilets but can't aim their shoot well inside the urinal.

Local Canadians lose have become gains for the nationals of the Philippines and India who are looking out for jobs. Retailer Sears Canada has announced it will shed some 245 jobs locally, of which some will be outsourced overseas.

Unless the governments of the world find immediate solutions to curb their respective fossil fuel consumptions and carbon emissions, the global populace might as well retire to an impending plausible scenario of rising sea levels by year 2100 to as much as three feet high.

Authorities from both government and private sectors from the Philippines have brought forces together as they race to contain the oil spill damage in Cebu which has already greatly affected the sources of livelihood in the province.

With Japan yet to roll out whatever plans it has to mitigate the damaging effects of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant which has already leaked highly radioactive water to its nearby ocean waters, a group of people has expressed their desire to turn the site into a tourist spot. Seriously. Would you go visit?

Effective November, China will cease harvesting the internal organs of its executed prisoners which has supported the requirements of its national organ donation system for years.

Temperaments in Russia's LGBT community as well as from those around the world, initially exuberant, have gotten confused after two female Russian athletes denied their kiss meant anything to support the global gay movement and defy their country's stiff rules on gay propaganda.

With the string of vehicular accidents in Canada caused by distracted driving, citizens believed it is about time to consider the behaviour liable for a criminal offense charge complete with stiffer penalties.

Netizens in China may expect to have faster and a wide-ranging coverage of the country's broadband services by 2020.

The global populace, most specially those living along the world's coastal cities, either pack up and relocate to high grounds as early as now or accept their fate as the intensity of floods currently lapping the Earth will get more severe and damaging in the coming years.

Police authorities in China have detained a fellow police officer following allegations he had hurled a baby girl to the ground to prove to his friends the infant was just a doll.

Two Canadians, a filmmaker and an ER doctor, have been arrested in Egypt after failing to comply with the imposed curfew amidst the violence and protests in the country of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.

After filing for bankruptcy early in August, U.S.-based Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), the rail company implicated in the Lac-Megantic fuel train disaster, has been found capable to settle insurance responsibilities but only in the short term. Thus, the suspension of its license announced on Thursday has been reversed, but only good until Oct 1.

Instead of a magnificent roar akin to Lion King's Mufasa or Simba, tourists got the surprise of their lives when a lion in a zoo in eastern China gave off a bark. And in yet another China epic fraud, where phones, toys and car parts can be faked, people still could believe even zoo animals can be faked.

Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Co), operator of the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear plant that was destroyed in March 2011 by a tsunami that followed a magnitude 9 earthquake, has officially received a full-backing government plan on how to clean-up the crippled plant.

People when making career changes in the hopes of increasing their value often just change employers. But for those radical enough, maybe it's not just a change of office address that's needed but an out of the box shift from one type of profession to another.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. on Thursday slammed an order issued by the government of Canada's Quebec stating it has been included among a list of companies financially accountable for the cleanup of Lac-Megantic town which was severely devastated in a train derailment disaster in July.

Chinese people, used as they maybe to babies abandoned or killed by parents because of their government's constrictive one-child policy, still cries out whenever a helpless child is maltreated severely.

A newborn baby boy in the U.S.' central Pennsylvania is lucky to still be alive today after receiving a dose of painkillers that was meant for his mum who underwent C-section in order to give birth to him.

A dwindling population rate has forced the government of Russia to plan to close more than 700 schools this 2013. The low numbers in its young population has corresponded to a low number of school age children.

Canada's transportation regulator on Wednesday announced it has suspended the license to operate of U.S.-based rail company Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd. (MMA), following the involvement of one its trains in the July Quebec fuel train disaster.

Damages from the flooding brought by a severe thunderstorm that struck Canada's Toronto on July 8 have been so far dubbed the costliest for the province's insurers.

Unless China radically implements measures and steps to salvage what remains of its environment, it may have to expect and get used to dwindling tourist numbers.

The remains of a UK woman who has long been dead has been found by police albeit in a very sad state. If only her pet cats can explain to authorities, they would surely say they did what they had done because they needed to survive.

As tensions between India and Pakistan escalate due to border disputes in Kashmir, India on Tuesday announced it had successfully test fired its locally built nuclear-ready missile.

Members of the LGBT community in Russia who fear for their lives in Vladimir Putin's bailiwick have found a supporter in Canada. The latter's immigration minister hinted of accepting claims for gay asylum seekers from Russia.

Students wanting to study overseas, particularly in Australia, either need to have been able to have saved a lot or at least able to maintain two jobs to be able to afford paying for their tuition costs and other expenses. According to a new research HSBC, Australia ranks the list of most expensive countries for oversea students, followed by the United States, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Canada is cheaper.

Not that it had been categorically denied because its maps had long been inefficient and useless, but Apple's request to 3D map the capitol of Norway's Oslo has been flatly denied by the federal government.

Canada's Capital District Health Authority in the province of Nova Scotia is about to get enmeshed in a potentially disruptive legal landmark case. A woman from Halifax is about to press charges against the health service provider after losing her breast due to a sickening hospital records mix-up.