Tea
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Poor tea pickers pay the price for a British cuppa | Letter
Sabita Banerji highlights the pitiful pay and conditions of tea plantation workers in response to an article a…
- Business, Commodities, Employment, Food, Global development, Inequality, Inequality and development, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tea, World news
‘We give our blood so they live comfortably’: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make…
- Bangladesh, Food, Global development, Global health, Health, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, Tea, Women, World news
‘It’s spreading faster than we’ve ever seen’: the mission to halt leprosy in Bangladesh’s tea gardens
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka Gonju d…
- Africa, Asia Pacific, China, Climate change, Environment, Food, India, Kenya, Science, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tea, World news
Tea-growing areas to be badly hit if global heating intensifies
In Kenya, the area of optimal tea-growing conditions will be reduced by more than a quarter by 2050Your mornin…
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India’s tea workers strike as government fails to deliver wage increase
Unions warn of further action over non-payment of rise agreed in 2018, as hundreds of Assam tea estates closeO…
- Bhopal, Black Lives Matter movement, Class issues, Education, History, Holocaust, India, Kenya, Protest, Race, Schools, Slavery, Tea
Tackling deep-rooted racism will take courage | Letters
John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna o…
- Coronavirus outbreak, Employment, Food, Global development, Global health, Governance, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Tea, World news
Soap and solace scarce as Sri Lanka’s tea pickers toil on amid lockdown
Workers in a sector with a history of exploitation face hazards including a lack of masks and overcrowded acco…
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‘Detox teas’ containing laxative senna pulled from New Zealand shelves
Consumer NZ says its use could lead to liver damage and companies need consent from drug safety bodyThey are t…
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David Kilburn obituary
My friend David Kilburn, who has died in Seoul, South Korea, aged 76, enjoyed a varied career as an advertisin…