Cultureteca 17.05.20
At the onset of another week under coronavirus, the World Health Organization encouraged ‘extreme vigilance’ as countries continued to ease lockdown measures. Japan lifted its state of emergency across 39 of 47...
Cultureteca 03.05.20
As reopening plans began to supersede coronavirus case counts in the public imagination, the week brought plenty of positives across Asia-Pacific. With no cases of community transmission in New Zealand, the director...
Cultureteca 26.04.20
Dwindling cases of coronavirus across Asia Pacific, the stabilisation of the outbreak in Europe, and the gradual easing of restrictions around the world were positives offset this week by persistently high fatalities...
Cultureteca 19.04.20
The new phase of life under coronavirus no longer sees rapid societal shifts and exponential spread, but rather stolid perseverance under creeping restrictions as deaths and rates of infection stabilise while exacting...
Cultureteca 12.04.20
As the world endured another stretch in the stockades of coronavirus, the start of the week brought mixed messages, with the crisis easing in previous hotspots across Asia and continental Europe while...
Cultureteca 05.04.20
In a new world defined and condemned by coronavirus, at the start of the week the global death tally surged beyond 36,000 with 750,000 cases and 150,000 recoveries worldwide, much of the...
Daily Visual 01.03.16: Super Tuesday Round One
By the time the United States presidential election is upon us towards the end of 2016, everything ought to seem very simple, a straightforward slugfest between a Democrat and a Republican with the prize...
Daily Visual 13.02.16: Supreme Court Justice Scalia Dies
On Saturday evening news broke of the death of Antonin Scalia, who had served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since his appointment by Ronald Reagan...
Daily Visual 04.02.16: Trans-Pacific Partnership Signed
At a ceremony in Auckland on Thursday, twelve countries of the Pacific Rim – the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Brunei – signed...