Day: May 25, 2017

OOSKAnews.com fraud _ 885 days gone, no payment of my stories

OOSKAnews fraud

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Dear Readers,

I am writing this to inform you that OOSKAnews is a fraud organisation founded by David Duncan, who is also its CEO. In March 2015, I started writing stories for the OOSKAnews.com _ based in Virginia, USA, on issues relating to water sector development in Pakistan and even after a lapse of more than 790 days OOSKAnews had not paid a penny. OOSKAnews.com has deprived me of more than US$3000. About eight another foreign journalists who too used to write for this infamous OOSKAnews.com have also reported non-payment of their stories for a long time.

I started writing for this water portal from mid-March 2015 and continued till first week of Sept 2015. The organisation has published my more than 50 exclusive stories during this period but did not pay a penny till May Sept 5, 2017 (more than 885 days gone without payment). Founder/CEO OOSKAnews David Duncan exchanged many emails with me and other writers, but did not show any interest in making payment and gained more and more time with fake promises.

So I firmly believe that he (David) is a media cheater by nature. How non-serious he is in making payment can be imagined from his words “I will pay you the moment OOSKAnews pays me”. Just imagine the founder and CEO of OOSKAnews is uttering these words that further expose his nature of journalists/writers exploitation by denying payment. Can you imagine that he had not received money from his organisation in past 885 days and is still live and surviving with his infamous organisation.

Here is the pattern of OOSKAnews cheating

Chief Editor OOSKAnews Elizabeth J. Howard allowed me to contribute stories for this website (without making any agreement in writing) with the promise that the organisation will pay US$60 for each story having 350 words. According to Chief Editor, the organisation makes payment after every two months. My first payment was due by 20th of June2015 for the months of April/May. When I asked about the payment in June, Chief Editor Elizabeth Howard said the CEO/Founder of OOSKAnews.com, David Duncan is waiting for payment of couple of contracts and he would make payment as soon as he gets money.

I trusted Liz (chief editor) and continued writing stories with the feeling that the organisation will certainly make payment after getting its cheques. In Aug/Sept2015, I reminded the chief editor again about payment and she said that David is unable to make payment yet. Then I felt that either chief editor or the CEO is cheating me and getting stories without payment. I wonder how an American organisation can sustain for more than 500 days without money and how the Virginia-based staff of the organisation is working without money?

About 885 days have gone now and I am still waiting for payment. A few weeks back the Founder/CEO of OOSKAnews David Dunkan exchanged emails with me just to tell me that “he wants to pay me, but only when he would be able to pay”.

Worth noting is that I have faced dual fraud _ Chief Editor Elizabeth J. Howard threw away (not calculated for payment) half of my stories published by OOSKAnews while the CEO David did not make payment for rest of the stories that Elizabeth calculated for payment from April-Aug 2015 period. On my insistence Chief Editor recalculated stories and said the outstanding amount of payment US$2300 (Aug/Sept 2015 stories not included). By adding Aug/Sept stories, total outstanding payment amounts to over US$2500.

I have sent several reminders for payment, but the organization is not showing any interest in making payment for my stories. I also requested the CEO and Editor in Chief to send money in installments to make easy payment for the organization, but they did not show interest, because they don’t want to make payment.

Now I wonder that a media organization working in Virginia, close to Washington DC, is involved in exploitation of Journalists as it did not pay a penny from (March 2015 to March 2016). I am sharing with you emails of Elizabeth Howard in which she says David is unable to make payment and she cannot guarantee it.

Here are emails of CEO OOSKAnews David Duncan (david@ooskanews.com) and chief editor Elizabeth Howard (liz@ooskanews.com), if anyone interested in it, can contact them. Two more writers of OOSKAnews have contacted me to tell me that they are facing the same problem and not getting for their stories.

On my complaint JEEN (Journalists for Energy and Environment Network) based in Karachi had blacklisted OOSKAnews.com for its default in making payment. JEEN has urged its member journalists not to work for OOSKAnews as long as it does not clear outstanding payment of Javed Mahmood. Here is letter of JEEN.

JEEN Letter

Best Regards

Javed Mahmood

Senior Journalist, Karachi/Islamabad (Pakistan).

Editor, Weekly Corporate Ambassador

Jchoudhry63@gmail.com Cellphone: 92301-4549495/334-3939029

Here are emails of chief editor and stories published by OOSKAnews in which she calculated outstanding amount of payment, but said she cannot do anything as far as payment is concerned and David will make payment.

Emails of Chief Editor _ Elizabeth J. Howard

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Here are my stories published by OOSKAnews from April-Aug 2015.

ADB lends Pakistan $43 Million for Irrigation Projects in Tribal Areas ADB to Lend Pakistan $1 Billion for Water, Irrigation Projects Bahrain based Bank eye water projects in Pakistan Chambers to finance dams Pakistan again seeks $448 million commercial loan from China for Neelum Jhelum Project Pakistan allocates nearly $1 Billion for Land for Diamir Bhasha Dam Project Pakistan Approves Over $1 billion credit plan for Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project Pakistan Evaluates EOIs for Rajdhani, Turtonas Uzghor Hydropower Projects Pakistan Invites EOIs for Athmuqam Hydropower Project Pakistan seeks ADB Financing for Diamer Bhasha and Dasu Hydropower Project Pakistani chambers of commerce eye investment in Dam Projects Pakistani Premier Gives WAPDA July 31st Deadline to secure land for Diamir Bhasha Dam Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Seeks Funds to Build Dams Pakistan's Punjab Province Launches Flood Protection Project Pakistan's Punjab Province to Build 200 Kilometers of Irrigation Canals Pakistan's Punjab Saaf Pani Company Invites Tenders for Clean Drinking Water Project Pakistan's WAPDA invites bids for three canal projects Punjab Small Dams World Bank Releases $50 Million for Pakistan's Dasu Dam World Bank to lend Punjab $41 million for small dam construction World Bank, IFC to Fund Large-Scale Hydropower Projects in PakistanADB lends Pakistan $43 Million for Irrigation Projects in Tribal Areas In Wake of Mianwali Floods, Pakistan announces plans to build more dams Pakistan Navy Launches New Water Treatment Plant in Karachi Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority Building Two Dams to Supply Airport Pakistan's Prime Minister approves $70 million water supply project for Murree Pakistan's Sindh Province Probes Corruption in Irrigation Projects Pakistan's WAPDA to invest $1.34 billion in Dasu Hydropower Project Turkish Cos Keen to Invest in Water, Hydropower Projects in Pakistan WB, Austria, Chinese to Finance Pakistan's Tarbela-5 ProjectFive Pakistani Organisations Join Forces to Support Kalabagh Dam, other projects IDB, SDF to Release $400 Million for Pakistan's Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project Pakistan Allocates $950 Million for Water, Hydropower Projects in 2015-16 Pakistan Approves Construction of Basol Dam Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province starts work on Koto Hydropower project Pakistan seeks $40 Million IDB Loan for Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project Pakistan Seeks Private Sector Support to Complete Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project Pakistani Government Allocates $100 Million for K4 Water Project Pakistan's Punjab Province Lobbies for Kalabagh Dam Pakistan's Sindh Province to Launch $252 Million Karachi Supply Project Pakistan's two largest banks to invest $800 million in Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project Sindh Government to Provide 3,000 Water Tankers Each Day for Parched Karachi Standard Chartered Bank of Pakistan to invest in Dasu Hydropower Project Three Pakistani Provinces allocate over $368 million for water projects World Bank approves $188 Million to Repair Pakistan's Guddu Barrage

India leads with $62b investment, China attracts $59 billion FDI in 2016

Corporate Ambassador Monitoring Report/NEW DELHI: India retained its numero uno position of being the world’s top most greenfield FDI investment destination for the second consecutive year, attracting USD 62.3 billion in 2016, says a report.

India has remained ahead of China and the US as far as FDI inflows were concerned in the last year. FDI by capital investment saw an increase of 2 per cent to USD 62.3 billion in 809 projects during 2016 in India.

The report said, global investment landscape has changed considerably in 2016 as FDI gravitated to locations experiencing the strongest economic growth, while locations in recession or facing high levels of uncertainty saw major declines, reports TOI.

In 2016, greenfield FDI continued to rise worldwide, with capital investment increasing by more than 6 per cent to USD 776.2 billion, its highest since 2011, alongside an increase in job creation by 5 per cent to 2.02 million. The number of FDI projects, however, declined 3 per cent to 12,644.

China has overtaken the US to become the second biggest country for FDI by capital investment, recording USD 59 billion of announced FDI, compared with USD 48 billion-worth in the US. Globally, the real estate sector has claimed the top spot for capital investment, with USD 157.5 billion of announced FDI recorded in 2016, following an increase of 58 per cent. In value terms, coal and natural gas witnessed an inflow of USD 121 billion, followed by alternate and renewable energy at USD 77 billion.