There are multiple apps and websites that sell and deliver alcohol including Airtasker, Liquoroo and Jimmy Brings. To use these services all that is required is a credit card and a smart phone.
Alberta’s minimum wage for young workers and the merits of liquor law restrictions came into focus Tuesday as provincial leaders staked out policy positions ahead of a spring election.
NEW DELHI: A survey to assess the prevalence of underage drinking, alcohol consumption, and procurement patterns among youth has found that 88.8 per cent youth start drinking before the legal drinking age and procure alcohol without any age check.
The Bali administration is set to legalize traditional Balinese arak (liquor made from tuak, a sweet drink from coconut palm flower) with the hope that it will serve as a new trademark of Indonesia’s main tourist destination, said Bali Governor Wayan Koster.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Canada - Proposed changes to the University of New Brunswick’s alcohol policy is raising eyebrows instead of pitchers. UNB presented an update to the alcohol policy on campus during a University of New Brunswick Student Union council meeting on Jan. 27.
Russian health minister Veronika Skvortsova, says 70 percent of deaths among working-age men are alcohol-related, even though consumption of alcohol and alcohol surrogates has fallen in recent years.
Hong Kong should ditch its outdated, high taxation system for strong alcohol, a regional trade body told the finance chief, claiming its proposals on tax reform could bring in more than HK$1 billion in economic benefits and turn the city into a spirits auction hub of Asia.
More than 70 people have died in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the past three days after consuming cheap spurious liquor containing poisonous methanol.
TORONTO — The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is ramping up security measures at some of its locations across the province amid reports of an increase in brazen thefts at liquor stores.
The above headlines might seem to contradict one another. The Daily Mail says that Britain is sobering up, while the Guardian claims that a significant number drink too much, and the Independent announces alcohol-related deaths are at a record high. So who’s right?