2022/04/01 |
Malaysian Proposal to Phase Out Smoking Sparks Controversy, Concerns Over Corruption
This proposal comes after New Zealand announced plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year each year to permanently ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2008.
2022/04/29 |
Myanmar Junta Hits Opposition Forces With Communications Blackouts
Myanmar’s junta has been cracking down on opposition forces by cutting off mobile internet service and telephone lines in strongholds of local armed groups.
2022/12/16 |
China Trying To Fight Back US Ban on Its Chip Industry
On Thursday, the U.S. government broadened its crackdown on China’s chip industry by adding memory chipmaker YMTC and 21 “major” Chinese players in the artificial intelligence chip sector to a Commerce Department trade blacklist.
2022/12/22 |
UN Council Adopts Resolution Urging End to Myanmar Violence
This is the first Security Council resolution on Myanmar since the country became a U.N. member in 1948.
2022/10/07 |
UN Council Rejects Uyghur Resolution on China by Narrow Margin
This is the first time the council has considered a proposal to debate the human rights situation in Xinjiang.
2022/07/19 |
Thailand Sets 2028 Target To Finish High-speed Rail Link With China
Thailand’s new goal to finish the railway line from Bangkok to the Lao border is feasible but may be more of a political statement, analysts say.
2022/09/02 |
Biden to Name Arctic Ambassador as China Eyes Region
The United States and Nordic nations are growing wary of the risks of China's expanding influence in the Arctic. China considers itself a “near-Arctic state.”
2022/03/14 |
Chinese Premier to Step Down ahead of Leadership Change
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang compared the increasingly difficult task of managing the economy to climbing a high mountain with “less oxygen.”
2022/07/06 |
Who Will Win in Thailand’s Cannabis Industry?
Small farmers fear that a new cannabis bill will be written with the interests of large corporations in mind.
2022/05/13 |
China Faces Grim Economic Prospects, Experts Say
Analysts say the slowdown is attributable not only to China’s Covid policies but also to a crackdown on private enterprise, especially in the technology sector.
2022/01/13 |
With West Distracted by Pandemic, Vietnam Ramps Up Repression
“Vietnam is the world’s third-largest prison for journalists, right after autocratic regimes like Xi’s China, and junta-ruled Myanmar.”
2022/07/01 |
UN Investigator Warns of Increased Violence in Myanmar
More than a quarter million children have been displaced by junta attacks, hundreds have been killed or maimed, and more than 1,400 arbitrarily detained, said the UN special rapporteur.
2022/06/13 |
Preserve the Truth: Historical Books, Documents in Danger as Marcos Family Returns to Power
Books on martial law have been selling fast in the weeks after Marcos Jr. was elected president over fear that these will be banned or purged.
2022/07/15 |
US Beefs up South Pacific Aid, Diplomacy as China Spreads Its Influence
Washington intends to return the U.S. Peace Corps to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu, citing progress toward reestablishing a U.S. Agency for International Development regional mission for the Pacific in Fiji.
2022/04/22 |
YouTube Blocks Account of Hong Kong’s Sole Leadership Candidate
John Lee was among a group of 11 top Hong Kong and Chinese government officials sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury, including current Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, for curtailing political freedoms under Beijing’s national security law.
2022/05/23 |
Chinese-language Newspaper: Gunman Mailed Documents Before Attack
World Journal said it did not report on the contents of the mailed materials, instead turning them over to Orange County police for its investigation.
2022/11/09 |
Eyeing Global Food Crisis, Beijing Revives Elements of Planned Economy
Beijing is promoting the development of supply and marketing cooperatives for agricultural products and state-run canteens as relations between China and Western democracies deteriorate.
2022/11/23 |
Thailand’s Pot Boosters Battle Bid to Delegalize Cannabis
Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana for medicinal purposes in June, but calls are mounting to relist the plant as a narcotic.