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Singapore's riches grew under its leader, so did discontent
New York Times, Published on 15/05/2024
» SINGAPORE — Singapore was once known as an affluent and strait-laced city-state. Today, it is a glitzy international destination. It has hosted Taylor Swift concerts and Formula One-night races. And it is substantially richer, per capita, than the United States.
Why Myanmar’s war matters, even if the world is not watching
New York Times, Published on 20/04/2024
» SEOUL — An escalating civil war threatens to break apart a country of roughly 55 million people that sits between China and India. That has international consequences, but the conflict has not commanded wide attention.
First Ukraine city falls as Russia strikes more civilian targets
New York Times, Published on 03/03/2022
» ODESSA, Ukraine: Russian forces on Wednesday seized the first major Ukrainian city in their onslaught, the strategic port of Kherson, as they stepped up bombardment of civilian targets across the country, put other cities under siege and pushed to encircle and cut off the capital, Kyiv.
Cambodia internet soon to be like China
New York Times, Published on 15/01/2022
» PHNOM PENH: The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor Wat and carted him off to the police station. Kea Sokun, who is also a popular rapper, had released two songs on YouTube, and the men said they needed to know why he had written them.
Govt targets pro-democracy protesters in sweeping legal dragnet
New York Times, Published on 01/02/2021
» A 16-year-old boy is facing possible jail time for parading down a makeshift catwalk in a crop top said to evoke His Majesty the King. An actress stands accused of breaking the law by cheering on and delivering spicy takeout to hungry members of the country’s protest movement.
‘Be There. Will Be Wild!’: Trump all but circled the date
New York Times, Published on 07/01/2021
» NEW YORK: For weeks, President Donald Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the steal” of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained -- often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories -- that he had won by a landslide.
Born in blood, Myanmar's army prospers
New York Times, Published on 29/01/2018
» YANGON: For Myanmar's army, the campaign of atrocity it has waged to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims out of the country is no innovation. The force was born in blood 76 years ago and has been shedding it ever since.