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  • News & article

    Beijing-backed info?

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/11/2023

    » Re: "Journalists tour 'once violent' Xinjiang", (BP, Nov 2).

  • News & article

    Journalists tour 'once violent' Xinjiang

    News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 02/11/2023

    » China allowed a number of international media organisations to observe what is hailed as success in containing terrorist-related violence in Xinjiang.

  • News & article

    Uighurs' plight a lesson for govt

    News, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2023

    » The case of 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church who were arrested for overstaying visas in Pattaya last week brings back memories of the notorious repatriation of another group of Uighur refugees back to China in 2014.

  • News & article

    Time to solve Uighur saga

    Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/02/2023

    » The death of Aziz Abdullah, a Uighur detainee at Bangkok's Immigration Detention Centre, is the epitome of the government's mishandling of those escaping China's southwestern Xinjiang region as well as the Muslim minority group's long-forgotten plight on Thai soil.

  • News & article

    Follow-up needed

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/02/2023

    » Re: "Authorities confirm death of Uighur asylum seeker", (BP, Feb 22) and "Govt confirms deportation of 109 Uighurs to China", (BP, July 9, 2015).

  • News & article

    UN rights chief admits 'tremendous pressure' over Xinjiang report

    AFP, Published on 25/08/2022

    » GENEVA: The UN rights chief said Thursday she was facing "tremendous pressure" over a long-delayed report on China's Xinjiang region and admitted that she was uncertain when it would appear.

  • News & article

    Why is China's Uighur population shrinking?

    Oped, Published on 22/07/2022

    » After becoming the Communist Party of China's (CPC's) chief of Xinjiang province in 2016, Chen Quanguo oversaw a security crackdown that led to a sharp drop in births. Some observers accused China's leadership of committing genocide against the province's mostly Muslim Uighur population through forced sterilisation and abortion. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi dismissed the allegations as "fake news", arguing that Xinjiang's Uighur population had grown steadily to 12.7 million in 2018, an increase of 25% from 2010 -- and higher than the 14% increase in the province's total population.

  • News & article

    5-golden-star review

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/07/2022

    » Re: "A new era of BRICS cooperation", (Opinion, June 30).

  • News & article

    China: No more being Mister Nice Guy

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2022

    » More than 200 Hong Kong police raided and shut down one of the last pro-democracy news websites in Hong Kong before on Wed of Dec 29, in the latest sign that the Beijing regime will no longer tolerate dissent of any kind. It was total overkill -- a couple of cops with a court order would have sufficed -- but they were 'sending a message' to other "malcontents".

  • News & article

    Year of Turbulence

    Asia focus, Published on 27/12/2021

    » Pandemic drags on recovery: In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, many Asian countries had enviable success, avoiding large-scale outbreaks and mass deaths. But the arrival of the more transmissible Delta variant this year and sluggish vaccine rollouts compounded by low availability sent cases surging. Combined with poor monitoring and easy movement among countries, often unofficially, Southeast Asia became a virus hotspot. The ballooning health crisis collided with churning political discontent in the case of Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia. Economically, the new wave of infections, and attendant restrictions imposed to curb the spread, stalled recoveries. After nearly two years of strict border controls, many countries started to loosen up and live with Covid. But the rise of the Omicron variant now threatens to scuttle those tentative reopening plans and usher in a third year of economic anxiety.

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