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Myanmar junta to lose restive state to armed group
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/08/2024
» SINGAPORE - Myanmar’s junta is on the verge of being expelled from a western-most state bordering Bangladesh, according to a new report, marking the one of the biggest military losses since a 2021 coup led to renewed civilian conflict across the country.
Russian athletes headed to Paris have military links, support war
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/07/2024
» HAGUE - More than half of the Russian and Belarusian athletes cleared to compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 have links to military agencies or showed support for the war in Ukraine, according to a human rights group which is urging sponsors of the Games to intervene.
Israel raids Al Jazeera’s offices after banning broadcaster
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/05/2024
» Israeli officials seized Al Jazeera equipment on Sunday, hours after the nation’s cabinet approved a decision to shutter the Qatar-based TV news network’s operations in the Jewish state - an unprecedented step toward an international media outlet.
EU, Philippines announce restart of free trade talks
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/03/2024
» MANILA - The European Union (EU) and the Philippines announced the resumption of their free trade negotiations, seven years after they were halted, Manila's Department of Trade and Industry said in a statement.
Singapore builds AI model to 'represent' Southeast Asians
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/02/2024
» SINGAPORE - Like millions worldwide, Southeast Asians have been trying out large language models (LLMs) such as Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral AI - but in their native Bahasa Indonesia or Thai. The result has usually been gibberish in English.
Tesla, VW at risk of ties to Uyghur forced labour in China
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/02/2024
» NEW YORK - Five of the world's major carmakers are not sufficiently mapping their supply chains to stamp out links to forced labour programs in China's Xinjiang region, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).
US imposes sanctions on lucrative Myanmar state oil firm
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/11/2023
» YANGON - The United States announced sanctions against the Myanmar junta’s most lucrative state-owned enterprise, one of Washington’s most significant moves yet to curtail the military regime’s access to easy cashflow to buy weapons.
China deserves new sanctions over Xinjiang - EU
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/06/2022
» European Union (EU) lawmakers pushed to bolster sanctions against Chinese officials involved in alleged human rights violations in the western region of Xinjiang.
Swiss bank secrecy law has ‘chilling effect'
Bloomberg News, Published on 03/05/2022
» A controversial feature of Switzerland’s vaunted banking-secrecy rules has come under attack from a United Nations human-rights expert who’s urged the Swiss government to immediately review its statutes.
UN suspends Russia from human rights panel as Thailand, 57 others abstain
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/04/2022
» The United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over its conduct in Ukraine, although dozens of nations abstained despite the Ukrainian ambassador’s pleadings to defend “the innocent lives lost” in the two-month war.