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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

    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.

  • News & article

    Speaking up about forced labour

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 20/12/2021

    » In a move that could further sour relations between the world's two largest economies, the US Congress last week agreed on legislation aimed at punishing China for the alleged oppression of Uighur Muslims.

  • News & article

    Xi-Biden summit a hopeful sign

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 15/11/2021

    » As the US and China stake out rival security strategies in the Asia-Pacific region, notably on Taiwan, the world takes heart from comments by Chinese President Xi Jinping that Beijing is ready to manage differences with Washington as the leaders of the two superpowers prepare to meet virtually today, the first since US President Joe Biden took office in January.

  • News & article

    Sub salvage mission brings Jakarta, Beijing closer

    News, Published on 25/05/2021

    » Amid the uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia was deeply saddened by the sinking of KRI Nanggala 402 last month. On April 21, the Indonesian Navy submarine sunk off the coast of Bali after losing contact shortly after it was authorised to begin its operation. All 53 crew perished in the incident.

  • News & article

    Pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper halts shares after asset freeze

    AFP, Published on 17/05/2021

    » Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy media group announced it was halting share trading Monday, two days after authorities froze the assets of its jailed owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law.

  • News & article

    UN is failing the Uighurs in China

    Oped, Published on 07/05/2021

    » Of the 11 million Uighur Muslims living in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, up to two million of them, including ethnic Uzbeks and Kazakhs have been detained inside camps, while those remaining on the outside facing a crackdown for a number of years. Human rights organizations and many foreign governments have described the many human rights abuses inflicted on the Uighur people as genocide.

  • News & article

    Chinese celebs ditch Western brands in Xinjiang flap

    Published on 26/03/2021

    » BEIJING: Chinese celebrity endorsers have abandoned several foreign retail labels, including Nike and other top US brands, as Western concerns over labour conditions in Xinjiang spark a patriotic backlash from consumers.

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