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Australian schools help Chinese students beat travel ban
Published on 14/03/2020
» More than 31,000 Chinese students have made their way back to Australia for the new term after spending two weeks in Thailand and other third countries to get around the government’s travel ban, according to Australian media reports.
Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Hong Kong's universities now citadels under siege
New York Times, Published on 14/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Seething with anger, the black-clad students hurled gasoline bombs, threw bricks and even aimed flaming arrows at riot police, who answered with tear-gas volleys and rubber bullets that hurtled into Hong Kong’s university grounds for the first time.
Cambodia’s Sam Rainsy meets Malaysian MPs in democracy push
Reuters, Published on 12/11/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR/PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's self-exiled opposition veteran Sam Rainsy met Malaysian lawmakers on Tuesday in a push to rally support in Southeast Asia against authoritarian ruler Hun Sen just as the European Union considers withdrawing trade preferences.
Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest
Published on 10/11/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia freed opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest on Sunday, more than two years after he was arrested and charged with treason, but the charges remain and he is banned from politics and from leaving the country. In a Facebook post, he demanded that the charges be dropped.
Canada vote too close to call as Trudeau hopes to cling on
AFP, Published on 21/10/2019
» OTTAWA: Canadians vote in a general election Monday with polling predicting a minority government as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party risks losing its majority or even being kicked out of office.
QuickWrap Podcast Sept 22, 2019
Published on 22/09/2019
» Click the image below for a quick look back at some of the week's top stories in the Bangkok Post.
People in Hong Kong eye Malaysia's second-home programme
Reuters, Published on 20/08/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian programme to attract wealthy foreigners to live in the Southeast Asian nation has drawn 251 applications from Hong Kong residents this year, compared with 193 approved last year from the Chinese-ruled city, a government official said.
Iron Curtain anniversary marked amid new divides
AFP, Published on 19/08/2019
» BUDAPEST: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the city of Sopron Monday to commemorate a pivotal moment in the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.
Race to replace UK's May gets underway
AFP, Published on 10/06/2019
» LONDON: Around a dozen British Conservative MPs will formally throw their hats into the ring on Monday in the fight to replace Theresa May as party leader and Prime Minister, with her former foreign secretary Boris Johnson seen as the runaway favourite.