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Malaysian prisoners plead guilty to conspiring in 2002 Bali bombing
New York Times, Published on 18/01/2024
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Two Malaysian prisoners at Guantánamo Bay pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, which killed more than 200 people.
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Viktor Bout’s release is hailed in Russia as a Kremlin victory
New York Times, Published on 10/12/2022
» In the West, he is known as a convicted illicit arms trafficker, "the merchant of death" who helped fuel wars around the world. But in Russia, Viktor Bout was welcomed home this week as something of a hero or at least an innocent victim of American politics.
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Guantánamo prisoner 'was waterboarded'; agents omitted it from memo
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2022
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.
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Protesters are back, and angrier, as govt fumbles on Covid
New York Times, Published on 06/09/2021
» In air heavy with monsoonal pressure and discontent, the riot police in Bangkok unleashed rubber bullets and tear gas. Tanat Thanakitamnuay, the scion of a real estate family, stood on a truck, where he had been excoriating Thailand’s leaders for their bungled response to the pandemic.
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Myanmar coup puts seal on autocracy’s rise in SE Asia
New York Times, Published on 13/04/2021
» Late last month, foreign officials in army regalia toasted their hosts in Naypyitaw, the bunkered capital built by Myanmar’s military. Ice clinked in frosted glasses. A lavish spread had been laid out for the foreign dignitaries in honor of Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day.
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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.
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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.
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Trump heads to Asia with ambitious agenda
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2017
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump departs on his first trip to Asia on Friday weakened and scandal-scarred, ready to face off against newly empowered Chinese and Japanese leaders in a region increasingly determined to set its course without American direction.
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Joshua Wong, 2 others jailed for Hong Kong pro-democracy protest
New York Times, Published on 18/08/2017
» HONG KONG - Three prominent young leaders of Hong Kong's democracy movement were sentenced Thursday to six to eight months in prison, a severe setback for the technically semi-autonomous Chinese city in its struggle for greater political freedom under Communist Party rule.
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Ultranationalist Myanmar monks unrepentant
New York Times, Published on 28/05/2017
» HONG KONG — In the wake of vigilante attacks and brawls that have shaken Yangon, Myanmar’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, the country’s religious authorities are ramping up a crackdown on hard-line Buddhist monks who have played increasingly public roles as sectarian provocateurs.
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