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All eyes on Xi at 100th anniversary of Chinese Communist Party
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» BEIJING - President Xi Jinping will lead centenary celebrations for the Chinese Communist Party in Tiananmen Square on Thursday, pulling on history to remind patriots at home and rivals abroad of China's -- and his own -- irresistible rise.
Rumsfeld, cocksure architect of Iraq war, dead at 88
AFP, Published on 01/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Donald Rumsfeld, the cocksure and unrepentant defense secretary who led the United States into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88.
Pandemics and political performance
Oped, Published on 01/07/2021
» The Covid-19 pandemic has created a laboratory for testing different governance systems in the face of a public-health crisis, ultimately revealing massive variance in country performance. For example, countries in East Asia -- China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, tended to do a better job of controlling the pandemic than did many countries in the Americas and Europe.
China certified malaria-free after 70-year fight
AFP, Published on 30/06/2021
» GENEVA - China was certified as malaria-free on Wednesday by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease.
Cambodia activists say conservation group targeted by govt
Reuters, Published on 30/06/2021
» The founder of a Cambodian conservation group that saw three of its activists jailed this month says the government is taking aim at them for their work exposing corruption and environmental abuse - an allegation the government denies.
Hong Kong security law creates 'human rights emergency': Amnesty
AFP, Published on 30/06/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's national security law has decimated freedoms and created a "human rights emergency", Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a year after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city.
Apichatpong's memory of the world
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/06/2021
» It begins with a bang. Maybe the Big Bang, a culmination of cosmic murmur and subterranean hum that explodes like a burst of revelation, a sonic release of the weight of all human pain. In Apichatpong Weerasethakul's new film Memoria, a woman wakes up one morning in Bogota jolted by a mysterious sound -- a metallic, visceral, bottom-of-the-well bang. The woman, orchid farm owner Jessica (played by Tilda Swinton), wanders the Colombian capital in a daze, haunted by the unshakable aural echo, then leaves the city and heads to the mountains, where the phantom of the bang shadows her.
Ironing out the many facets of gender recognition
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 30/06/2021
» Move Forward Party MP Tunyawaj Kamolwongwat will push for sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) draft legislation to ensure gender-responsive budgeting for LGBTI people after the current charter reform.
'Unstoppable storm': rights take back seat under Hong Kong security law
AFP, Published on 29/06/2021
» HONG KONG: China's national security law for Hong Kong has shaken the city's legal foundations in the year since it was imposed, lawyers say, with court decisions and sweeping new powers for prosecution fuelling concerns about rights and the rule of law.
Mexico's top court decriminalizes recreational marijuana use
AFP, Published on 29/06/2021
» MEXICO CITY: Mexico's Supreme Court on Monday decriminalized recreational marijuana use for adults, drawing a cautious welcome from activists who said users face a "legal vacuum" until lawmakers pass a stalled legalization bill.