Category: Asia Pacific
China’s LGBTQ tourists flock to Thailand to be themselves, ‘forget all upsetting things’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Bangkok is only a five-hour flight from Beijing, and Thailand’s tourism authorities actively promote it as among the region’s most open destinations to LGBTQ people. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234091/chinas-lgbtq-tourists-flock-thailand-be-themselves-forget-all-upsetting-things?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreGlobal Impact: popular and approachable Tharman Shanmugaratnam wins landslide victory in Singapore’s presidential election
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. In this issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look back at the result of the recent Singapore presidential elections that followed a series of political scandals for the ruling People’s Action Party. https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3234068/global-impact-popular-and-approachable-tharman-shanmugaratnam-wins-landslide-victory-singapores?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreNew Zealand shocked at decapitated seals, penguin, shark, birds: ‘grotesque and barbaric’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. In one incident, a group of people filmed themselves riding a dead great white shark being towed behind a vehicle, before one of them wore the animal’s severed head as a hat. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3234086/new-zealand-shocked-decapitated-seals-penguin-shark-birds-grotesque-and-barbaric?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreMalaysia’s Anwar loses Syed Saddiq in protest against Ahmad Zahid walking free, ‘normalising corruption’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Discontinuing the four-year trial against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi ‘was the beginning of normalising corruption’, Muda President Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234077/malaysias-anwar-loses-syed-saddiq-protest-against-ahmad-zahid-walking-free-normalising-corruption?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreChina May Ban Clothes That Hurt People’s Feelings. People Are Outraged.
New York Times A proposal evokes memories of 1980s China, when opening up to the world set off a debate over flared pants and men with long hair, what the party called “weird attire.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/business/china-fashion-proposal-hurt-feelings.html
Read MoreTop US chip makers expected to meet in Vietnam as Biden’s visit stokes flames of US-China tech war
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Intel, GlobalFoundries, Google and Boeing and are all expected to meet in Hanoi, sources told Reuters. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3234078/top-us-chip-makers-expected-meet-vietnam-bidens-visit-stokes-flames-us-china-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreWhat went wrong with Hong Kong’s handling of floods from record black rainstorm? 5 weekend reads you may have missed
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. From Hong Kong’s handling of floods in record rainstorm to Huawei’s smartphone leap with its Mate 60 Pro, here are stories you may have missed over the weekend. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3234007/what-went-wrong-hong-kongs-handling-floods-record-black-rainstorm-5-weekend-reads-you-may-have?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreSingapore jails jaywalking pedestrian for knocking man off motorcycle in ‘freak accident’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Chinese national Hu Zhangwen dashed across a three-lane road to catch a bus, hitting a Malaysian motorcyclist with his bag in the process. His lawyer pleaded for mercy, calling the ‘freak accident’ unprecedented. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234073/singapore-jails-jaywalking-pedestrian-knocking-man-motorcycle-freak-accident?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreMyanmar’s ‘little regard’ for Asean on show as it turns to China, India, Russia for leverage
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Myanmar’s junta is attempting to shed its ‘outcast’ reputation by touting its ties with bigger, more powerful nations, even as the generals remain shut out of most Association of Southeast Asian Nations events. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3233938/myanmars-little-regard-asean-show-it-turns-china-india-russia-leverage?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreMonday Briefing: Searching Morocco’s Quake Zone
New York Times Also, the technology tech giants refused to release. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/briefing/morocco-quake-vietnam-us-viktor-bout.html
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