Category: Asia Pacific
How China’s Long Arm Nabbed the Dissident Lawyer Lu Siwei
New York Times Beijing has become more aggressive in its pursuit of dissidents overseas, as highlighted by the arrest of a Chinese rights lawyer in Laos. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/world/asia/china-rights-lawyer-arrested-laos.html
Read MoreIn Japan, residents of Fukushima cautious after start of water release from wrecked nuclear plant
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Fish auction prices at a port in Fukushima fell amid uncertainty over consumers’ response to the release of the waste water into the ocean. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3232400/japan-residents-fukushima-cautious-after-start-water-release-wrecked-nuclear-plant?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreIndia tightens rice exports in threat to global food prices
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. The government levied a 20 per cent export tax on parboiled rice with immediate effect, which means India has now restricted overseas sales of all non-basmati varieties. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3232398/india-tightens-rice-exports-threat-global-food-prices?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreRaimondo Heads to China to Both Promote Trade, and Restrict It
New York Times The commerce secretary’s trip may be the clearest demonstration yet of the balancing act the Biden administration is trying to pull off in its relations with China. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/business/economy/raimondo-heads-to-china-to-both-promote-trade-and-restrict-it.html
Read MoreSouth Koreans push back against businesses asking for tips: ‘I hope this never settles’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. A Seoul bakery which put out a tip jar received backlash on social media, with many calling the custom ridiculous and illegal. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3232396/south-koreans-push-back-against-businesses-asking-tips-i-hope-never-settles?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreSouth Korea urged to ban sale of whale meat disguised as ‘lotto in the sea’ bycatch
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Despite a ban on whale poaching in South Korea in 1986, activists say whale meat is still consumed across the country and want loopholes to be plugged. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3232345/south-korea-urged-ban-sale-whale-meat-disguised-lotto-sea-bycatch?utm_source=rss_feed
Read More‘Return to paradise’, North Korea urged Japan’s Zainichi. Their reward? ‘So much pain and regret’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Lured by Pyongyang’s propaganda, nearly 100,000 mostly ethnic Koreans left Japan for North Korea in the mid-twentieth century. But instead of a better life, all that awaited them was poverty, starvation, death and despair.…
Read MoreSingapore presidential election: will ‘anti-PAP’ protest voters spoil front runner Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s party?
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. At a time of rising living costs, political scandals and ‘displeasure with the status quo’, analysts say this week’s presidential election may be an opportunity for Singaporeans to register displeasure with the ruling People’s…
Read MoreExpanded Brics could be successor to the non-aligned movement
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. The grouping is not just held together by postcolonial grievances, but as its economic heft has grown, it has become a voice of the aspirations of the Global South today. The expansion of the…
Read MoreUS accuses Russia, China of covering for North Korea over missile launches
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. ‘Since the beginning of 2022, this Council has failed to live up to its commitments because of China and Russia’s obstructionism,’ said US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Friday. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3232387/us-accuses-russia-china-covering-north-korea-over-missile-launches?utm_source=rss_feed
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