Category: Asia Pacific
Indonesian preacher charged with blasphemy, hate speech for allowing women to pray with men
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Conservative groups accuse Panji Gumilang’s school in West Java of following a version of Islam incompatible with the Koran. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3229770/indonesian-preacher-charged-blasphemy-hate-speech-allowing-women-pray-men?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreThailand’s election-winning Move Forward Party excluded from coalition
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Property tycoon Srettha Thavisin will be put forward as PM candidate by Pheu Thai party – seen as a vehicle for the Shinawatra political clan – which announced reformist MFP’s exclusion from the group…
Read MoreNew Zealand opposition party rejects criticism its road plan will lead to Chinese debt trap
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Some New Zealanders have accused Chris Luxon of ‘selling’ the country to foreign investors at a time of concerns over Chinese investments in the Pacific. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3229748/new-zealand-opposition-party-rejects-criticism-its-road-plan-will-lead-chinese-debt-trap?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreXi’s Abrupt Shake-Up of Nuclear Force’s Leaders Fans Speculation
New York Times The Chinese leader’s replacement of two commanders has fanned speculation about corruption or failings in the force that manages China’s nuclear missiles. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/asia/china-nuclear-shakeup.html
Read MoreIs Myanmar junta’s partial pardoning of Aung San Suu Kyi a ‘cynical ploy’ for goodwill?
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. The move comes as views against the junta start to harden, over its air wars, and as it steps up its campaign of terror against the population. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3229719/myanmar-juntas-partial-pardoning-aung-san-suu-kyi-cynical-ploy-goodwill?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreRead Your Way Through Hanoi
New York Times Hanoi, long a city of storytellers, has been devastated and reborn time and time again. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai guides readers through the literature that has played a part in that renewal. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/books/hanoi-vietnam-books.html
Read MoreAustralia invites China’s new foreign minister to Canberra, sees ‘no downside’ in Wang Yi’s return
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Australia’s embassy in Beijing has issued an invitation from Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong for her newly reappointed Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, to visit Canberra, according to sources close to the Australian government.…
Read MoreTyphoon Khanun churns through Japan’s Okinawa as it bears down on China
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Typhoon Khanun is forecast to move westwards through the East China Sea towards Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, after knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 households in Okinawa and killing at least one person.…
Read MoreSingapore tenants can feel ‘relief is in the air’ as rents show first signs of cooling
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. The growth in rental costs is expected to ease further as new units become available, as property agents say the city state’s luxury rental market is ‘saturated’ with ‘an abundance of high-end properties’. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3229685/singapore-tenants-can-feel-relief-air-rents-show-first-signs-cooling?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreSingapore’s PM Lee Hsien Loong on MPs’ affair: ‘I should have forced issue sooner’
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. PM Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged in parliament he should have acted earlier after learning about the affair between ex-speaker Tan Chuan-jin and MP Cheng Li Hui in 2020. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3229697/singapores-pm-lee-hsien-loong-mps-affair-i-should-have-forced-issue-sooner?utm_source=rss_feed
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