At least 21 killed, including 7 children, in fire at Gaza Strip block of flats
Ambulances rushed several injured people to local hospitals, and Israel, which together with Egypt maintains a blockade on Gaza, said…
WeChat’s wires are crossed in Australian politics
Author: Fan Yang, Deakin University Weixin was launched in January 2011 by Chinese tech giant Tencent. It is now the…
Gender on the agenda for Indonesia’s social protection policies
Author: Citra Handayani Nasruddin, Jakarta Inflation cuts across social and economic groups. But it leaves deeper wounds on those from…
Xi Jinping chides Canadian leader Justin Trudeau on G20 sidelines for ‘media leaks’ after meeting
Trudeau then said Canada believed in “free and open and frank dialogue” and would continue to look to work constructively…
Shrinking role of China’s public intellectuals will hold back country’s rise
Bao Tong, aide to the late reform-minded former Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang, holds a photo of Zhao as…
India’s data protection dilemma
Authors: Dharish David, SIM Global Education and B Rajeshwari, Niiti Consulting The Indian government’s Personal Data Protection Bill of 2019…
‘He wants a son’: heavily pregnant mother of 4 girls in China says husband is divorcing her for having a daughter again
A pregnant 25-year-old woman in China with four daughters alleges her husband beats her and wants a divorce, blaming her…
The Malaysian judiciary after the jailing of Najib
Author: Andrew Harding, NUS Malaysians heaved sighs of relief when former prime minister Najib Razak’s attempts to overturn his conviction…
Russian missiles hit Polish village, killing 2 in Nato-member country: US intelligence official
Polish media reported that two people died after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a…
Wagner denies hand in sledgehammer killing of Russian mercenary in Ukraine, blames US secret services
Wagner’s head Yevgeny Prigozhin, without offering evidence, said US intelligence services played a role in the execution of Yevgeny Nuzhin.