Sep 16, 2018
Southern China’s Pearl River Delta shuts down as Typhoon Mangkhut kills at least two in Guangdong | South China Morning Post
Southern China’s Pearl River Delta shuts down as Typhoon Mangkhut kills at least two in Guangdong | South China Morning Post: Flights and trains halted, roads and businesses shut down and residents told to stay indoors as powerful storm sweeps through region
How Islamists stigmatise Indonesia’s transgender waria | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post
How Islamists stigmatise Indonesia’s transgender waria | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: The waria were respected in Indonesia’s Hindu-Buddhist period. Now, they find themselves reviled
Singapore and Malaysia: so near to each other, so far to go on gay rights | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post
Singapore and Malaysia: so near to each other, so far to go on gay rights | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: The LGBTI community on either side of the Johor Strait can only look on in envy as their counterparts in India celebrate the end of a colonial-era rule that criminalised gay sex
Three Indonesian men freed after being kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants and held in Philippine hideouts | South China Morning Post
Three Indonesian men freed after being kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants and held in Philippine hideouts | South China Morning Post: Hostages were taken to the gunmen’s jungle hideout in Sulu, a poor, predominantly Muslim province in the southern Philippines where Abu Sayyaf has had a presence since the late 1980s
Typhoon Mangkhut: About 100 feared dead in the Philippines | South China Morning Post
Typhoon Mangkhut: About 100 feared dead in the Philippines | South China Morning Post: More than 154,000 residents have been forced to flee their homes in the affected communities
Typhoon Mangkhut Slams Hong Kong and Southern China - The New York Times
Typhoon Mangkhut Slams Hong Kong and Southern China - The New York Times: The year’s most powerful storm, which left a deadly trail in the Philippines, scored a near-direct hit on Hong Kong and Macau before churning across China’s southern coast.
PM promises to restore Sabah, Sarawak as equal partners in Malaysia | Malaysia | Malay Mail
PM promises to restore Sabah, Sarawak as equal partners in Malaysia | Malaysia | Malay Mail: KOTA KINABALU, Sept 16 — In his first address to Sabahans since becoming prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Putrajaya is committed to returning the two east Malaysian states to their rightful status as one of four equal partners in the federation. Dr Mahathir acknowledged that when...
This Vietnamese singer tried to battle state censorship. Now she only performs there in secret. - The Washington Post
This Vietnamese singer tried to battle state censorship. Now she only performs there in secret. - The Washington Post: Do Nguyen Mai Khoi is touring the United States, including a stop in Washington, with songs such as “Re-Education Camp” and “Cuffed in Freedom.”
Land of lady boys? Thailand is not the LGBTI paradise it appears | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post
Land of lady boys? Thailand is not the LGBTI paradise it appears | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: Sexual minorities in the Land of Smiles face discrimination in education, work and their love lives, though attitudes – and the law – are beginning to change
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the world's richest sports team owner
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the world's richest sports team owner: Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is the owner of Premier League cricket team Mumbai Indians.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: What is it doing so far?
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: What is it doing so far?: Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced an audacious plan to use their Facebook fortune to try and end disease in their children's lifetime, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has ballooned to 250 people. An early focus is helping scientists from different research groups collaborate.
In Pakistan, Chinese money grapples with a Karachi-Lahore divide | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post
In Pakistan, Chinese money grapples with a Karachi-Lahore divide | This Week In Asia | South China Morning Post: A new administration in Islamabad is spooking Beijing with its calls for transparency over the US$62 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, but it may be a reflection of internal rivalries that have long been a problem
Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. - The Washington Post
Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. - The Washington Post: The little-known effort is premised on the idea that knives, like guns, are protected under the Second Amendment.
Chinese gambling boom looms over Cambodia's Kampot - BBC News
Chinese gambling boom looms over Cambodia's Kampot - BBC News: Chinese gambling is bringing cash to Kampot, but threatening the peace of this once sleepy Cambodian town.
California professor Christine Blasey Ford, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about sexual assault allegation - The Washington Post
California professor Christine Blasey Ford, writer of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about sexual assault allegation - The Washington Post: Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Kavanaugh attacked her more than three decades ago when they were each in high school, an allegation Kavanaugh has flatly denied.
Turkey's Erdogan to build more prisons as post-coup purge persists
Turkey's Erdogan to build more prisons as post-coup purge persists: A purge against tens of thousands of dissidents and alleged terrorists has filled Turkey's prisons to bursting. Now President Erdogan wants to build more jails.
Anwar family's credibility gap is troubling
Anwar family's credibility gap is troubling: COMMENT | The gaps among their professions and actual execution are widening.
Santiago gets frank about PH cabinet, warns of ‘Yes Prime Minister’ syndrome | Free Malaysia Today
Santiago gets frank about PH cabinet, warns of ‘Yes Prime Minister’ syndrome | Free Malaysia Today: The three-term DAP MP says a minister should toe the line, but there should not be an over-dependency on Dr Mahathir.
No cooperation with Umno now, Anwar says, but leaves future open
No cooperation with Umno now, Anwar says, but leaves future open: 'Future case, que sera, sera. But for now, it's certainly not in the equation,' states the PKR president-elect.
Respect Sabahan activists’ constitutional right to assemble peacefully - Aliran
Respect Sabahan activists’ constitutional right to assemble peacefully - Aliran: Hakam condemns the Sabahan police’s attempts to stop a peaceful assembly and the arrest of eight student activists in a “Pandang ke Sabah” rally today. Despite the new government’s promise for greater democratic freedoms, the authorities have maintained the same archaic approach to quell expressions of dissent with the full force of the law. In …
Pakatan Harapan responsible for arrest of 8 protesters in Sabah, says Suaram - Nation | The Star Online
Pakatan Harapan responsible for arrest of 8 protesters in Sabah, says Suaram - Nation | The Star Online: KUALA LUMPUR: Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) has condemned the arrest of eight youth and student activists in Kota Kinabalu and the unnecessary physical violence used to disperse a peaceful protest.
New Malaysia belongs to all, including those who disagree with us - Aliran
New Malaysia belongs to all, including those who disagree with us - Aliran: This Malaysia Day, let us embrace our plural society wholeheartedly, with a determination to make diversity our biggest asset, writes Zaid Kamaruddin. As we celebrate the first Malaysia Day under a different government from the past 54 years, let us remember amidst the euphoria that the “new Malaysia” belongs to all Malaysians, diverse not only …
In ‘New Malaysia’, cartoonist Zunar still wary of old curbs | Malaysia | Malay Mail
In ‘New Malaysia’, cartoonist Zunar still wary of old curbs | Malaysia | Malay Mail: PETALING JAYA, Sept 14 — Renowned political cartoonist Zunar said it remains to be seen if artistic freedom will thrive under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government. “Now, of course, everyone is free to criticise the previous government (Barisan Nasional) but the test is whether we can do the same...
Inequality and democracy in Indonesia – Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
Inequality and democracy in Indonesia – Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia: n the years leading to the downfall of President Suharto in 1998, there was growing public debate about the rise of a so-called kesenjangan sosial – or social gap – in the Indonesian media.
ICW: "Sekitar Rp1 triliun dana BPJS menguap karena dipotong kepala daerah' - BBC News Indonesia
ICW: "Sekitar Rp1 triliun dana BPJS menguap karena dipotong kepala daerah' - BBC News Indonesia: Penangkapan bupati Jombang menurut ICW menunjukkan bahwa bahwa dana kapitasi BPJS rentan disalahgunakan menjadi setoran ke kepala daerah, dan diselewengkan lebih-lebih untuk dana politik menjelang Pilkada.
MACC arrests two PKR members for bribery, six-day remand obtained - Nation | The Star Online
MACC arrests two PKR members for bribery, six-day remand obtained - Nation | The Star Online: ALOR SETAR: Two PKR members were arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) here on Saturday (Sept 15) for attempting to solicit a RM20,000 bribe.
Sep 15, 2018
SEZs in Vietnam: What’s in a Name? | The Diplomat
SEZs in Vietnam: What’s in a Name? | The Diplomat: Why are Special Economic Zones so attractive to Vietnam's government, despite proven shortcomings?
Malaysian police question those paid out of US$972 million deposited in Najib’s account | South China Morning Post
Malaysian police question those paid out of US$972 million deposited in Najib’s account | South China Morning Post: More than 50 people are said to have been given money by former PM and police say some of them may be prosecuted
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