Sep 19, 2018

India: Triple talaq or instant divorce now a criminal offence | India News | Al Jazeera

India: Triple talaq or instant divorce now a criminal offence | India News | Al Jazeera: Muslim men in India who use instant divorce will face jail term up to three years, according to an executive order.

Nearly half in top 5 U.S. cities don’t speak English at home, record 67 million

Nearly half in top 5 U.S. cities don’t speak English at home, record 67 million: Nearly half of the residents in the nation’s five biggest cities do not speak English at home, choosing instead their native language, according to the latest Census Bureau data that details the impact of a decade of soft immigration policies.

Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ - The New York Times

Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ - The New York Times: Seven weeks before the midterm elections, the social network is setting up a central hub to root out disinformation and false news. We visited the operation.

Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says - The Washington Post

Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says - The Washington Post: An Arkansas-based firm predicts an explosion of spam calls, marking a leap from 3.7 percentage of total calls in 2017 to a projected 44.6 percentage by early 2019.

Trump says alleged assault by Kavanaugh is ‘very hard for me to imagine’ - The Washington Post

Trump says alleged assault by Kavanaugh is ‘very hard for me to imagine’ - The Washington Post: Speaking to reporters, the president praised his Supreme Court nominee but said his accuser deserves to be heard.

Governor of Indonesia's Papua seeks connection with PNG | RNZ News

Governor of Indonesia's Papua seeks connection with PNG | RNZ News: The Governor of Indonesia's Papua province says West Papuans should be able to connect more with people in neighbouring Papua New Guinea.

‘Rise: Ini Kalilah’ Captures The Spirit Of New Malaysia | Star2.com

‘Rise: Ini Kalilah’ Captures The Spirit Of New Malaysia | Star2.com: Opening in cinemas this Malaysia Day weekend is the new film ‘Rise: Ini Kalilah’ which focuses on six inter-related stories set in the days leading up to GE14.

Why We Need Less Elite Philanthropy and More Democracy | WIRED

Why We Need Less Elite Philanthropy and More Democracy | WIRED: Many people in Silicon Valley and San Francisco tech circles might not like Anand Giridharadas' vision for actually changing the world.

http://www.atimes.com/article/to-be-down-out-and-in-debt-in-cambodia/

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PM Taur Hirus Alfandega - TIMOR AGORA

PM Taur Hirus Alfandega - TIMOR AGORA: DILI - Primeiru Ministru (PM) Taur Matan Ruak hirus Alfandega, tanba la partisipa iha enkontru neebe nia parte preside. Ohin hau ...

AG Tommy Thomas talks about his first 100 days

AG Tommy Thomas talks about his first 100 days: INTERVIEW | In his first major interview since he was tapped as AG, Thomas addresses the difficulties and challenges he faces.

Australian universities rank above Cambridge and Oxford in employability outcomes | SBS Your Language

Australian universities rank above Cambridge and Oxford in employability outcomes | SBS Your Language: Revealed: Australia’s top universities based on employability outcomes

New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay - The New York Times

New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay - The New York Times: The editor, Ian Buruma, left as the magazine faced a backlash after publishing an essay by a Canadian radio personality who lost his job and reputation following sexual misconduct allegations.

After Tok Pa, Anifah Aman quits Umno | Malaysia | Malay Mail

After Tok Pa, Anifah Aman quits Umno | Malaysia | Malay Mail: KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 — Kimanis MP and former foreign minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman resigned from Umno today, less than 24 hours after fellow senior MP Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed left the opposition party. Anifah confirmed his resignation when contacted by Malay Mail, but said he will only...

Francisca Pattipilohy receives flowers – Histori Bersama

Francisca Pattipilohy receives flowers – Histori Bersama

Timor-Leste quer aprovar até dezembro moratória sobre importação de plástico - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Timor-Leste quer aprovar até dezembro moratória sobre importação de plástico - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Governo timorense define combate à pobreza como prioridade do OGE para 2019 - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Governo timorense define combate à pobreza como prioridade do OGE para 2019 - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Ex-Presidente Ramos-Horta apela a diálogo entre líderes para resolver impasse em Timor - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Ex-Presidente Ramos-Horta apela a diálogo entre líderes para resolver impasse em Timor - Notícias SAPO - SAPO Notícias

Timorese parliamentary seats in parliament ask for promulgation of the Budget

Timorese parliamentary seats in parliament ask for promulgation of the Budget

Sep 18, 2018

Singapore authorities have to explain blacklisting of Clare Rewcastle Brown – The Online Citizen

Singapore authorities have to explain blacklisting of Clare Rewcastle Brown – The Online Citizen: By Terry Xu Investigative reporter Clare Rewcastle Brown was briefly detained by immigration authorities in Singapore, according to Sarawak Report, the Malaysian news site which she founded. In a F…

Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Complicit In The Cover-Up of 1MDB Scandal To Help Malaysia Najib? - “Ugly Secret” With Detention Of British Journalist Clare - The Coverage

Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Complicit In The Cover-Up of 1MDB Scandal To Help Malaysia Najib? - “Ugly Secret” With Detention Of British Journalist Clare - The Coverage: Was Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong complicit in the cover-up of 1MDB scandal to help his buddy, former Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak? Most Singaporeans would think it’s incredibly insane to think that their leader would do such a despicable thing. After all, Singaporeans are proud of the perception that their country is the […]

More laws needed to tackle ageism in the workplace, Letters in Print News & Top Stories - The Straits Times

More laws needed to tackle ageism in the workplace, Letters in Print News & Top Stories - The Straits Times: I read with great concern the Ministry of Manpower's report on the current state of unemployment (Unemployment up as more look for work amid economic pickup; Sept 14).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Universal welfare and saying 'no' to tuition: Teo You Yenn goes On the Record about inequality - Channel NewsAsia

Universal welfare and saying 'no' to tuition: Teo You Yenn goes On the Record about inequality - Channel NewsAsia: SINGAPORE: It is not often that a book by an academic makes the  bestseller lists. But for the past four months, sociologist, Teo You Yenn’s This ...

Speaker Tan Chuan Jin: Opposition talk too much in Parliament – States Times Review

Speaker Tan Chuan Jin: Opposition talk too much in Parliament – States Times Review

New city project by Chinese firm raises hackles in Kayin | The Myanmar Times

New city project by Chinese firm raises hackles in Kayin | The Myanmar Times: The Kayin State Border Guard Force and Jilin Yatai Group of China launched the Shwe Kokko new city project in Myawady township in the first week of August over the objections of local residents.

The Philippines Genocide 3 million Filipinos Killed by the USA

The Philippines Genocide 3 million Filipinos Killed by the USA: The most horrific event in Philippines history. The Philippines Genocide is the genocide history forgot, you will find in history books the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902 but they fail to mention the genocide carried out by the United States of America on the people of the Philippines.

A letter to Anwar Ibrahim: What we need you to be | Free Malaysia Today

A letter to Anwar Ibrahim: What we need you to be | Free Malaysia Today: Malaysia needs a Bapa Perpaduan who can remove the religious and racial divides that have separated the people for far too long.

Leave no dark corner - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Leave no dark corner - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): Dandan Fan's every move will soon be watched and judged by her government, and she's happy about that. Social credit will unite Big Brother and big data to coerce more than a billion people.

Report: Rosmah may face up to 20 criminal charges soon

Report: Rosmah may face up to 20 criminal charges soon: This includes charges of money laundering, reports the New Straits Times.

Unstable areas because of inter-ethnic attacks have occurred တပ်ချုပ် | 7Day Daily - 7 days Daily

Unstable areas because of inter-ethnic attacks have occurred တပ်ချုပ် | 7Day Daily - 7 days Daily: တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕အခ်င္းခ်င္း တိုက္ခိုက္ မႈေၾကာင့္ နယ္ေျမမတည္ၿငိမ္မႈ မ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚၿပီး ျပည္သူမ်ား၏ အသက္အုိးအိမ္ စည္းစိမ္မ်ားကို ထိပါးလ်က္ရွိသျဖင့္ တပ္မေတာ္ က ရွင္းလင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေနရ ေၾကာင္း တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး မင္း ေအာင္လိႈင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။  တပ္မေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ ကေလာတပ္နယ္ရွိ အရာရွိ၊ စစ္သည္မ်ား၏ စက္တင္ ဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲတြင္