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Under pressure as Thai activists call for change

Jack Taylor, AFP
Posted at Sep 28 09:18 AM

Anti-government protesters use water pressure to launch homemade projectiles during a demonstration in Bangkok on Monday. Read more »

Pelosi: China getting worse on suppression

Doina Chiacu and Richard Cowan, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 16 11:54 PM

'China is tightening. It's getting worse and worse in terms of democratic reform.' Read more »

Cops order Tiananmen vigil group to delete websites

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 16 06:25 PM

Organizers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil said they had been ordered by national security police to delete their online presence. Read more »

Tiananmen crackdown vigil leaders stand trial

Kyodo News
Posted at Sep 10 07:08 PM

Three leaders of a pro-democracy group in Hong Kong stood trial on Friday for charges of inciting subversion of state power under the national security law. Read more »

Thai activists push for PM to quit as confidence vote looms

Reuters
Posted at Sep 03 03:50 PM

The protests have gathered steam since late June as university students who sought Prayuth's removal last year return with broader support from other political groups and people angered by a worsening coronavirus situation. Read more »

Pegasus project: Hacking sa journalists at activists

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 26 02:05 PM

Kayang i-hack ng spyware na Pegasus ang gadget mo sa isang notification o text message lang. Ayon sa isang report, naabuso ang teknolohiyang ito dahil mga inosenteng activists, journalists, at politicians ang naging target ng hacking. Ano ang Pegasus? Sino ang nasa likod ng hacking? At paano mo poprotektahan ang sarili mo mula sa spyware? Read more »

Hong Kong to check old movies for national security breaches

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 24 06:37 PM

Hong Kong will scrutinize past films for national security breaches under a tough new censorship law. Read more »

Hope we’re not having more of the same

Edmund Tayao
Posted at Aug 19 02:20 AM

I hope we won’t be putting too much hope and expectations again on a candidate or candidates that things will be a lot better if they are elected next year. Read more »

4 Hong Kong students arrested for allegedly promoting terrorism

Kyodo News
Updated as of Aug 19 02:11 AM

Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested four University of Hong Kong students on suspicion of promoting terrorism. Read more »

'COA report questions Duque’s management of DOH'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 12 11:12 AM

The COA report on the DOH's deficiencies in managing billions in COVID-19 funds puts into question Secretary Duque’s leadership, a think-tank said. Read more »

Thais protest government handling of COVID-19 pandemic

Lillian Suwanrumpha, AFP
Updated as of Aug 10 11:16 PM

People clash with Thai police during a protest calling for the resignation of prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha over the government's COVID-19 response. Read more »

Hong Kong's largest union disbands, citing crackdown

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 10 06:46 PM

Hong Kong's largest union announced it decided to disband on Tuesday citing "huge pressure" as authorities stamp out the city's democracy movement. Read more »

China blasts US over 'safe haven' for Hongkongers

Danny Mok, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 09 01:24 PM

US memorandum ‘blatantly defames and attacks the law of China on safeguarding national security in Hong Kong’, foreign ministry says. Read more »

US to offer 'safe haven' to Hong Kong residents

Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Aug 05 08:17 PM

The United States on Thursday plans to offer a temporary "safe haven" to thousands of Hong Kong residents. Read more »

Museum commemorating 1989 Tiananmen victims reopens online

Reuters
Posted at Aug 04 07:20 PM

A museum dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square reopened online. Read more »

Over 100 charged with insulting king in one year of Thai protests

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 03 06:59 PM

More than 100 protesters have been charged under Thailand's royal insult laws since last July, when rallies across the kingdom began demanding reforms to the unassailable monarchy, a lawyer representing the activists and an AFP tally showed Tuesday.   Read more »

Hong Kong media outlet, broadcaster, artist all quit city

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 03 06:28 PM

Hong Kong online news outlet Initium announced it was relocating to Singapore on Tuesday citing fading press freedoms, the first local media to quit the financial hub as authorities crack down on dissent. Read more »

No funds for pandemic aid in 2021 budget if PH imposes hard lockdown: think tank

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 30 10:07 AM

The Philippine government may not be able to provide pandemic aid to the poor if it imposes anew a hard lockdown amid the presence of the virulent COVID-19 Delta variant, a think tank said Friday. Read more »

Tunisian democracy in crisis after president ousts government

Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall, Reuters
Posted at Jul 26 07:12 PM

TUNIS - Tunisia faced its worst crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze parliament with help from the army in a move denounced as a coup by the main parties including Islamists. Read more »

1 month since Apple Daily shut, concern over H.K. free press lingers

Caroline Tam, Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 25 07:59 AM

Saturday marked one month since Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily ceased operations after 26 years in circulation, with lingering concerns about the future of press freedom in the territory. Read more »