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NGO leaders and technical experts who helped secure western aid for official shift to clean energy are being locked up now that they are no longer neededLess than 12 months ago G7 countries agreed to provide billions of dollars to help Vietnam ditch co…
Read MoreHong’s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the countryA leading Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the country’s communis…
Read MoreState bill would address trauma by amending housing, labor and education codes to explicitly prohibit discrimination, leaders sayCalifornia could soon become the first state to ban discrimination on the basis of caste, propelling a growing civil rights…
Read MoreHuang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with ‘inciting subversion of state power’The trial of two prominent activists detained since 2021 has begun in secret in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, in a case that has att…
Read MoreAnam Abbas’s documentary records the preparations for and dangerous execution of a countrywide rally against patriarchal violenceChronicling the weeks leading up to – and the day of – the 2020 edition of the “aurat march”, a multi-city women’s demonstr…
Read MorePeter Lam Bui posted his video after a Vietnamese official visited the celebrity chef’s London steakhouseA Vietnam court has jailed a noodle seller who went viral for impersonating celebrity chef Salt Bae, after the restaurateur served a gold-leaf stea…
Read MoreIn today’s newsletter: Protests could mark the start of a violent showdown that threatens the country’s fragile political systemSign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.On Tuesday, the former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Kha…
Read MoreThenmozhi Soundararajan has spent her life battling for equity. Now California could pass a landmark law protecting itThenmozhi Soundararajan had one of her earliest encounters with India’s ancient caste ladder when she was 10, during a playdate at a f…
Read MoreSuggestion to abolish catch-all offence will be among thousands considered at Chinese Communist party summitChina should abolish the catch-all crime of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a political delegate has proposed before next week’s major…
Read MoreAdvocates of Huang Xueqin accuse authorities of ‘trying to exert mental pressure and physical torture’Advocates for a Chinese journalist and activist who has been held in detention without trial for almost 18 months have said she needs urgent medical …
Read MoreActivists have despaired for decades as Beijing has hardened its grip. Now they see a turning tideRose Tang was stunned when she saw videos last week of crowds in China chanting in Mandarin, “Give me liberty or give me death.” It was a phrase the Brook…
Read MoreIn today’s newsletter: A timeline of increasing dissent as Chinese citizens demand ‘food, not PCR tests’ and blame Xi Jinping’s government for restrictions they say have cost livesSign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. After …
Read MoreThe regime’s closure of her support and literacy centres for women and girls was crushing, but Jamila Afghani is looking for ways to build a brighter future for the Afghan women she left behind Jamila Afghani was settling into her new home in Kitchener…
Read MoreFormer student leader among 29 pro-democracy activists entering same plea on subversion charges after more than a year in jailJoshua Wong and a group of 28 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists charged under a controversial national security law have enter…
Read MoreHead of student union forced out as debate on monarchy intensifiesJust a few years ago, student activism and protests were a rarity at Chulalongkorn University – considered Thailand’s most elite and staunchly conservative campus. Yet Thailand’s oldest …
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