Essay: Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy
MAXIM KRUPSKIY, a visiting scholar at Tufts University’s Russia and Eurasia Program, writes – in an article first publiushed on The Conversation – about the danger of foreign agent laws…
StrangeSights: Cambodia’s “airplane house”; the world’s oldest dog; and, six more weeks of winter says Phil…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
WHO urges “immediate action” after cough syrup deaths
London, UKReuters The World Health Organization has called for “immediate and concerted action” to protect children from contaminated medicines after a spate of child deaths linked to cough syrups last year. In 2022, more than 300 children – mainly aged under five – in Gambia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan died of acute kidney injury, in deaths […]
“Smoke everywhere”: survivors of Cambodia casino blaze recount chaotic scenes
Aranyaprathet, Thailand Reuters When Nunthida Kongreung heard a huge fire had broken out at a Cambodian border town casino-hotel, she started calling her parents who were on vacation there, but nobody answered. When finally someone called back, it was a rescue worker who had found their bodies, slumped against each other in their hotel room […]
Updated: Cambodian casino fire kills 19, dozens more feared dead
Updated: 7:25am, 30th December, 2022 (AEST)Poipet, CambodiaReuters At least 19 people, many of them Thais, were killed and up to 30 were missing after a fire tore through a casino-hotel complex in a Cambodian town on the Thai border, officials said on Thursday. About 400 employees and patrons were in the Grand Diamond City casino […]
Cyber crime: Asian tech workers held captive in scam factories
ANURADHA NAGARAJ and NANCHANOK WONGSAMUTH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how tech-savvy Asians are being lured with fake job adverts and then forced to defraud strangers through crypto and romance scams…
StrangeSights: ‘Boramy’ the stingray sets a record; a KFC landmark up for sale; and baby-jumping in Spain…
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
“Mission impossible”: UN in Cambodia showed early limit of nation building
KATE LAMB, of Reuters, reports – on the 30th anniversary of the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Cambodia, on the successes – and failures – of that mission…
Cambodia: Internet gateway raises fears of China-style surveillance
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on critics claims that, when implemented, Cambodia’s National Internet Gateway will hit privacy and hamper the work of human rights defenders amid a crackdown on dissent…
Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19
Stung Treng, CambodiaReuters Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago. Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in […]