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Asia · LaosLaos has imposed price controls on 23 basic necessities such as pork, rice and natural gas to try to rein in inflation. Authorities aim to enforce through fines or even jail time. But the price limits are making it hard for some merchants to make money. Government figures showed the rate in Laos surged 41.3% in February.
Laos imposes price controls to curb inflation, but merchants say they’re losing money
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Asia · ChinaSu Yutong is a Chinese journalist who lives in exile in Germany. She says she's been harassed by strange men who thought she was a prostitute. She's been threatened with doctored nude photographs and forged receipts from adult stores. She fears her harassers could have links to the Chinese government.
For female journalists, covering China comes at a cost
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Asia · Myanmar (Burma)Some 12,000 security personnel left their posts to join the non-violent anti-junta movement. Most are sheltering along the country's border in remote areas administered by ethnic armies. More than two years since the Feb. 1, 2021 coup, some 3,200 military officers and 9,000 policemen have joined CDM.
Security personnel defectors face hardship in Myanmar’s remote border regions
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Antony Blinken · ChinaHuman rights are a “central interest” of the Biden administration’s foreign policy “but not the only one,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday as he launched the annual U.S. country reports on human rights, which slammed China and Myanmar for abuses. This year’s reports again denounce Beijing for “genocide and crimes against humanity” against ethnic Uyghurs in China, and accuse Myanmar of using “violence to brutalize civilians and c…
Blinken: Human rights are a ‘central interest’ but not the only one
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Xi Jinping · ChinaChinese leader Xi Jinping's ongoing visit to Russia forms part of a bid by Beijing to reshape the international community along authoritarian lines. Xi will have an "in-depth exchange of views" with Putin on major international and regional issues of mutual interest, China's foreign ministry said. The trip comes as Xi emerges victorious from a lengthy power struggle for sole control of the levers of party, military and state.
ANALYSIS: China under Xi is trying to forge a new and authoritarian world order
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Refugees · Myanmar (Burma)The UN refugee agency has acknowledged it transported Myanmar junta officials aboard unmarked UN boats to Bangladeshi refugee camps last week. The move has been criticized as risky to humanitarian workers and a serious breach of UN neutrality. The agency reiterated its previous assessment that conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state are not conducive to the sustainable return of Rohingya refugees.
UN refugee agency confirms involvement in junta boat transport
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Asia · SeoulMarines accused of killing around 70 civilians during a raid in February 1968. Case brought to court in Seoul by a Vietnamese woman who survived the massacre. Seoul's Central District Court last week rejected the government's argument that it was hard to prove South Korean troops were the perpetrators.
South Korean defense minister denies Vietnam War massacres
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US & Canada · WashingtonThe "news broadcasters" appear stunningly real, but they are AI-generated deepfakes in first-of-their-kind propaganda videos that a research report published on Tuesday (Feb 7) attributed to Chinese state-aligned actors.
Deepfake 'news anchors' in pro-China footage: Research
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