Some of the amendments to the Sedition Act of 1948 approved by Malaysia’s Parliament could further undermine freedom of expression. This is the verdict of media groups, opposition politicians, activists, and even the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights after the amendment bill was passed by the parliament on April 10, 2015. The government made […]
Citizen Lab, an advanced, human rights-based research center on Information and Communication Technology at the University of Toronto, has identified that the infrastructure of the man-in-the-middle DDoS attack on the Chinese open source platform hub GitHub is co-located with the Great Firewall. Citizen Lab terms this new technological innovation as “the Great Cannon”. The finding […]
India’s Ministry of External affairs yesterday announced the end of an evacuation effort which has rescued about 5,600 people from more than 40 countries from the conflict in Yemen. To avoid a no-fly zone over parts of Yemen, India transported people via the African state of Djibouti. This was achieved using ships of the Indian […]
A recent article in American newspaper USA Today took an unusual slant when reporting on a new Pew Research survey comparing Japanese and American attitudes about each other. USA Today’s main takeaway of the Pew survey? “Japanese have low opinion of Americans.” Pew Research’s own in-depth summary of the results of the poll is almost […]
Twitter and YouTube are blocked once again in Turkey as of today, April 6, following the mass circulation of photos of a hostage crisis that ended with the death of a government prosecutor. According to Hurriyet Daily News, authorities have also blocked 166 websites that posted the photos. Although Facebook was initially blocked for the […]
BANGKOK, 6 April 2015 (NNT) – Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has sent a letter expressing his profound condolences and sympathy to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak over the great loss of Najib Razak’s principal private secretary and a senior member of his party in the tragic helicopter crash on Saturday. Gen Tanasak Patimapragorn, Deputy […]
Same-sex unions are still illegal in China, and members of the Chinese LGBT community face the same intense parental pressure as their straight friends to get hitched and produce grandchildren. “In our culture, a person who doesn’t get married will be considered to be disobedient towards their parents,” says a gay man identified as John, […]
A Chinese court in Xinjiang province, in the city of Kashgar, recently sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble”, allegedly for wearing a beard. His wife was convicted of the same crime for wearing a veil and burqa that hid her face. A number of local governments in Xinjiang have prohibited […]
