Kathmandu is on edge, not because of “apps”, but because a generation raised on the promise of democracy and mobility has collided with an economy and political order that keep shutting every door, write Atul Chandra and Pramesh Pokharel.
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Responding to the mass protests in Indonesia and the state’s heavy-handed repression, more than 250 local and international organisations and individuals have signed on to the following demands on the Indonesian government, reports Susan Price.
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Rebecca Meckelburg looks at the growing discontent that led to mass protests across Indonesia.
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Indonesian security forces opened fire on a peaceful protest in Sorong, West Papua, killing one person and injuring several others, reports Susan Price.
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The Rohingya have endured repeated waves of violence, but the August 25, 2017, campaign by the military junta in Myanmar remains the most devastating, writes Noor Sadaque from Cox’s Bazar.
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In the second part of our interview, һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes speaks to author William Jefferies about the growing confrontation between the United States and China.
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William Jefferies is Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London and author of the recently published War and the World Economy: Trade, Tech and Military Conflicts in a De-globalising World. һƷ̽’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Jefferies about imperialism today and why the period of globalisation is coming to an end.
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There is widespread opposition in Aotearoa New Zealand to the opening of a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation office in the country’s capital, Pōneke/Wellington, reports Zara Lomas.
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һƷ̽’s&Բ;Isaac Nellist spoke to Amanda Shweeta Louis from the Socialist Party of Malaysia about the commercialisation of Malaysia’s education system, solidarity with Palestine and why young Malaysians are looking to socialism.
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The recent discovery of a mass grave in Sri Lanka has ignited a wave of protests by Tamils demanding an investigation, accompanied by calls for the government to fulfil its pledge to improve the treatment of Tamils. Chris Slee reports.
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The trial of three activists from Singaporean activist group Letters for Palestine entered its sixth and final day, reports Alex Salmon.
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Forty years after agents from France’s secret service bombed the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it was moored in Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand, award‑winning journalist David Robie has released a fully updated anniversary edition of his book Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, writes Ben Radford.