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Vietnam on Monday punished two editors of a major newspaper which had earlier been fined for publishing what authorities said were false reports on toxic fish sauce. Vietnam is no stranger to toxic food. #Vietnam concerned about toxic chemicals in food https://t.co/DePSL2EwTb #foodchaintransparency pic.twitter.com/Cww8vyUvQp — John G. Keogh (@JGKeogh)...
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Terengganu is one of Malaysia’s most conservative states. Jawi, a local form of Arabic used to communicate the local Bahasa Malaysia language, can be found on street signs in the capital, Kuala Terengganu. In the past, it has elected the hardline Islamist party, PAS, to power. It is also experiencing...
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FAM investigates the brutal, coercive tactics used to extract conversions from suspects. The follow excerpts from iFeng (in Chinese), and the original report can be found here. In 1994, 21 year old Nie Shubin (聂树斌), was caught and charged with rape and murder. The following year, he was executed by the...
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(Phone Arena) Watt Laboratory is an organization under Huawei’s Central Research Institute. The company took part in the 57th Battery Symposium in Japan and made a curious announcement today. Watt Laboratory unveiled the first graphene-assisted Li-ion battery. Graphene is a carbon material with a thickness of one atom, in...
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(China Post) TAIPEI, Taiwan — 100,000 people gathered on Saturday in Taipei to rally against a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Wearing white shirts as instructed by the organizer Taiwan Family (下一代幸福), attendees showed up to demand that a potential amendment to the Civil Code regarding same-sex marriage be “left...
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(Taipei Times) – Former President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday held a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, in order to protest the World Chinese Economic Summit’s failure to acknowledge him as the former president of the Republic of China (ROC), Taiwan. At the...
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(The Guardian) – Donald Trump looked to have sparked a potentially damaging diplomatic row with China on Friday after speaking to Pro-Independence Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen on the telephone in a move experts said would anger Beijing. The call, first reported by the Taipei Times and later confirmed by...
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A Chinese Executive working at Huawei crashed his car into pedestrians and tuk tuk drivers in the early hours of the morning in Phnom Penh, but any reports of this incident has been scrubbed from Khmer Language News. Many believe that the Cambodian Government is Censoring the news to appease their benefactor,...
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He was introduced as Najib Razak’s successor when he gave a speech at the United Nations. He is bold, brash, and supposedly popular with the Malay grassroots, but presents himself as a far cry from the polished blueblood that is his (present) boss. Local Malaysian media outlets, as well...
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Beset by scandals such as allegations of embezzlement and gross violation of civil liberties, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, may find himself having to resort to playing the race card in order to maintain his party’s five decade long grip on power after his personal troubles with accusations...