Facebook Posts Trigger More Arrests in Bangladesh, Worrying Netizens
By Rezwan Two people were arrested on May 14 and 15, for comments they had posted on Facebook. The arrests have sparked indignation and concern…
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Singapore Parliament Approves “Anti-fake News” Law, Raising Concerns About Free Speech
By Mong Palatino Singapore’s parliament approved the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) on May 8, 2019. Commonly known as the anti-fake news…
US and Soros Take Stab at Thai Elections
By Tony Cartalucci One such front – Human Rights Watch (HRW) – has recently released a report condemning upcoming elections as undermining the “right to…
Entrepreneurship Lifts Cambodia from the Clutches of Extreme Poverty in a Single Generation
By Jason Riddle Lim Pengkhun was born in 1980 near the Cambodian-Vietnamese border. The possibility he’d one day manage his own business would have been…
US-British Neo-Imperialism and its Modern Day “Missionaries”
By Tony Cartalucci The worst sort of deception is that perpetrated by those who pose as defending the most vulnerable when, in reality, they are…
Reddit Censors Bangladesh Protest As Govt Shuts Down Mobile Internet; Protesters Being Injured and Killed
By Aaron Kesel Bangladesh authorities have shut down mobile Internet across the country, officials and local media said on Sunday, ABS CBN News reported. Meanwhile,…
More Foreign Vaccine Scandals
By Catherine J. Frompovich Other foreign vaccine makers seem to have been caught in vaccine scandals. According to the Bangkok Post back in March of…
US Military Officially Ends 70-Year Presence in South Korea’s Capital City
By Jason Ditz The US military has formally ended a 70-year presence in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday, with the opening of a…
Malaysia’s Fake News Bill Enables Imprisonment Of Journalists, Follows Larger Trend
By Aaron Kesel Malaysia has approved a law against “fake news” under the Anti-Fake News 2018 bill that would allow for a prison time of up…
Fake News Storm Clouds Gather Over Southeast Asia
By Joseph Thomas From Cambodia to Thailand American and European media companies have launched a campaign of disinformation aimed at reversing Washington’s waning influence in…
Dengue Vaccine Pulled After It May Be Connected To The Deaths Of 14 Children
By Aaron Kesel The Philippines stated on Friday that the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia may be connected to three deaths in the country, according to a…
US Color Revolution Begins In Thailand As Proxy War With China Continues
By Tony Cartalucci The tentative first beginnings of a long-awaited US-backed color revolution has begun in Thailand, with a small protest of under 100 protesters…
Flaunting British Neo-Imperialism in Asia-Pacific
By Joseph Thomas For over a century, the British Empire exerted control over Asia-Pacific, outright colonizing India, Burma, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia while…
Pakistan and Afghanistan – Epicenters of Geopolitical Intrigue
By Chris Kanthan America’s foreign policy increasingly looks like the final scene from Scarface. After North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela, Myanmar, Syria, Hezbollah, Palestine and…