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[Link] Advice on How to Use Telegram Safely

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Russian police have started stopping people in the street and scrolling through messages stored on their phone, according to a video uploaded to social media.

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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.

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[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well

Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com

The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.

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[Link] The World’s Longest Ruling Prime Minister Has Backed His Son to Take Over

Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com

Addressing the country he has ruled for 36 years, marking the prestigious occasion of the inauguration of a $300 million sewage treatment facility, Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen confirmed that he will back his oldest son Hun Manet to succeed him.

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[Link] Why Farmers Are Still Unhappy Despite Modi Withdrawing Controversial Farm Laws

Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com

In a surprise televised address last week, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi apologised to farmers and announced that the controversial farm laws they had been protesting for a year would be withdrawn.

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[Link] Why Are Presidential Candidates in This Country Getting Tested for Cocaine?

Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com

No one asked them to do it, it probably shouldn’t have been necessary either, but politicians running for president and vice president in the Philippines have clambered over one another this week to take drug tests.

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[Link] Alleged mini meth lab and firearms discovered in PNG hotel, but Australian manager won't face drug charges

Read: 25/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Papua New Guinea police say outdated drug laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.

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[Link] India Has Millions of Crypto Investors. A Proposed Ban Has Them Petrified.

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

In a move that has led to panic selling among local crypto investors, the Indian parliament announced on Nov. 23 that it is deliberating a bill that seeks to “prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India” to pave the way for a single official digital currency to be issued by the government.

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[Link] Indian police charge local Amazon executives over marijuana trade

Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men with 20 kilograms of marijuana on November 14 and found they were using the Amazon India website to order and further smuggle the substance in the guise of stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, to other Indian states.

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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market

Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.

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[Link] Al Jazeera bureau chief arrested in Sudan amid deadly anti-coup protests

Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Sudanese security forces have raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief and arrested him, the news outlet has said, a day after street protests across Sudan against a military takeover.

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[Link] Myanmar military says it will release 5,600 anti-coup prisoners

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Myanmar’s military has announced plans to release more than 5,000 prisoners, days after the junta chief was blocked from attending an upcoming regional summit over his failure to commit to de-escalating the country’s crisis.

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[Link] The Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on protest shows it will never serve its own people

Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

On 24 June, Nizar Banat, a longtime activist and outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), was reportedly arrested and beaten outside his cousin’s home in Hebron by the authority’s security forces – he died in custody shortly after.

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