The supply of essential goods in Indonesia’s restive Papua region has been disrupted in recent weeks as a regional airline halted nearly 70% of its flights after one of its pilots was taken hostage by separatist rebels last month.
When Chinese authorities began the “strike hard” campaign in Xinjiang in 2014, they imposed severe penalties on Uyghurs, arrested them arbitrarily, and began a propaganda drive against the group’s ethnic customs and religious faith under the guise of promoting modernity.
With solar-powered, portable cinema, a South African organisation is providing youth in impoverished African nations with access to films.
The country’s economy is beginning to feel the effects of a year of international sanctions against Russia and the beginning of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, though the impact has not been as fast and effective as Western powers had hoped.
Former Sen. Leila de Lima has appeared in a Manila court again to press her petition to dismiss the government’s case against her for lack of evidence, days after marking six years in jail on what she calls trumped-up charges