Women are playing key roles in protests across South Asia. The backlash they face is often heavily gendered
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Nearly 1,000 endangered animals repatriated to Madagascar in anti-trafficking landmark
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How a Jesuit priest and Chinese literary icon Sanmao found love beyond romance
This is a love story, specifically a literary love story. Yet, for Jesuit priest Father Barry Martinson, it transcends romance. He speaks of sacrificial love, “which is something I really believe in”, which shaped his life alongside the closest friendship he has ever known.
Jailed ex-Malaysian PM Najib to appeal for house arrest
The former prime minister, already serving a six-year jail term for corruption related to the plunder of sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, faces several other cases linked to the financial scandal that led to his defeat in 2018 elections.
No, you are not on Indigenous land
The United States, like all nations, was created through territorial conquest. Most of its current territory was occupied or frequented by human beings before the US came; the US used force to either displace, subjugate, or kill all of those people. To the extent that land “ownership” existed under the previous inhabitants, the land of the US is stolen land.
Trump 2.0 and the next Asia pivot
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