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February 26, 2024
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Amid Mardi Gras buzz, Indonesians in Australia rue diminishing LGBTQ rights back home
The Indonesian float at the parade, dubbed Selamat Datang – meaning “Welcome” in Indonesian – was founded by Australian Shawn Dern.
Plant-based meat’s success in Asia boils down to cost and outreach
The problem? According to new research conducted by the Good Growth Company, consumers in Southeast Asia – one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions – overwhelmingly say they intend to keep eating animal meat. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter want to increase their consumption over the coming year, not decrease it.
In the Philippines, Marcos Jnr ‘rebrands’ family name as he charts ‘progressive’ path
For the first time in 38 years, Filipinos will not officially celebrate the anniversary of the “People Power Revolution” on February 25 after it was removed as a public holiday, a move critics say is part of a larger strategy to distance the Philippines from the dark legacy of former president Ferdinand Marcos Snr.
Amazon to pay $1.9 million to migrant contract workers to settle claims of human rights abuses
Amazon will pay more than 700 migrant workers roughly $1.9 million to settle claims they suffered human rights abuses as a result of exploitative labor contracts in Saudi Arabia.
Rising internet shutdowns in India spark fears of authoritarianism before election
For the past 10 days, 20-year-old Kartika Singh, a medical student from Ambala, has been gripped by a mix of frustration and anxiety.
Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, 50 or so Chinese people packed into a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They came for a seminar about Qiu Jin, a Chinese feminist poet and revolutionary who was beheaded more than a century ago for conspiring to overthrow the Qing dynasty.