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Businesswoman Truong My Lan was sentenced to life in prison yesterday in relation to a multi-billion-dollar fraud for which she already faces the death penalty, Vietnamese media reported. In a hearing, judges at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court found the 68-year-old guilty of fraud, money laundering, and cross-border currency trafficking, VnExpress reported. As […]
Nearly four years since the military seized power in Myanmar, plunging the country into political chaos, it has among the most tightly restricted digital spaces in the world, according to a new report released by Freedom House. The Freedom on the Net report, released yesterday, found that global internet freedom “declined for the 14th consecutive […]
In 2018, a group of Thai academics and activists created Future Forward, a progressive-leaning party that favored royal and political reform. It was led by Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, a young, good-looking man from the business world who was eloquent, cosmopolitan, and social media savvy. At the 2019 elections, Future Forward finished in third place. A year […]
Indonesia’s government has asked Google and Apple to block the Chinese e-commerce firm Temu from their local app stores, fearful of the economic impacts of its consumer-to-factory model, Reuters reported on Friday. Budi Arie Setiadi, the minister of communication and information technology, told the news agency that Jakarta feared that the future of the country’s […]
The image was meant to send a stark message: criticise Hun Sen and you will be punished, even if you’re not in Cambodia. Nuon Toeun appears front and centre in the photograph released by Cambodia authorities, handcuffed and flanked by armed guards outside a Phnom Penh prison. Her crime? Making a social media post critical […]