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Uncertainty after Australia foreign students bill hits opposition
SYDNEY — Australia's debate over capping foreign student numbers is “not over” despite a controversial bill unexpectedly losing support, a top industry body says.The bill, part of efforts to slash overall migration to Australia, had been opposed by most universities who say it would damage the higher education sector and its global reputation.The government argued the legislation was needed to make the industry more sustainable and ease pressure on housing, and it was expected to easily pass with opposition support this week.However in a surprise eleventh-hour move, Australia's opposition leader said his coalition would vote against the bill as it didn't go far enough.Though some universities have expressed support at the bill's apparent demise, they also say it...
November 21, 2024

Uncertainty after Australia foreign students bill hits opposition

Police arrested Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn in Bangkok in April 2023
Death penalty for Thai woman accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide
BANGKOK — A woman in Thailand has been sentenced to death in the first of a string of cases in which she is accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide.The court in Bangkok found Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, guilty of putting poison in a wealthy friend's food and drink while they were on a trip last year.Relatives of the friend refused to accept she died of natural causes and an autopsy found traces of cyanide in her body. Police arrested Sararat and uncovered other similar deaths going back to 2015. One person she allegedly targeted survived.Police say Sararat, dubbed Am Cyanide by Thai media, had a gambling addiction and targeted friends she owed money to, then stole their jewellery and valuables.Sararat traveled with her friend Siriporn Khanwong, 32, to Ratchaburi province, west...
November 21, 2024

Death penalty for Thai woman accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide

Pollution has disrupted transport services in Delhi
Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again
NEW DELHI — Winter has come to Delhi and with it, a familiar sense of gloom. The sky here is grey and there is a thick, visible blanket of smog.If you stay outdoors for more than a few minutes, you can almost taste ash. You will feel breathless within minutes if you try to run or even walk at a brisk pace in the smog.Newspapers are back to using words like toxic, deadly and poisonous in their main headlines.Most schools have been shut and people have been advised to stay indoors – though those whose livelihoods depend on working outdoors can’t afford to do so.Delhi’s air quality score was somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 on Monday and Tuesday, according to different monitoring agencies. The acceptable limit is less than 100.These scores measure the levels of particulate matter –...
November 20, 2024

Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again

Jimmy Lai, Apple Daily founder, arrives at the Court of Final Appeal ahead a bail hearing on February 9, 2021
Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai testifies in controversial trial
SINGAPORE — Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong's most influential pro-democracy figures, is taking the stand on Wednesday in a national security trial that may see him sentenced to life imprisonment.The 76-year-old founder of the now-defunct Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily is accused of colluding with foreign forces by using his media platform to oppose the government.This is his first time testifying in court, even though he has undergone multiple trials since 2020 – all widely seen as politically motivated amid Beijing's tightening grip over the city.Lai said on Wednesday that Apple Daily represented Hong Kong's values, including "freedom [and the] pursuit of democracy."His hearing comes one day after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners – part of a group...
November 20, 2024

Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai testifies in controversial trial

Nila Ibrahimi, who fled Afghanistan, has won the International Children’s Peace Prize 2024 for her work to amplify the voices of women
Afghan girl who encouraged others to sing wins children’s peace prize
AMSTERDAM — A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children’s Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has recognized luminaries including climate activist Greta Thunberg and girls’ education campaigner Malala Yousafzai. Ibrahimi received the honor for her “courageous work to fight for the rights of girls” in Afghanistan, where women are being silenced by oppressive rules set by the Taliban, who seized power in 2021. Before the takeover, Ibrahimi gained an online following after using her voice to pressure Kabul education authorities to overturn a ban on schoolgirls singing in public. Ibrahimi recorded herself...
November 20, 2024

Afghan girl who encouraged others to sing wins children’s peace prize

The hīkoi swelled dramatically as participants, many draped in colours of the Māori flag, marched through Wellington
Thousands flock to New Zealand capital in huge Māori protests
WELLINGTON — More than 40,000 people have protested outside New Zealand’s parliament against a proposed bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding document between British colonizers and Māori people.Tuesday's demonstration marked the end of a nine-day hīkoi, or peaceful protest, that had made its way through the country.The hīkoi swelled to one of the biggest in the country's history, with many participants draped in colours of the Māori flag, as they marched through the capital Wellington.It easily dwarfed the 5,000-strong crowd that turned up for land rights in 1975, and double the size of another major hīkoi in 2004, which rallied for shore and sea ownership rights.Tuesday's march brought together activists and supporters who opposed the bill, which was...
November 19, 2024

Thousands flock to New Zealand capital in huge Māori protests

Children running away after a car crashed outside Yong'an primary school in China's Hunan province on Nov 19, 2024
Car crashes into crowd outside primary school in China
SINGAPORE — Multiple injuries are feared after a car was driven into a crowd of people outside a primary school in China's southern Hunan province.There are no details of casualties yet but state media said "several students and adults were injured and fell to the ground", and several people are in hospital.The driver of the vehicle -- identified as a white SUV -- was caught by parents and school security officers and handed over to police.This is the third attack on a crowd in China in a week, and it has fuelled concerns about public safety."About a dozen people were hit, some of them seriously, but luckily the ambulance came very quickly," Zhu, a parent of one of the children at the school, told the BBC.He said he heard the attack just as he was leaving the...
November 19, 2024

Car crashes into crowd outside primary school in China

People queue outside the West Kowloon court in Hong Kong on November 19, 2024
Hong Kong's leading democracy activists handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial
HONG KONG — More than 40 of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city’s already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on dissent. Among those handed sentences on Tuesday was Joshua Wong, a former student leader and poster child of the city’s once thriving pro-democracy movement, who shouted “I love Hong Kong” before he left the dock. All 45 defendants – including former high-profile lawmakers, activists, unionists and journalists – received prison sentences ranging from 50 months to 10 years in the largest single prosecution to date under a national security law imposed by Beijing four years ago. The total prison time...
November 19, 2024

Hong Kong's leading democracy activists handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial

Protesters run past a burning vehicle in Imphal on Saturday
Fresh ethnic clashes in India's Manipur after six bodies found
MUMBAI — India's north-eastern state of Manipur is on high alert after authorities recovered the bodies of six women and children, who reportedly belonged to the majority Meitei community.Meitei groups have alleged that they were kidnapped and murdered by armed groups of the minority Kuki group. The police, however, have not confirmed this.The news sparked a fresh wave of violent protests, prompting authorities to snap internet services in some parts of the state over the weekend.The two ethnic groups have been locked in a deadly ethnic conflict since last May, which has killed 200 people and displaced thousands.On Saturday, protesters ransacked and torched the houses and offices of at least a dozen lawmakers, mostly from the state's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Police...
November 18, 2024

Fresh ethnic clashes in India's Manipur after six bodies found

Senator Lidia Thorpe made her protest in Canberra's Great Hall of Parliament last month
Australian senator censured for heckling King Charles
SYDNEY — Australian lawmakers have voted to censure an Aboriginal senator who heckled King Charles during his visit to Canberra last month, to express their "profound disapproval" of her protest.Lidia Thorpe shouted "you are not my King" and "this is not your land" shortly after the King addressed the Great Hall of Parliament, in an effort to highlight the impacts of British colonisation.The Senate's censure, which passed 46-12, described Thorpe's actions as "disrespectful and disruptive" and said they should disqualify her from representing the chamber as a member of any delegation.A censure motion is politically symbolic but carries no constitutional or legal weight.Shortly after the Senate vote on Monday, Thorpe told reporters she had...
November 18, 2024

Australian senator censured for heckling King Charles

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