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The Supreme Court refused to pass interim orders to halt deportation of Rohingyas from India and called a writ petition alleging forcible deportation of 43 Rohingyas
Singapore’s ruling centre-right People’s Action Party (PAP) won the May 3 general election, gaining 65.5% — a swing of 4.3% from the 2020 result. PAP won 87 out of the 97 parliamentary seats.

While the tragic death of about 23 persons in Amritsar district of Punjab and the serious condition of several others has understandably evoked a lot of concern, this must be seen as only a partial although very tragic reflection of

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This is a conversation between Japanese artist Mio Okido and art historian Asato Ikeda, centered on Okido’s exhibition Remembered Images Imagined (Hi)stories—Japan, East Asia, and I at the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin. The dialogue examines Okido’s exploration

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South Korea to Establish $2.6B ‘Iron Dome’-style Defence System By , June 30, 2021
Gunfight Rages as India Intercepts Drones over Kashmir Army Base By , June 29, 2021
Forest Loss in Mountains of Southeast Asia Accelerates at ‘Shocking’ Pace By , June 29, 2021
China-India: Contours of a Conflict to Come By , June 29, 2021
Australia: Fighting to Save Our Islands from Climate Change By , June 29, 2021
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ICC One Step Closer to Probe of Philippines Murderous ‘War on Drugs’ By , June 29, 2021
Whistleblower and the Press Break the Code of Silence in an Australian Police State By , June 28, 2021
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International Criminal Court Closes in on Duterte By , June 25, 2021
Philippines President Threatens to Jail Citizens Who Refuse Vaccine By , June 24, 2021
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Tepid Beijing Rebuke on Taiwan Angers Wolf Warriors By , June 23, 2021
Taming the Seas: Empires of Fishing, Colonization and Ecological Collapse in the Western Pacific By , June 22, 2021
Slick Caught on Satellite Image Around Sunken Ship Not Fuel Oil, Sri Lanka Says By , June 21, 2021
The Jakarta Method: Mass Murder in the Service of Washington By , June 21, 2021
China’s Space Program Makes Its Mark By , June 21, 2021
Container Ship Fire Produces Ecological Catastrophe in Sri Lanka By , June 17, 2021
Biden’s China Policy Gets ASEAN Cold Shoulder By , June 17, 2021
Indonesia to Retire Coal-fired Power Plants While Also Adding More By , June 10, 2021
Huawei’s HarmonyOS Aims at US Tech Dominance By , June 10, 2021
Pakistan and Russia in Gas Cooperation By , June 10, 2021
Of Plagues and Rodents: Australia’s War Against Mice By , June 07, 2021
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India Consolidates Anti-China Front Despite Unequal Power Relationship in QUAD By , June 01, 2021
Narendra Modi’s Seven Years in Power, and What It Means for India and the Rest of the World By , June 01, 2021
Australia: Water Activists Win Against Adani By , June 01, 2021
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US Maritime Bullying Targets “Ally” India By , May 27, 2021
New Zealand Refuses to Accuse China of “Genocide” By , May 27, 2021
India: Vaccine Drive in Uttar Pradesh Goes Awry, Villagers Jump into River to Evade Jab By , May 26, 2021
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Will Pakistan Give US Post-Afghanistan Military Bases? By , May 26, 2021
How India Lost Its Way in Persian Gulf By , May 25, 2021
China and the February 1, 2021 Coup d’Etat in Burma: Beijing’s Geopolitical Nightmare By , May 25, 2021
India on the Brink of Sanitary Catastrophe By , May 24, 2021
Faith in the Magic of Capitalism Fueled India’s COVID Crisis By , May 24, 2021
‘Drastic Forest Development’: Vietnam to Plant 1 Billion Trees — but How? By , May 21, 2021
Philippines Officials: 24 Deaths after Sinovac and AstraZeneca Shots Are “Unrelated” By , May 21, 2021
Australia: Say No to War on China By , May 18, 2021
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China Blocks US Bases in Central Asia By , May 18, 2021
A Wider War Coming to Myanmar By , May 17, 2021
Elbowed and Hustled: Australia’s Yellow Peril Problem By , May 17, 2021
US, Japan, France Hold First Joint Drills in Japanese Territory with Eye on China By , May 14, 2021
China Eyes Strategic Airfield Deep in the Pacific By , May 11, 2021
Commemorating 164th Anniversary of India’s First War of Independence 1857 By , May 11, 2021
ASEAN Trying to Resolve the Situation in Myanmar By , May 11, 2021
Indonesian Law Enforcers Call for Financial Approach to Fight Illegal Logging By , May 10, 2021
Exposing Myanmar’s US-Backed Opposition By , May 10, 2021
Australia Must Stop Beating the Drums of War Against China By , May 07, 2021
India Will be Front-line State in Myanmar Civil War By , May 07, 2021
Seoul Court Delivers Shock ‘Comfort Women’ Verdict By , May 05, 2021
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From Five Eyes to Six? Japan’s Push to Join the West’s Intelligence Alliance By , May 04, 2021
Leak of Australian Commander’s China Comments Fuels Further Talk of War By , May 04, 2021
Australia Escalated the Hybrid War on BRI at America’s Behest By , May 04, 2021
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