The award has put a spotlight on the struggle of journalists and activists fighting President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on press freedomThe news that journalist Maria Ressa has been awarded the Nobel peace prize has been greeted with joy by defenders o…
Flooding in China forces 120,000 to flee homes amid record rainfall
Floods in Shanxi province destroy homes, force suspension of mines and wash away railway bridges More than 120,000 people have been forced to leave their homes after severe flooding in China’s northern Shanxi province that has affected about 1.75 milli…
Evergrande faces fresh debt deadline as property market woes widen
Expectations are slim that the troubled Chinese developer will make $148m worth of payments due on Monday, as it wrestles with more than $300bn in liabilitiesFinancial markets were braced for more bad news about the shaky Chinese property market as str…
Taiwan national day: we won’t bow to China, says president
Tsai Ing-wen says China’s plans for Taiwan offer neither freedom nor democracy and the island will continue to build its defences Taiwan will continue to bolster its defences to ensure it is not forced to accept the path laid down by China, which offer…
In Rodrigo Duterte’s war on press freedom, Maria Ressa stands up for the truth | Rachel Obordo
As a fellow Filipino journalist, I was inspired by the news that the Rappler founder had won the Nobel peace prizeFor the first time, a Filipino person, Maria Ressa, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize – “a win for Filipinos, for journalists, and fo…
Netflix’s Squid Game owes its popularity to anxieties of modern life
It’s the first South Korean drama to top the US TV charts and its core message is ‘can I ever repay this debt?’Squid Game, a Netflix series made in Korea by Hwang Dong-hyuk, was released on 17 September and within 10 days was the platform’s highest ran…
Xi Jinping vows Taiwan’s ‘reunification’ with China will be fulfilled
Chinese president says island’s ‘independence separatism’ is a ‘danger to national rejuvenation’ following a week of tensionChina’s president, Xi Jinping, has vowed to realise “reunification” with Taiwan, without mentioning the use of force, after a we…
Hong Kong University orders removal of Tiananmen Square massacre statue
Pillar of Shame to be taken down amid China-imposed crackdown, with its Danish sculptor ‘shocked’ at plan to ‘desecrate’ memorialThe University of Hong Kong has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen S…
New Zealand opposition leader Judith Collins’ struggle for relevance
Routinely outshone in the polls by Jacinda Ardern, Collins now faces a challenge from a rival right-wing party“There are three ways in which opposition leaders end being opposition leaders,” the National party’s leader, Judith Collins, says: “one, they…
China orders coalmines to raise production to address power crunch
Record high prices and shortages of electricity have crippled industrial outputChinese officials have ordered more than 70 mines in Inner Mongolia to increase coal production by almost 100m tonnes, with the country battling its worst power crunch and c…