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• We used to joke about Hong Kong’s terror laws, but now my friends and family have gone silent | Alan Lau

  02-12-2024 07:00
  
  The jailing of pro-democracy activists, omnipresent surveillance and a distrust of the police have driven people into a fearful silenceGrowing up, I had always dreamed of becoming a police officer like my uncle. In my childhood in the 1980s and 90s, the police had a positive and brave image. I remember when I was in first or second grade, struggling with English, my uncle would tutor me. After our lessons, I would stay at his house to play. Next to his bed was a punching bag, and he would teach
  
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• Neon cities, cyber nightmares and yum cha: Cao Fei, the visionary artist charting China’s past and future

  02-12-2024 15:00
  
  For her first major solo show in Australia, the Chinese artist has turned the Art Gallery of New South Wales into a bustling cityscapeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei was negotiating her solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ modern art wing, Naala Badu, she was adamant it would not be a traditional “low-lit in a white square box” endeavour.The Guangzhou-born artist, who has strong ties to Sydney (a sister city
  
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• Remembering Every Night review – drifting drama follows three Tokyo women living their lives

  02-12-2024 14:00
  Yui Kiyohara’s film of long shots and silences could be deeply boring or oddly fascinating depending on your point of viewJapanese director Yui Kiyohara is clearly a believer in time, not speed, and situation over story. For nearly two hours, with virtually no plot to speak of, her slow, drifting drama follows three women on a spring day in a suburb near Tokyo. It’s a film of long shots and long silences. The mood is difficult to pin down; challenging arthouse that tiptoes close to q
  
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• Invisible Nation review – insightful primer for Taiwan’s complex history

  02-12-2024 12:00
  
  Documentary provides a useful introduction to the country, even if the geopolitics at times are a little simplisticProducer-director Vanessa Hope has worked on a number of films about China and its neighbouring nations, and this new one focuses on Taiwan, which is increasingly in the news as anxieties mount over a possible invasion by the People’s Republic across the Taiwan Strait. As a work of journalistic explication for interested but underinformed western viewers, it’s a bit all
  
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• Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

  02-12-2024 11:33
  
  Group of 85 countries and blocs press for ambition in plastic waste treaty after no agreement was reached in BusanBinding global targets to cut plastic production must be at the centre of any continuing negotiations to secure the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic waste, a group of 85 countries has said.Talks in Busan, South Korea, attempting to secure agreement between more than 200 countries on the details of a plastic pollution treaty ended in failure over the weekend. Continue read
  
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• US hits China’s chip industry with new export controls

  02-12-2024 11:00
  
  Parting measures by Biden administration aim to slow Beijing’s development of AI with military applications
  
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• Fast Retailing shares fall over fears for Uniqlo stores in China

  02-12-2024 09:26
  
  Fashion retailer is concerned founder’s remarks on Xinjiang cotton could trigger boycott and hit more than 1,000 outlets
  
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• China’s benchmark bond yields dip below 2% in 22-year low

  02-12-2024 09:02
  
  Smaller lenders pile into 10-year debt as they seek secure assets
  
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• The coming clash between Trump and Wall Street

  02-12-2024 07:30
  
  A rebalanced global economy would be welcome, but not for stocks
  
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• Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs

  02-12-2024 06:00
  
  And the US consumer market is now the world’s richest chip
  
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• Indian steelmaker JSW to launch own EV brand

  02-12-2024 06:00
  
  Company already has joint venture with China’s SAIC in world’s third-largest car market
  
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• Indian steelmaker JSW to launch its own EV brand

  02-12-2024 06:00
  
  Company already has joint venture with China’s SAIC in world’s third-largest car market
  
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• Chinese exporters front-load shipments in bid to dodge Trump tariffs

  02-12-2024 06:00
  
  Sellers from China, Canada and Mexico rush to get goods into the US before levies rise
  
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• Bear snared after three day supermarket standoff with Japan police

  02-12-2024 05:27
  
  Authorities in Akita prefecture had struggled to locate the animal, which attacked a man and has eaten large quantities of meat A bear that attacked a supermarket employee in northern Japan at the weekend before apparently holing up inside for three days has been exterminated after being found in a trap local authorities had laid near the store’s entrance.A 47-year-old man was taken to hospital suffering from facial and other injuries after the attack in the northern prefecture of Akita on
  
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• Top UN court to begin hearings on landmark climate change case

  02-12-2024 04:58
  
  ICJ to hear submissions from more than 100 groups in Pacific-led campaign to provide an advisory opinion on states’ obligations for climate harmThe International Court of Justice (ICJ) is due to begin hearings in a landmark climate change case on Monday, examining what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact.After years of lobbying by island nations, the UN General Assembly asked the ICJ last year for
  
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• New Zealand: the fight to protect Māori rights – podcast

  02-12-2024 04:00
  
  In what could be the biggest protest march in New Zealand’s history, 42,000 people took to the roads over fears Māori rights are being dismantled. Eva Corlett reportsIt started at the northern tip of the North Island, gathering momentum as it moved its way down the country. By the time the march – or hikoi – reached its conclusion nine days later outside parliament in Wellington it was thought to be one of the biggest New Zealand has ever seen, with 42,000 people taking pa
  
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• Taiwan president's Hawaii trip draws Chinese anger

  01-12-2024 14:16 via bbc.com
  
  Lai Ching-te's trip to the US state is being billed as a stopover, but has been condemned by Beijing.
  
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• Be careful with drinks while travelling, says mother of British lawyer who died in Laos

  01-12-2024 12:44
  
  Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists to die in a suspected methanol poisoning at Vang Vieng hostelThe mother of a British lawyer who died after being served a drink that was allegedly spiked with methanol has said if it can happen to her daughter it can happen to anyone.Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of six tourists killed in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng after an alleged mass poisoning. She was taken in for surgery just as her mother, Sue, 61, arrived at the h
  
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• Feminist hit movie Her Story touted as China’s answer to Barbie

  01-12-2024 08:27
  
  Directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, the film is the latest to be centred around female experiences and prove a box office success in ChinaThe recent box office success of Her Story, a Chinese comedy directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, has led commentators to dub the movie China’s answer to Barbie.The second feature film by Chinese director Shao Yihui, Her Story revolves around a newly unemployed single mother with a daughter and their young female neighbour, as th
  
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• Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China

  01-12-2024 06:25
  
  Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island – prompts Beijing’s protestsThe Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pacific tour after declaring his democratically governed island a key force for promoting global peace and stability.The trip has sparked fury from China, which views Taiwan as its own territory and opposes any foreign interact
  
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• Malaysia and Thailand flooding kills at least 12

  01-12-2024 03:27 via bbc.com
  
  There are worries in Malaysia and neighbouring Thailand that disastrous flooding could get worse as more rain comes.
  
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• Inside the ancient Indian ritual where humans become gods

  01-12-2024 02:32 via bbc.com
  
  Theyyam is an ancient folk ritual combining theatre, mime, and worship, predating Hinduism.
  
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• Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory

  01-12-2024 00:11 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC speaks to Hongkongers whose hopes for a freer city have withered.
  
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• ‘Time for compassion to prevail’: could the remaining Bali Nine members finally be coming home?

  30-11-2024 20:00
  
  The new Indonesian president – who came to office with a questionable human rights record – has emerged as an unlikely champion for a prisoner swap dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn the dark of the early morning of 29 April 2015, two members of Australia’s so-called Bali Nine were each tied to a stake in a floodlit field on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan.Andrew Chan and Myuran S
  
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• Gautam Adani says ‘every attack makes us stronger’ as he faces US charges

  30-11-2024 19:26
  
  First remarks by Indian billionaire after indictment by federal prosecutors
  
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• On the crest of South Korea’s tourism wave

  30-11-2024 06:00
  
  From kimchi to K-pop and ‘Squid Game’, the country’s cultural exports are drawing a surge of visitors
  
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• Ukraine war briefing: Russia says military ties with North Korea ‘actively expanding’

  30-11-2024 05:20
  
  Russian defence minister says on visit that cooperation between the countries growing ‘in all areas’ while Kim Jong-un vows North will ‘invariably support’ Moscow’s war. What we know on day 1,011See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...
  
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• The specialty coffee wave sweeping small-town India

  30-11-2024 02:58 via bbc.com
  
  Once restricted to only big cities, high-end specialty coffee chains are finding new customers across India.
  
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• Bushra Bibi led a protest to free Imran Khan - what happened next is a mystery

  30-11-2024 01:38 via bbc.com
  
  Imran Khan's third wife guided protesters to the heart of the capital - and then disappeared.
  
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• Asia Pacific Triennial 11: an enormous explosion of colour and reassuring optimism

  30-11-2024 00:00
  
  Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  With more than 500 art works, the 2024 APT touches on environmental and political crises, but opts to focus on care, community and the cosmosGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA lot has happened since the last Asia Pacific Triennial in 2021, when it opened, quietly, during Covid border lockdowns in Queensland. Besides a global pandemic, Trump won a second term, two major wars have erupted, and climate change has marched grimly on
  
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