(Asia Times) Australia’s New South Wales police have disproportionately targeted Aboriginal children under a repeat offender monitoring scheme, a report has said. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) looked into the cases of 429 children in 2016-18 under the Suspect Target Management Plan (STMP). It found that 72% of the children, aged nine to 17, were “possibly Aboriginal and Torres… Read more »
(The Atlantic) The US Justice Department announced indictments of four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for alleged involvement in the massive 2017 hack of the database of giant US credit rating agency Equifax. The Justice Department raised eyebrows on Monday when it unveiled charges against four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for hacking into the credit-reporting agency Equifax and stealing… Read more »
(Asia Times) The US may become the first country to pull its diplomats and expatriates out of Hong Kong after reports that staff at its consulate general can choose to return home if they feel the coronavirus in the city may affect them. The consulate stressed in a reply to media inquiries that the measure was merely a “precautionary one”… Read more »
(Asia Times) Trade of the Day: Stocks, futures tiptoe higher; US Treasuries and gold see strong demand. Quote of the Day: “These days we encounter an almost universal consensus that a persistent lack of inflation will allow global central banks to prop up carry trades across asset classes, including EM debt. But EM is not Europe or Japan. Loose policy… Read more »