Link to article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/16/two-rohingya-camp-leaders-killed-in-bangladesh Two Rohingya camp leaders were surrounded by a mob and hacked to death on Saturday, October 15. The murders were blamed on an armed group within the Rohingya camp, called Arkan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). It is considered a terrorist group by Myanmar and Malaysia, and its main goal is to protect from the abuse of… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62760354 The Australian mining firm Arafura intends to begin mining in the desert of central Australia, in search of neodymium and praseodymium— valuable elements used in the production of strong magnets. These are rare earth elements essential to the electronic industry and are also used in a massive amount of products such as military weapons, renewable energy… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/asia/myanmar-japan-toru-kubota.html Toru Kubota, a Japanese documentary filmmaker and journalist, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by Myanmar’s ruling military junta. He is the fifth foreign journalist to be detained in Myanmar, fourth foreigner to be sentenced, and third to be held (preceded by Sean Turnell, Australian economic advisor to the Myanmar former leader who was… Read more »
China and Japan’s diplomatic relationship has come a long way since their initial establishment of peace in 1972. Polls show that as of fall 2021, 90 percent of the Japanese population possess a negative view of China. Ever since its 1996 attempted attack on Taiwan, China has been bulking up their military through extreme amounts of increased spending. This has… Read more »
China has been under fire for its purported abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic groups in Xinjiang (or the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region/XUAR) with the loose intent of “counterterrorism.” There have been reports of internment camps, forced labor, forced abortion, family separation, aggressive reprisals for speaking out, and many other human rights violations. The UN has been called on… Read more »
Drug trafficking of methamphetamines in East and Southeast Asia is at an all time high, having surpassed 1 billion confiscated tablets in 2021. Consumption rates have risen by 70 percent in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan as well, due to exports from key spots in Southeast Asia. Drugs have become cheaper and more accessible because of flawed… Read more »