EastAsia
Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
Global Voices
The Democracy Movement Strike Committee-Dawei in Tanintharyi Region’s Long Lone Township organized a protest against the Myanmar junta by celebrating the 79th birthday of detained Myanmar leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo from the X post of The Irrawaddy, a content partner of Global Voices. “Flower Strikes,” community protests, and solidarity actions were held on June 19 across Myanmar to push for the release of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and over 20,000 political prisoners. Suu Kyi celebrated her 79th birthday under the custody of the military junta which grabbed power in Febru...
Global Voices
Japan youth international striker Rento Takaoka is set to join newly-promoted Premier League side Southampton after the 17-year old signed a pre-contract deal on Wednesday. Takaoka broke into the scenes during the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia, where he led Japan to the round of 16 with his four goals, all of them coming off the bench, including two crucial group stage goals against Senegal that squeezed the Young Samurai Blue into the knockouts. A student of the Nissho Gakuen High School in Miyazaki, Takaoka's exploits in the U-17 World Cup attracted global attention and it was Southa...
Football Tribe Asia
Women leaders and experts interviewed in this article: Kesirin Tunkeaw (top right), Wongakuea Bunson (bottom right), Srisopha Kotkhamlue (top left), Jutatip Sirikhan (middle), and Professor Dararat Khampeng (bottom left). Photo from Prachatai, a content partner of Global Voices. This article by Kamonchanok Rueankham was originally published by Prachatai, an independent news site in Thailand. An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a partner content-sharing agreement. According to a report by UN Women, as of January 2023, Thai women held only 20.4 percent of elected seats ...
Global Voices
Press Conference of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Swiss Peace Summit. Screenshot from UATV's YouTube Channel. Fair Use. The Ukraine Peace Summit, hosted by Switzerland between June 15 and 16, concluded with a joint declaration calling for Ukraine's territorial integrity as the basis of a peace deal. Though 78 countries signed the declaration, Russia was uninvited ahead of the summit, China and many African countries were absent, Brazil, India and South Africa from the BRICS alliance, and a few other countries, including Indonesia, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, refused to sign. They ...
Global Voices
Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), photo used with permission Taiwan and Poland are distant not just geographically but also culturally, yet they share a long history of bilateral cultural relations that is little known outside of the circle of researchers and experts on the subject. One of them is Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), a Taiwanese literary translator of Polish literature, who is also a researcher, poet, and writer and is the first Taiwanese to have been awarded the Polish Cultural Merit Medal by the Polish Ministry of Culture. She recently released a new non-fiction book “世界之鑰” (“The Keys of the...
Global Voices
Hong Kong government file image via HKFP. Less than two weeks after a Hong Kong High Court convicted 14 pro-democracy politicians of “conspiracy to commit subversion” in the city’s landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy advocates, three overseas judges of the Court of Final Appeal handed in their resignations. As a former British colony, Hong Kong continued adopting the Common Law system after its handover to China in 1997. The appointment of non-permanent judges (NPJs) from other Common Law jurisdictions is a mechanism to ensure the independence of the city’s judiciary und...
Global Voices
Wednesday saw the second round of the 2024 Emperor's Cup being played out, with clubs from the J.League 1 and J.League 2 joining the fray in Japan's annually-contested domestic cup competition. And already there were several shock results - J1 surprise packages and current league leaders Machida Zelvia and last season's 6th placed finishers Nagoya Grampus were knocked out by university teams from the University of Tsukuba and Japan Soccer College respectively, while several other favorites were made to work hard for their third round tickets. All 20 J2 teams and 19 out of the 20 J1 contestants...
Football Tribe Asia
Malaysia overturned a deficit to secure a 3-1 victory against Taiwan in their final Group D match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying second round on Tuesday at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium. Despite this win, Malaysia's dreams of reaching their very first World Cup came to a screeching halt thanks to their inferior goal difference over Group D runners-up Kyrgyzstan, with the Central Asians playing out a stalemate with group winners Oman in their final match. Kim Pan-gon's side came into the match needing to score at least seven against a Taiwan side already eliminated from World Cup cont...
Football Tribe Asia
Japan concluded their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying second round with an impeccable record, overwhelming Syria 5-0 at the EDION Peace Wing in Hiroshima on Tuesday, courtesy of three rapid first-half goals that ensured the Samurai Blue would finish the round with six wins out of six. Ayase Ueda initiated the scoring spree in the 13th minute, followed by Ritsu Doan six minutes later. A Thaer Krouma own goal in the 21st minute put Japan in a commanding position in the encounter, a match that Syria had to win if they stand a chance to qualify into both the next round of World Cup qualifiers as we...
Football Tribe Asia
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら