Just Released: This (<2 hour) online course on Basic Psychosocial Support (in English, Sinhala & Tamil) may be useful for people trying to support each other in the #SriLankaCrisis. bit.ly/spdt-english bit.ly/spdt-sinhala bit.ly/spdt-tamil MHPSS Network The Asia Foundation

Plants at a Thai cannabis farm, ready to go to customers. Big day today for those who have long campaigned for a change in the law.

"Cowboys for Trump" founder vows to defy court order to certify election results in New Mexico, amid vote certification chaos washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Who are the two men at the heart of Sri Lanka’s political crisis? The Associated Press’s ⁦Krutika Pathi⁩ has profiles on both. apnews.com/article/deda9e…

⁦Ever heard of convict leasing? It was a new type of slavery where private companies made fortunes off mostly Black prisoners. robin mcdowell⁩ and I explore this dark history. Thanks ⁦Cynthia Rodriguez⁩, ⁦Michael Montgomery⁩ and many Reveal folks!! apnews.com/article/ap-inv…

Employee mental health? More than a century ago, a manufacturing millionaire believed in it deeply, and spent widely to promote it among his thousands of workers in upstate New York. He also hated unions. A great piece from Radio Diaries radiodiaries.org/the-square-dea…

【胡锦涛"被架离场"逐格看】 【习近平、李克强、栗战书等人反应可堪回味】 外媒在公开拍摄阶段，捕捉了主席台上的众生相: 习近平冷淡对待; 李克强目瞪口呆; 栗战书抹汗; 王沪宁控制场面。

An amazing collection of #srilanka 2009 war photographs taken by Amarathaas - mulliviakkal survivor & being launched today in London. Can bookshops in #lka sell this?

A rare protest in Lhasa against a harsh Covid-19 lockdown. Sources told RFA that Tibetan protesters warned Chinese officials against “setting off a fire” if Covid restrictions are not lifted.

Sunday morning visual meditation

Our Research and Policy Advisors Anouk Wear 華穆清 and Megan Khoo have published a Radio Free Asia commentary on today's China UPR and the achievements of human rights advocates "China tried, but failed, to prevent UN scrutiny of its human rights violations" rfa.org/english/commen…

As many of his colleagues dead, arrested or in hiding, one of the best Myanmar photojournalists focuses on recording his country’s brutal visual history. rfa.org/english/news/s… #RFA #Myanmar #NUG #KNDF #FBR

This is such an important case. Great to see UN in Sri Lanka giving it attention - hopefully foreign missions in #SriLanka and international organisations will follow suit & make it a priority in their support for truth, justice and a full reckoning with the legacy of the war.

Profiles of four #HongKong exiles now living in Washington, DC five years on from the mass protests of 2019: Frances Hui 許穎婷, Baggio Leung 梁頌恆, Amity Chan & HKDC’s Huen Lam 林芷萱 , all pressing on in the freedom struggle. rfa.org/english/news/s…

On the 5th anniversary of the start of #HongKong's pro-democracy movement, Radio Free Asia puts out a special feature on me & three other Hongkongers living in Washington DC on how the movement changed our lives & brought us to seek asylum in the US. (1/2) rfa.org/english/news/s…

Grabbed a copy of The New York Times yesterday to see #AppleDaily printed on papers again. It's been 3yrs Hongkongers have lost the only newspaper that stood for the values of democracy & free press. The world cannot forget #AppleDaily, #JimmyLai & all media workers in #HongKong.

Meet Huen Lam (Huen Lam 林芷萱), a Hong Kong exile living in Washington, D.C.⁣ ⁣⁣ Lam is among many Hong Kongers who have fled their homeland in the last five years, after the summer of protests in 2019.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Story by Jim Snyder, Gemunu Amarasinghe and Amelia Loi.

Huen Lam 林芷萱 Jim Snyder Gemunu Amarasinghe She arrived in the U.S. in July 2021, but trauma followed her here. Unable to work without an employment permit, she kept to herself mostly in an apartment in the Washington suburbs. rfa.org/english/news/s…