BREAKING: Netanyahu's Cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera offices in Israel apnews.com/article/israel…

Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja and Hong Kong’s Zunzi win Kofi Annan cartooning award

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Aware of it or not, most everyone who rode the Hong Kong midlevels escalator in the past few years probably knows of Andy. He was a constant presence near them with his suit, lime green tie, matching step stool and microphone.

Great Daily Trojan story on two USC students who rushed to UCLA to help out injured student protesters. #somethings

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After two years of workshops in Singapore and Australia with dramaturges, directors, and a very cool percussionist, tickets are now on sale for Sim Chi Yin one-woman performance on memory and Britain's longest colonial war, the Malayan Emergency.
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Frontier is honoured to be the winner of two awards at the HumanRightsPressAwards, and to be a finalist in nine categories at the The Society of Publishers in Asia awards, with the winners announced next month. We hope this helps raise international awareness of Myanmar's overlooked crisis.

“One of the great contradictions of the Biden foreign policy: it has certain values but it doesn’t enforce those values when it collides with interests. India gets an exemption card” Ravi Agrawal

A good read for Myanmar watchers who were wondering about those POSCO stories that Myanmar Now called out a few weeks back.

'The Daily Trojan, the Daily Bruin, the Emory Wheel, The Daily Californian, Washington Square News, the Berkeley Beacon and the Daily Texan — have come together to compile this nationwide photo essay.'

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Chinese-owned media are distancing themselves from Asia's highest-profile journalism prize amid rising domestic pressure on those seen to be 'colluding with foreign forces.' #SOPA

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“Another bullet struck eight-year-old Adam in the back of the head as he ran away; his older brother Baha desperately tried to drag him to cover, leaving a trail of blood as he screamed for an ambulance.”

'Students nationwide are watching how the adults who professed to care about free speech are responding under pressure. And they are learning that those adults don’t really mean what they say about the First Amendment.'

✍️ Will Creeley for The Atlantic
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Just barely visible on the right side of this screen grab from a Fox reporter's livestream of the protest at UCLA, there is a 'Burma 4 Palestine' sign stuck to a piece of plywood. You can see it it other footage as well.

As she tried to break free, one UCLA student journalist said, she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.
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Further evidence that Indonesia's government extensively uses spyware, targeting journalists, rights activists, and politicians