Indonesian Dewan Pers and education ministry act to protect student media. University leaders should bolster press freedom on campus amidst intimidation, censorship, and newsroom closures hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

John Lennon's demo 'Now and Then' was first worked on in February 1995 by Paul, George and Ringo. But it remained unfinished because of the challenges in working with the vocal John had recorded on tape in the 1970s youtube.com/watch?v=APJAQo…

A high school teacher in New Orleans didn’t expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge youtube.com/watch?v=VHeWnd…

Heatwave and droughts have drastically reduced crop yields, including in durian farms. The fruit is one of Thailand’s most lucrative exports. Warming temperatures have been creating panic among growers and sellers youtube.com/watch?v=5HKoru…

“This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust,” U.S. President Joe Biden said. “It didn’t end with the Holocaust, either” #HolocaustMemorialDay nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/…

Israeli security forces have unlawfully used lethal force in fatal shootings of Palestinians, including deliberately executing Palestinians who posed no apparent security threat, based on documentation of several cases since 2022 hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

PM Narendra Modi and his government are pouring billions into a project that will make Ayodhya a hub for religious tourism. A new $220 million temple called the Ram Mandir sits at the center of the plan to construct a nearly $4 billion project youtube.com/watch?v=2sgfr3…

Taiwan singer Teresa Teng died in a hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in May 1995. Her music was banned in China in the 1970s but her influence was still compared to that of leader Deng Xiaoping, “Big Deng rules by day, while Little Deng rules by night”⁠ scmp.com/magazines/post…

Manila said the China Coast Guard damaged a Philippine Coast Guard ship and another government vessel with a high-pressure water cannon as the boats were bringing fuel, food and water to Filipino fishermen at Scarborough Shoal channelnewsasia.com/asia/philippin…

The Chicago-based Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with roughly a dozen journalists, got two Pulitzer prizes for local and audio reporting nytimes.com/2024/05/06/bus…

Catholic students held a rosary prayer inside their boarding house were attacked in Cisauk, South Tangerang, outside Jakarta. Some students were hacked. The head of the neighborhood led the attack to to disperse the students headtopics.com/id/seusai-vira…

In Washington, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported that Jakarta criminalized blasphemy and hate speech without clear definitions, recommending to put Indonesia on 'a watch list' benarnews.org/english/news/i…

Islanders on small Philippine chain of Batanes worry a China-Taiwan conflict could spill over. They're close to Taiwan, which is only 193 km away. On a clear day, islanders say they can see Taiwan’s southern tip. benarnews.org/english/news/p…

Di Jakarta, ASEAN sedang selesaikan deklarasi soal perlindungan lingkungan hidup. Draft tsb perlu masukkan hak asasi manusia, pertanggungjawaban perusahaan serta hak masyarakat adat akan sumber daya dan wilayah mereka hrw.org/id/news/2024/0…

The brutal temperatures in South East Asia underscore the need to hammer out the details of a regional environmental rights declaration, work that is underway today in Jakarta as a working group formed by ASEAN convenes hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

Arief Budiman anak Jakarta tulen, dibesarkan di keluarga Tionghoa. Idealismenya, kesadaran dan komitmen bisa mengubah keadaan; sementara gerakan politik, dengan agenda mengubah struktur, selalu terjebak dalam “tangan-tangan kotor” RIP andreasharsono.net/2018/01/arief-…