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Thu, 17/10/2024 - 04:51
South Korean novelist Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, beating short-listed literary heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Gerald Murnane, and the all-odds-favourite, Chinese author Can Xue. Han Kang was as shocked as anyone else after receiving the call notifying her that she had won. When asked what she would Continue reading »
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Mon, 14/10/2024 - 04:50
To appreciate the true magnitude of its disgrace, imagine the response if murdered Gazan journalist Hassan Hamad were an Uygur or a Tibetan. Earth, receive an honoured guest … In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace / Continue reading »
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Mon, 14/10/2024 - 10:27
Our five-minute scroll on X witnessed Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan telling CNN media agencies will reckon with their role in the genocide in Gaza, while the Israeli Minister for Social Equality declares she is proud of the ruins in Gaza. Doctor’s in Gaza release x-rays of bullets in children’s skulls. The French parliament erupts over a Continue reading »
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Mon, 14/10/2024 - 04:51
As a transsexual woman driven by a deep curiosity about the flow of events, the past few years have been especially challenging. Nonetheless, I rose to the task, guided by the principle that truth must be defended. During this time, I have written 30 essays that meet high editorial standards, along with at least as Continue reading »
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Sat, 12/10/2024 - 04:55
In Asian media this week: Europe’s China business chief says conflict unavoidable. Plus: US lacks strategy for China confrontation; Japan’s new PM calls snap election; Junta’s election “census” a counter-insurgency ploy; America’s Gaza failure shakes confidence in rules-based order; Seoul has no answer for Pyongyang’s dirty campaign. China and the EU are shaping up for Continue reading »
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Tue, 08/10/2024 - 04:58
It has been a year of erasing a people, systematically, ruthlessly and unrelentingly. A massacre here and another there. 500 killed yesterday and ‘only’ 140 today. It has been a year of obliterating a culture, an identity and a collective memory. A year of levelling universities, libraries and museums. A year of burning archives, photographs and centuries-old Continue reading »