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9 September, 2024
A supporter waves a South African flag during a cricket match between South Africa and Pakistan in Cape Town last month. Photo: AFP
Africa

Trump claims South Africa ‘treating certain classes of people’ badly, cuts funds

The US president has surrounded himself with powerful Silicon Valley figures who came of age in apartheid-era southern Africa.

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Japan

In Japan, a Muslim community’s wish to bury its dead stirs wave of hostility

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Britain

Make England Great Again: jailed far-right figure sparks rival London rallies

Australia

Australian cruise ship operator denies staff dressed in Ku Klux Klan fancy dress

P&O Cruises Australia said the staff, who appeared in all-white jumpsuits and cone-shaped hats, were actually dressed as ‘snow cones’.

A still from a social media video shows staff strolling across the deck of an Australian cruise liner in all-white jumpsuits and cone-shaped hats evoking the distinctive white robes and masked hoods worn by the racist Ku Klux Klan. Photo: X/LidZen5
Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration

Trump calls Washington bishop ‘nasty’ after criticism from cathedral pulpit

The US president was forced to sit through a sermon by a bishop who begged him to have ‘mercy’ on gays and poor immigrants.

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Malaysia

‘Shameful’: outrage in Malaysia as disabled man assaulted in video as people watch

The video shows men attacking the victim, kicking him in the face, prompting a debate on the treatment of vulnerable people in Malaysia.

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Taliban

‘Injustice’: Taliban deputy urges group to scrap female education ban

Sher Abbas Stanikzai urged the group’s leaders ‘to open the doors of education … we are committing an injustice’.

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Afghan women and girls face a lot of discrimination under the Taliban. File photo: AFP
War and conflict

Opinion | Are the 2020s doomed to be a repeat of the 1920s?

As ethno-nationalist populism and propaganda threaten human society, we need leaders who can offer an alternative to confrontation and war.

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Britain

Opinion | Elon Musk should know Britain has always been a nation of immigrants

The United Kingdom’s history and its immigration trends show a country where assimilation is still the general rule.

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Britain

In Auschwitz, UK’s Starmer vows to fight antisemitism back home

The visit made the UK leader see more clearly than ever before how the industrial-level killing didn’t result from the evil deeds of a few individuals.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria place a candle and a stone from Downing Street at a memorial monument during their visit to the Memorial And Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo: AFP
Donald Trump

Meta abandons racial diversity programmes as Zuckerberg woos Trump

The changes come soon after the platform dropped fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US, and mark a further right-wing shift.

People take photos in front of a Meta sign at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Photo: EPA-EFE
US-China relations

Ex-professor sues US university after China spying charges are overturned

A former tenured professor of chemistry accuses the University of Kansas of discrimination and improperly collaborating with the FBI.

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Thailand

Thai ex-PM Thaksin under fire for alleged racist jibe at African women

Former leader says Thai women have ‘natural beauty’ and his Pheu Thai party will promote them to become supermodels.

United States

Opinion | Why the H-1B visa has divided Trump supporters

Tensions within the president-elect’s coalition over high-skilled immigration are symptomatic of larger problems in the US economy.

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Malaysia

Malaysia doubles patrols to find Myanmar migrant boats

The coastguard says 196 migrants, thought to be Rohingya refugees, were detained on Friday on the Malaysian resort island of Langkawi.

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A group of people believed to be Rohingya refugees from Myanmar rest in a boat at a port in Sri Lanka last month. Around one million Rohingya have fled Myanmar since a military offensive was launched in 2017. Photo: AP
Australia

Australia’s South Asians hail anti-racism framework for including caste

The framework will help fight caste discrimination by enhancing legal protections in areas such as housing, education and culture.

Germany

Saudi suspect in German Christmas market attack held on multiple murder charges

Officials say Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a doctor, was angry about country’s permissive attitude to refugees from other mainly Muslim countries.

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United States

Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms

The billionaire says the AfD party ‘can save Germany’. He has already expressed support for other anti-immigration parties across Europe.

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US president-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk watch a fight in New York in November. Photo: AFP
Women's cricket

English commentator apologises for calling Indian cricketer Bumrah a ‘primate’

The broadcaster, a former England player of South Asian heritage, says she ‘meant the highest praise for one of India’s greatest players’.

Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

Letters | ‘Ethnic minority problems’ are really education and poverty problems

Readers discuss the negative stereotypes associated with Hongkongers of South Asian origin, a stumbling block in a controversial housing plan, and China’s automation.

Switzerland

Switzerland seeks to ban Nazi symbols amid surge in antisemitism

Use of the swastika, Hitler salute and other such signs in public would be punished with a US$224 fine under the proposed law.

A protester at a rally against the right-wing Swiss People’s Party in September 2007 holds a card with a swastika superimposed on the party’s election poster showing a black sheep being kicked out of the country by three grinning white sheep. Photo: AFP
Britain

UK bans puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria

Health Secretary Wes Streeting cited a review that concluded that the long-term benefits for treating gender-related distress were unproven.

Transgender youth and allies rally outside the US Supreme Court on December 4. The UK decision comes as the to US court considers the constitutionality of state laws that ban such treatments for minors. Photo: dpa
Australia

Vandals spray ‘Kill Israiel’ graffiti in Australia’s largest Jewish community

The incident in Sydney’s suburb of Woollahra came after federal police established a task force to investigate increasing antisemitic crimes.

Science

Top mathematician says Chinese scientists have no choice but to leave US

Many feel ‘uncomfortable’ because of discrimination, according to Yau Shing-Tung.

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India

‘Worrying’: India-Bangladesh ties tested by mounting communal violence

Amid unrest surrounding the arrest of a Hindu priest, analysts fear violence and growing religious divides are ‘taking the region backwards’.

Indian Hindus take part in a protest outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Mumbai on Monday. Photo: AFP
Myanmar

Will Myanmar’s junta chief face justice for crimes against Rohingya?

The International Criminal Court’s actions could serve to isolate Min Aung Hlaing, but analysts question whether he will be arrested.

Min Aung Hlaing pictured in 2018. Photo: Reuters
United States

Judge upholds use of race in US Naval Academy admissions

The decision follows a US Supreme Court ruling last year that bars civilian colleges from employing similar affirmative action policies.

Old Hong Kong

Recap | Hong Kong’s hidden past reveals a tragic death, gay love and spies

PostMag writer Jason Wordie explores 1930s Hong Kong and discovers vintage guidebooks, LGBTQ acceptance and a tragic death in four Then & Now columns.

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