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9 September, 2024
Melbourne-based documentary filmmaker Vikrant Kishore. Photo: Vikrant Kishore
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

United States

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

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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’.

Isa Guha, part of England’s squad that won the World Cup and World T20 in 2009, made the comments on Sunday while commentating for Fox. Photo: WireImage
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.

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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.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Time to enforce building code for barrier-free access in Hong Kong

Readers discuss the slow pace of change to cater to wheelchair users, tackling hospitals’ operational issues, elderly people who live alone and the call for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Two elderly women rest in a park next to a wheelchair, in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan district on May 29. Photo: Jelly Tse
Donald Trump

Trump team takes aim at Ivy League, gearing up attacks on diversity programmes

One proposal seeks to slash funding for universities that favour one racial or ethnic group or gender over another.

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The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo: AP
Art

US artist Howardena Pindell holds first Asia solo show in Hong Kong

On show at White Cube, the wonders of space and nature, and a racist symbol, shape the art of Pindell, 81, raised in the America of Jim Crow.

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Icons and Influencers

Meet Nancy Mace, who introduced the transphobic Capitol Hill bathroom bill

The Republican South Carolina Representative admitted she deliberately targeted the former Delaware state senator – but seems unbothered by death threats.

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Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong should be a city where wheelchair users are welcome

Readers discuss cases of restaurants turning away customers in wheelchair, using ChatGPT to improve English-speaking abilities and discrimination against ethnic minority groups.

Elderly women sit on a bench in a housing estate in Hong Kong in April 2019. The demand for barrier-free facilities and services will grow in Hong Kong amid population ageing. Photo: Getty Images
Pakistan

Pakistan town in uproar after 40 Shiite Muslims shot dead in bus convoy

Angry crowds, incensed by the ambush, gathered in the remote mountain town of Parachinar, in the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation.

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English Premier League

Bentancur banned 7 games, fined £100k for racist remark about Spurs teammate Son

The Uruguayan midfielder was also fined £100,000 (US$126,000) for the offensive comment that ‘brought the game into disrepute’.

South Africa

Foreign grocers face xenophobia after South Africa food poisoning deaths

While there was no sign of a deliberate campaign to poison children, vigilantes have targeted Ethiopian and South Asian shopkeepers.

A worker speaks with a customer at a spaza shop in Soweto, South Africa, on November 12. Photo: AFP
US presidential election 2024

Trump’s defence pick Hegseth was flagged as possible ‘insider threat’

The ex-Fox News host has a ‘Deus Vult’ tattoo on his bicep, a Christian expression that has become associated with right-wing extremism.

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Pete Hegseth walks to an elevator for a meeting Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. Photo: AP
Singapore

Singapore’s workplace fairness law hailed but rights group points to gaps

Employers who discriminate against workers based on characteristics such as race, age, sex and nationality could be prosecuted under the proposed law.

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The Netherlands

Dutch firebrand Wilders wants to deport those who attacked Israeli soccer fans

Opposition lawmakers say the far-right politician’s remarks are ‘pouring oil on the fire’.

Sri Lanka

Women candidates signal potential shift in Sri Lanka’s male-dominated politics

While analysts welcome the increase, they caution that more women in politics alone won’t challenge patriarchal norms and achieve true gender equality.

People wait in a queue to cast their ballots at a polling station during Sri Lanka’s presidential election in Galle on September 21. Photo: TNS
Fame and celebrity

Meet Robert Griffin III’s stunning Estonian former heptathlete wife, Grete

Former NFL star Robert Griffin III is clapping back at the netizens who said his children ‘aren’t Black’ because of their white Estonian-American mother, Grete – here’s what we know about her.

Former NFL star Robert Griffin III has been married to Grete Griffin for six years. Photos: @gretegiii/Instagram
Icons and Influencers

Who is Ann Coulter, the woman dubbed ‘fascist Barbie’ by the left?

Opinionated media commentator Ann Coulter is no stranger to controversy, having criticised everyone from Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to Tim Walz’s son and 9/11 widows.

Icons and Influencers

Meet Richard Spencer, the alt-right poster boy who endorsed Kamala Harris

Spencer, who is banned from the Schengen Area in Europe, was a staunch Trump supporter who believes in a white ethno-state, but thought Harris would be the ‘best manager of the American empire’.

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