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The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profits
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a deal that allows U.S. businesspeople to acquire ownership of TikTok.
Tanzania’s ruling party has crushed the opposition - the elections are a mere formality
The 2025 election will primarily serve to legitimise President Samia Suluhu’s new mandate.
Tibetan Buddhist nuns are getting advanced degrees − and the Dalai Lama played a major role in that shift
A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning.
Foreign interference can be hidden in plain sight. Here’s how countries use ‘sharp power’ in Australia
Authoritarian nations are using new tactics, from emotional manipulation to digital surveillance, to sway diaspora attitudes in their favour.
By building the world’s biggest dam, China hopes to control more than just its water supply
The Motuo hydropower project will be four times the size of the gigantic Three Gorges dam, the next biggest hydropower project in the world.
It is becoming easier to create AI avatars of the deceased − here is why Buddhism would caution against it
A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.
China’s insertion into India-Pakistan waters dispute adds a further ripple in South Asia
China has announced the speeding up of a dam project in Pakistan. It follows the suspension of a key water-sharing treaty by India.
How China’s green transition is reshaping ethnic minority communities
China’s climate policies aim for sustainability, but for ethnic minorities, they often bring displacement, economic strain and erosion of cultural traditions.
China’s interest in the next Dalai Lama is also about control of Tibet’s water supply
Access to water is one reason why China sees control over Tibet as increasingly important.
Hong Kong’s light fades as another pro-democracy party folds
Hong Kong is marking five years of life under China’s national security law – opposition parties have disbanded, while democracy activists remain in jail or exile.
The Dalai Lama is a cisgender man – yet he has an unexpected connection to the trans community
Research shows how the Dalai Lama is emerging an an unlikely inspiration for individuals who share trans and Buddhist identities.
AI helps tell snow leopards apart, improving population counts for these majestic mountain predators
Conservationists have to search rough terrain and thousands of automated photographs to find the elusive cats. Artificial intelligence can help them work more accurately and more efficiently.
China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain
A century after the disappearance of explorer George Mallory, his photos and diary offer a valuable baseline for investigating impacts of tourism and climate change on the Tibet side of Everest.
‘The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop’ sings one last encore from beyond the grave
Discovered in a Tokyo warehouse, a long-lost ballad by Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng rekindles memories of an icon whose voice transcended Asia’s political fault lines.
Disaster authoritarianism: how autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes
Quake-ravaged Tibet has had to contend with censorship and political repression.
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