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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Hasya Nindita |Zhaoyin Feng |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu
In April 2025, the United States Commerce Department finalized a new tariff of up to 3,521 percent on imports of solar panels from four Southeast Asia countries: Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand. This came after the alleged that major Chinese solar panel manufacturers operating in those four countries are exporting panels below production cost, resulting in unfairly cheap goods flooding the US market.
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2 months ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Hasya Nindita |Zhaoyin Feng |Oiwan Lam |Celia E. Luna
Este artículo se publica como parte de Beca Justicia Climática Global 2025, que une a periodistas de países sinófobos y de la mayoría global para investigar los efectos de proyectos de desarrollo chino en el extranjero. Joko, de 49 años, remó con su canoa por las turbias aguas del mar hasta su casa en el pueblo de Kurisa, tranquila localidad pesquera de Sulawesi Central (Indonesia).
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Adesewa Olofinko |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita
American scholar Paul Wesley Chambers is facing prosecution in Thailand for allegedly insulting the monarchy and violating the country's cybercrime laws. Academics and human rights advocates widely condemned his indictment and warned against the continued weaponization of laws to stifle critical views. Chambers, who has been living in Thailand for three decades, is a faculty member of Naresuan University, where he lectures on civil-military relations in Southeast Asia.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Adesewa Olofinko |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Jean de Dieu SOVON
This report was written by Kelly Ho and published in the Hong Kong Free Press on April 15, 2025. The following edited version is published as part of a content partnership agreement. Hong Kong’s education minister said that schools are on the “frontline” of preventing the spread of “soft resistance,” as students may develop “extreme, biased” values due to online rumours.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Biswash Chepang |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Arzu Geybulla
In a move that has led to a mass public reaction in Turkey, the country is debating one question: “What is normal?” This came about in response to members of a men's football team from Sivas unfurling a banner at the start of a game that read, “Doğal Olan Normal Doğum” (What is natural is normal birth), implying that giving birth through ceasarian sections are not “normal” or somehow lesser than vaginal births.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Adesewa Olofinko |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Jean de Dieu SOVON
In the current trade conflict between the US and China, the most misunderstood player isn’t China or the US — it’s Africa. And that’s no coincidence. Too often, the continent is treated as a pawn in global power games, rather than a collection of 55 member states navigating layered and often competing interests. What began as a tariff spat driven by US President Donald Trump has evolved into something far more consequential.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Jean de Dieu SOVON
AK: I believe we should start from very small, local instances. For example, I am working to involve real-world cultural institutions in the creation of datasets, thereby developing highly curated and customized models to train AI without scraping the internet. This approach helps resist the exploitation that typically underpins the making and training of these technologies, which is also where most biases are introduced.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Zhaoyin Feng |Hasya Nindita |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Vivian Wu
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here. In October 2024, a sudden explosion rocked a steel factory at Morowali in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Oiwan Lam |GV South Asia |Mong Palatino |Hasya Nindita
While the US has been ramping up tariffs against China for months now as part of its escalating trade war, US President Donald Trump has moved forward to impose staggering 104 percent tariffs and a 125 percent duty rate on all Chinese imports beginning April 9th. The tariff war has resulted in a literal economic “decoupling” of China and the US.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Janine Mendes-Franco |Emma Lewis |Hasya Nindita |Zhaoyin Feng
Mark Loquan, a distinguished chemical engineer and celebrated composer who effortlessly moved between Trinidad and Tobago's corporate and creative worlds – and often made them seamlessly intertwine for the greater national good – passed away on April 6, at the age of 63, from brain cancer. His career in the local energy industry began in 1982, when he took up the position of process engineer at Trinidad Nitrogen Co. Ltd. Twenty years later, he became the first local president of Yara Trinidad Ltd.
