Kathleen Calderwood

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Iris Zhao |Sally Brooks |Kathleen Calderwood

Beijing is censoring references on China's internet to the skyscraper that collapsed in Bangkok, as the Chinese company involved in the project faces mounting scrutiny in Thailand. The partially constructed tower, set to be the Thai government's State Audit Office, was the only high-rise building to completely crumble in Bangkok last Friday, after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake nearly 1,000 kilometres away in Myanmar shook the Thai capital.

3 weeks ago | business-humanrights.org | Iris Zhao |Sally Brooks |Kathleen Calderwood |Supattra Vimonsuknopparat

Beijing is censoring references on China's internet to the skyscraper that collapsed in Bangkok, as the Chinese company involved in the project faces mounting scrutiny in Thailand……news of the building collapse has been censored on the internet in China, and searches for related keywords like "Bangkok" and "tower" on Chinese social media returned limited results.

Jan 14, 2025 | abc.net.au | Kathleen Calderwood

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Jan 14, 2025 | abc.net.au | Kathleen Calderwood

Overlooking a vast plateau in Tibet, a woman cries as she describes the scene in front of her. Her camera focuses on the ruins of a nunnery, painted a deep maroon and set into a hillside. It's here the poster of the video believes many were injured and in need of help after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake that struck Dingri county, Shigatse prefecture in south-west China a week ago. Loading... "The whole nunnery has fallen into pieces. I can barely look at it," she says through tears.

Jan 5, 2025 | abc.net.au | Kathleen Calderwood

With a thick blanket of snow covering the South Korean capital, crowds of protesters that were in their tens of thousands have thinned substantially. Roads, some at least eight lanes wide, were closed and police out in force as South Koreans took to the streets both in support of and against the impeached president on Saturday. A few of the most fervent stilled braved the cold and snow, many wrapped in silver emergency blankets as they screamed slogans about President Yoon Suk Yeol.