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A screenshot from Comment Robot's public Weibo profile page. Fair Use. “Comment Robot” (评论罗伯特), an AI Chatbot, has sparked quite some amusement and rage on Weibo since December 2023, as it has kept poking many Weibo users with humorous, heart-warming, but sometimes inappropriate or even offensive comments. When it first emerged in early December 2023, some users with very few followers were puzzled as to why their Weibo updates had caught the attention of a “Big V” – Weibo's official verified user and opinion leader with many followers – who had zero connection with them online. After local me...
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A training program organized by the Cambodia Peace Gallery. Source: Facebook. Used with permission Since October 2018, the Cambodia Peace Gallery in the province of Battambang has been offering an alternative space for local and foreign visitors who want to learn more about the history of war and conflict in Cambodia and the peacebuilding efforts across the country. Cambodia was heavily bombed by United States forces during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s. This was followed by the rise of the Khmer Rouge who ruled from 1975 to 1979. An estimated 1.5 to 2 million people were killed...
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A polling station in north Jakarta during the 2024 election. Photo by Jeromi Mikhael / Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 DEED On March 20, Indonesia’s General Election Commission (KPU) announced the winners of the February 14 election amid continuing accusations of fraud and interference allegedly committed by the incumbent government. KPU declared Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto as the winner in the presidential race after garnering 96.2 million votes or 58.6 percent of total votes cast. He defeated former Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and former Central Java Governor Ganjar Pranowo. Anies and G...
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Photo of the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan, from Wikipedia, used under CC BY 2.0 Licence In the spring of 2014, Taiwan experienced an unprecedented youth protest known as theSunflower Movement that altered local politics and relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). But what is its legacy ten years later, as relations between the two countries remain a source of tension? To unpack the movement that occupied governmental institutions as a reaction to a proposed deeper economic integration with the PRC, Global Voices interviewed Taipei-based journalist and activist Brian Hioe, one...
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Hong Kong lawmakers voted on a proposed domestic security law required under Article 23 of the Basic Law on March 19, 2024. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. The original version of this report was written by Mercedes Hutton and published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 19, 2024. The following edited version has been published on Global Voices as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature has unanimously passed new domestic security legislation, making treason, insurrection and sabotage punishable by up to life in prison and rej...
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Radio Free Asia’s report on the Article 23 legislation in Hong Kong on March 13, 2024. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Kelly Ho and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 14, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. US funded-news outlet Radio Free Asia (RFA), which had been accused of being “anti-China” by Beijing-backed newspapers, is set to withdraw from Hong Kong, according to local media reports. HK01 and the South China Morning Post, among others, reported on March 13 that...
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Mo Yan. Image by Bengt Nyman via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. This post was written by Alex Colville and originally published in the China Media Project on March 11, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with the China Media Project. A spat about the patriotism of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture. One of China’s most celebrated modern authors is in the firing line, and...
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Ingat, an anthology by domestic workers in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Hillary Leung and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 9, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Maria Editha Garma-Respicio fondly recalls her teenage years writing for her school newspaper, reading in the library and penning poems about love. Growing up in Tuguegarao, a city in the northern Philippines, she sought solace in the written word when all else seemed to be falling apart. “I wro...
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Image by Giovana Fleck, used with permission. This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones here. In February 2021, the military staged a coup in Myanmar, citing allegations of “electoral fraud” by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the 2020 general elections. We've been monitoring the country since and registered the rise in authoritarian narratives and practices from the military. Our researchers have been on the frontlines of understanding Myanmar's media ecosystem and the many shifts in the narratives spread by ...
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Ruea, 65, became homeless about losing her business during the pandemic. Photo and caption by Prachatai. Used with permission. This article by Sarah Eichstadt was originally published by Prachatai, an independent news site in Thailand. An edited version has been republished by Global Voices under a partner content-sharing agreement. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Bangkok's homeless population has been rising. Many of these newly unhoused people are elderly. Advocates and experts now say raising the elderly pension is one solution to this growing crisis. Meanwhile, imposing a wealth tax could hel...
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