Air strikes kill dozens in central Myanmar

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BANGKOK: Dozens of people in coup-hit Myanmar’s central region were killed in air strikes on Tuesday (Apr 11), according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP. The country has been in chaos and its economy in tatters since the military seized power in February 2021. The death tollContinue Reading

Are Taiwan’s Kinmen (Quemoy) Islands in the hot seat?

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The Kinmen Islands, today under Taiwan sovereignty and called Kinmen County, are located just off the coast of China’s Greater Amoy barrier island. You can see the Chinese city of Xiamen from Kinmen, which is little more than a mile away. The Kinmen Islands have been known in the West by their old Portuguese name, Quemoy.  They […]Continue Reading

SOLS Foundation inclusion work gets boost from Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator recognition

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US$100k for scaling Skills Hub platform, US$100k worth of devices from HP
Run workshops in 12 Orang Asli villages, touch 10k graduates for Skills Hub [Ed: Headline corrected. An earlier version gave the wrong name for the foundation.]
“I would consider Orang Asli to sometimes even be B20 because there’s more of a digital divide for…Continue Reading