Ripped from the Headlines

October 7, 2020
Last year, a woman who was sexually harassed by her boss was sentenced to jail after she recorded a lewd call between the two of them where he was giving her unwanted sexual...
October 7, 2020
The Bangkok Post’s September 2020 article “Sex workers petition to decriminalise prostitution” revealed that sex workers in Thailand are banding together to combat the...
October 6, 2020
17-year-old student Siti Nurannisa recounts: “Before I knew it, I was looking into the ‘otherworld’. Scenes of blood, gore and violence” and that “the scariest thing I saw...
October 6, 2020
This article, “Malaysia’s palm oil giant FGV vows to clear name after US import ban” from the Straits Times details the ruling by the US government to ban palm oil imports...
October 6, 2020
Hannah Beech’s New York Times article reports that the blatant ignoring of traffic laws has led to so many fatalities and death in Thailand, a country notorious for having...
October 5, 2020
Facing families concerned about relatives verging on homelessness during the COVID lockdown, a Malacañang official emphasized that these locally stranded individuals (LSIs)...
October 4, 2020
Author: Dylan Carlson Sirvent León   Recent news from Cambodia highlight the ways in which Covid-19 is mapping itself onto the geopolitics of the pre-pandemic world. As...

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