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AI and TikTok are shaking up the news industry

TikTok users are increasingly getting their news there—but traditional media execs say young people are still just as thirsty for the truth.

Fortune · Nov 16, 2023

Subsidence spurs checks on India's hydro push

Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling -- a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC.

Bangkok Post · Jan 27, 2023

Saudi 'snitch app' raises alarms

BEIRUT: A Saudi app that lets ordinary people “play the role of a police officer” may have alerted authorities to the tweets of a student whose sentencing to 34 years in jail has drawn international condemnation.

Bangkok Post · Sep 3, 2022

Iraq’s Farmers Pushed off Land as Drought and Heat Cripple Crops

Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governorate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight. Now dust kicks up under his feet as he walks through his land, after…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 11, 2022

Iran Returns Passport of Detained UK Charity Worker

Iranian authorities have returned the passport of a UK woman who has been detained in the country for almost six years, raising hopes of progress in negotiations toward her release. Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe remains at her parents' home in Tehran, said Tulip Siddiq, her local lawmaker in the UK.…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 15, 2022

Govt pledges to ban forced prison labour after expose

The Corrections Department has pledged to eradicate forced labour in its prisons and pay a decent wage to inmates who opt to work, following an expose by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Bangkok Post · Mar 2, 2022

US urged to ban nets made with Thai prison labour

A coalition of human rights groups is urging the US government to ban imports of fishing nets from two major Thai suppliers, following a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation into the use of forced prison labour.

Bangkok Post · Feb 19, 2022