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Guru Weekly's Buzz for Jan 13 to 19

Guru by Bangkok Post's pick of the most exciting products, activities, art exhibitions, shows, food and hotel deals.

Bangkok Post

Bodies pile up at Chinese crematoriums as Covid surges

SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.

Bangkok Post

Chinese cities reveal COVID cases surpassing national tally

Two Chinese cities reported daily COVID-19 cases that far surpassed the official national tally, in another illustration of the unreliability of data in a country grappling with infections after abruptly ending COVID zero.

Tribune News Service

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Tencent CEO Pony Ma blasts employees for laziness, not cutting costs

Tencent, the world's largest game developer, has had to survive a crackdown in China and a slowing global game market.

Fortune

Youngkin executive order bans TikTok from state computers

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has banned the use of several Chinese-owned apps including TikTok and WeChat on state government devices and wireless networks

The Independent UK

Ethnic community media can play a key role in a crisis – but it needs our support

The recent Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? report on diversity in Australian newsrooms revealed some grim, but unsurprising figures. The report found most television news and current affairs presenters on major Australian free-to-air networks are Anglo-Celtic. So too were most senior network news editors.

The Conversation

Chinese users play cat-and-mouse with censors amid protests

Word of anti-lockdown protests in China spread on domestic social media for a short period last weekend, thanks to a rare pause in the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between millions of Chinese internet users and the country’s gargantuan censorship machine

The Independent UK

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China COVID protests die down, but policy resentment remains

Beijing flooded streets with police and security personnel while tweaking COVID response after rare nationwide protests.

Al Jazeera

Dating apps and Telegram: How China protesters are defying authorities

Opponents of China's anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors, spread the word about their defiance and strategy, in a high-tech game of cat and mouse with police.

Reuters

China’s COVID protesters, censors play cat-and-mouse game online

Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang.

Al Jazeera

China's planned national digital health code system raises concerns over state surveillance

Beijing plans to develop an integrated online health platform featuring the digital health records of every resident, sparking concerns about intensified state surveillance.

ABC News

China blocks viral WeChat post criticizing tough Covid policies

BEIJING: A social media post that questioned China’s Covid policies was removed and the author blocked after it went viral on the country’s WeChat platform Tuesday -- speaking to growing public concerns about Beijing’s stance, and the continuing sensitivities over criticism of its outlier approach.

The Times of India

POINT: Support free speech? You should be rooting for Musk’s Twitter transformation to succeed

Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether an Elon Musk-led Twitter is good for free speech, and much of that debate is happening on Twitter. On the surface, this fact goes a long way to prove the point.

Tribune News Service

'A Pretty Scary Moment': Dissident Chinese Students Say George Washington University Is Failing Them

The CCP’s tyranny extends even to U.S. college campuses, where Chinese and Taiwanese students fear censorship.

Reason

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The Guardian - US

TikTok’s ties to China: why concerns over your data are here to stay

Harvesting data is the norm for social media apps, but the question that many have is where it goes and who has access to it

The Guardian - UK

Chinese city accused of ‘performative lockdown lifting’

Residents claim Zhengzhou authorities are trying to avoid scrutiny of Covid lockdown’s severity

The Guardian - UK

Visitors trapped in Shanghai’s Disney resort after lockdown announced

Videos appear to show guests rushing to locked gates as strict Covid restrictions return across China

The New Daily

Trump, conspiracies and the ‘X’ factor – what Elon Musk has planned for Twitter

Elon Musk responded to Hillary Clinton on Twitter sharing a link to a fake news article – while Donald Trump praised the Twitter's new chief.

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The New Daily

Alan Kohler: The twitterverse bows to the chief twit, Elon Musk

Can Elon Musk convince enough Twitter users to switch where they bank and shop to his newly-acquired platform, asks Alan Kohler.

Daily Mirror

Sweeping Twitter changes may be coming - tweet editing, no banned accounts and payments

Elon Musk has completed the purchase of Twitter and seems to have grand plans - including the creation of a 'super app', employees being fired and the returns of Donald Trump and Kanye West

The Independent UK

Elon Musk has bought Twitter. Now what?

Elon Musk has promised to make big changes to Twitter as part of his goal of making it an ‘everything app’ with one billion users. Tech experts say he has his work cut out, Bevan Hurley reports

The Times of India

China locks down parts of Xi’an as Covid Zero curbs ripple

BEIJING: China locked down parts of the central metropolis of Xi’an, confining some of the city’s 13 million people to their homes for at least a week, and other major hubs are rolling out virus restrictions in a reinforcement of the country’s commitment to Covid Zero.

ABC News

The relentless rise of Xi Jinping: From an exiled prince to China's potentially permanent ruler

From the son of a respected China reformer to the permanent leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has reshaped China's domestic politics and international orders in the past decade, with experts predicting a more dominating and aggressive China in the next five years.

The Independent UK

Musk has a 'super app' plan for Twitter. It's super vague

For months, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has expressed interest in creating his own version of China’s WeChat — a “super app” that does video chats, messaging, streaming and payments — for the rest of the world

The Guardian - AU

Dissidents in China detained and harassed as Beijing prepares for party congress

Government critics and activists intimidated by police ahead of Sunday’s Communist party meeting, where Xi Jinping is expected to gain third term

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