A group of NGOs released a report noting that Indonesia's state-owned power company might use development funds to expand the Suralaya plant. Pollution from this plant costs already the country a billion dollars a year.
As voters in the southern Indian state go to the polls, the local Church is struggling to carry out its outreach programmes. The issue dates back to 2022, following protests over port construction by the Adani group.
The capital’s biennial car show opened yesterday until May, underscoring China’s dominant role in the EV market. In Europe, EU authorities want to stop it, but Chinese vehicles are ready to take on European markets. With competition fiercer as ever, most manufacturers are losing in the price war.
In its latest annual report, Amnesty International calls for full abolition of the death penalty. With the 2018 moratorium Malaysia has made progress, but that's not enough. Between July 2023 and January 2024, the death penalty was pronounced 26 times. For lawyer Michael Kong, “open public discussions about justice” are needed.
The former East Pakistan is watching the election process closely. Especially with regard to the presence of migrants, of Muslim faith, in India. For now, Dhaka is trying to maintain a certain balance between Delhi's pressure and Beijing's influence, explains Fr Sergio Targa, a Xaverian missionary in Bangladesh since 1992, now in Italy.
Coinciding with the 13 April attack, the police chief launched a 'campaign' against 'violations of the hijab law'. From prison, Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammadi speaks of a 'generalised assault' of rape, abuse, torture. The authorities 'mute' the phones of those protesting. Strikes in universities, feminicides also on the rise.
