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May 21, 2024
Despite Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s pledge last February to “appropriately handle” the flow of government aid to Myanmar’s abusive military, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official told the Diet this week that Japan’s construction giant, Yokogawa Bridge Corp., will make further payments to the military-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) for an aid project.
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May 21, 2024
People in the United States are more reliant than ever on using the internet for all aspects of their lives. But one in six US households may lose internet access by June when current federal funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) ends.
Marisol Coronado, center, prepares for a zoom call, while her husband and son spend time in the living room of their apartment in Huntington Park on April 19, 2024.
May 21, 2024
Chinese government officials are systematically using extreme forms of pressure to coerce rural Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages. Officials have relocated or are currently relocating 500 villages with over 140,000 residents to new locations, often hundreds of kilometers away.
Two men speaking with another man in a house