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Park and Abe have finally met in Seoul, and while the press seems to be playing up hope for the future the meeting could set up, they’re largely ignoring the facts. Plus the United Nations says enough already and calls on Malaysia to release Anwar Ibrahim. South Korea pulls a monitoring app, but still invades the privacy of its youth.
South Korea and Japan meet and manage to step over incredibly low bar
Generally the media has been singing the praises of South Korean Park Guen-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Not that anything was achieved at the meeting, but that they met at all — and quite frankly, they shouldn’t. The bar for the first meeting between Park and Abe, that simply holding it was considered a success, and that’s being far too generous. After all, these are two leaders to have used the fraught ties to further their domestic agendas for three years. I mean, when we lay the bar on the ground and one expends no effort to go over it, is that something that should be lauded
United Nation calls for Malaysia’s Anwar to be immediately released
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a sub group of the UN Human Rights Council, concluded that the detention and conviction of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was arbitrary, and that his sodomy charges were politically motivated to discredit him. The report concluded Anwar was denied access to a fair trial and that there was no due process in court, alleging that the judge was biased. It also said the motives of the chief prosecutor were biased and took issue with the haste of the appeal hearing and sentencing.
South Korea pulls support for nanny app, but leaves program in place
Teen suicide is a real issue in South Korea, as the nation boats one of the highest rates among OECD nations. As a result, the government enacted a nanny state policy in order to better get ahold of the situation and try to prevent tragic events. But rather than address the privacy violations caused by one app’s lack of security, the nation rolls on.
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Park and Abe have finally met in Seoul, and while the press seems to be playing up hope for the future the meeting could set up, they’re largely ignoring the facts. Plus the United Nations says enough already and calls on Malaysia to release Anwar Ibrahim. South Korea pulls a monitoring app, but still invades the privacy of its youth.
South Korea and Japan meet and manage to step over incredibly low bar
Generally the media has been singing the praises of South Korean Park Guen-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Not that anything was achieved at the meeting, but that they met at all — and quite frankly, they shouldn’t. The bar for the first meeting between Park and Abe, that simply holding it was considered a success, and that’s being far too generous. After all, these are two leaders to have used the fraught ties to further their domestic agendas for three years. I mean, when we lay the bar on the ground and one expends no effort to go over it, is that something that should be lauded
United Nation calls for Malaysia’s Anwar to be immediately released
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a sub group of the UN Human Rights Council, concluded that the detention and conviction of Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was arbitrary, and that his sodomy charges were politically motivated to discredit him. The report concluded Anwar was denied access to a fair trial and that there was no due process in court, alleging that the judge was biased. It also said the motives of the chief prosecutor were biased and took issue with the haste of the appeal hearing and sentencing.
South Korea pulls support for nanny app, but leaves program in place
Teen suicide is a real issue in South Korea, as the nation boats one of the highest rates among OECD nations. As a result, the government enacted a nanny state policy in order to better get ahold of the situation and try to prevent tragic events. But rather than address the privacy violations caused by one app’s lack of security, the nation rolls on.
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