Tag: Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT: Pandemic worsens situation of young mothers in conflict areas
People in conflict areas are left with nowhere to go as aid deliveries have lessened or stopped due to travel restrictions
SPOTLIGHT: Malaysia detains thousands of migrants in sting operation
Authorities use ruse of screening for coronavirus to raid apartment complexes in Kuala Lumpur for undocumented migrants and prep them for deportation
SPOTLIGHT: The rise in COVID-19 xenophobia in China
World reacts to a surge of Chinese state-sanctioned racism against Africans and others
SPOTLIGHT: Faith and power in the People’s Republic of China
Chinese Communist Party’s obsession with power — and its paranoia about its hold on it — is built into its DNA
SPOTLIGHT: The effect of COVID-19 on international order
Beijing is trying to spin the story to the world that its authoritarian model is curtailing the virus, but the opposite is true
SPOTLIGHT: Beijing’s bullying of the foreign media, another reason to decouple...
Academics and journalists walk on eggshells when writing about China because they know the Chinese Communist Party is looking over their shoulder
SPOTLIGHT: Language and power in the time of pandemic
Language is a key tool to control those who threaten the absolute power of the Chinese Communist Party
SPOTLIGHT: Poor left out in the cold in Philippines’ race to...
For millions of slum dwellers and low-income earners, lockdown and viral fears threaten calamity
From nannies to helpers, coronavirus spotlights women’s job insecurity in Asia
Women are ‘hit harder by economic impacts’ of the new coronavirus
SPOTLIGHT: Recycling candles sustains Philippine diocese’s social action work
A diocese in the central Philippines has been able to sustain its social action work, including the payment of salaries of its 22 workers, by recycling candles.