It comes as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the crisis of the news industry, long affected by losses in advertising revenue and in a desperate search for a sustainable business model. This year, many newsrooms have had to cut costs to survive, and that usually means lettingContinue Reading
Hong Kong’s recently enacted national security law has empowered the security police to freeze suspects’ bank accounts during an investigation, which has eroded public trust in the banking system. In the past few months, there have been several cases which indicate that the banking system is being been weaponized byContinue Reading
Belarusians continue to protest against longtime ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, braving police violence and the cold. As the EU prepares its third package of sanctions against Belarusian officials and enterprises, demands are growing for the West to apply greater economic pressure, in particular to consider banning the supply of certain ITContinue Reading
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Friedrich Ebert Stiftung blog and is republished here with permission with light edits. Following the World Health Organization’s designation of the coronavirus as a pandemic, Rwanda became the first country in Africa to enter a phase of confinement. On March 23, the governmentContinue Reading
In September 2020, the Congolese government, through the Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and new Information and Communication Technologies, announced the establishment of the Mobile Device Registry (RAM). In the announcement, the minister expressed great confidence that the registry would be an essential tool for the protection of Congolese users ofContinue Reading
Just after 11 p.m. EST on January 4, news broke that Jamaican hotelier Gordon “Butch” Stewart, the self-made businessman who perfected the all-inclusive tourism model the Caribbean is famous for, had passed away at a Miami hospital at age 79. In keeping with his wishes, his family said that theContinue Reading
This story was originally published in Chinese on the Stand News on January 4, 2021. The following English translation is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Hong Kong’s homes are getting increasingly smaller as “nano flats” proliferate in the world’s most expensive property market, leading to aContinue Reading