Insight

By Alex Hern Facebook’s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for ‘public figures’ to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including ‘calls for death’, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines…
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By David E. Sanger and Emily Schmall WASHINGTON — Early last summer, Chinese and Indian troops clashed in a surprise border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs. Four months later and more…
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By Pete Pattisson, Niamh McIntyre, Imran Mukhtar in Islamabad, Nikhil Eapen in Bangalore, Imran Mukhtar in Islamabad, Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan in Dhaka, Udwab Bhattarai in Kathmandu and Aanya Piyari in Colombo More than 6,500 migrant workers…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO – December 16, 2020 marks the 49th anniversary of the end of the war in East Pakistan which led to the emergence of an independent Bangladesh. Joint operations by the Bangladeshi guerrilla force, the Mukti…
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The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka conducted the first national study on the treatment and conditions of prisoners from February 2018 to January 2020. The findings of the report are very relevant, especially in light of the prisoner…
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By Phil Miller British mercenaries were active in Sri Lanka for up to a year longer than previously thought, Declassified has found. The company for which they worked, Keenie Meenie Services (KMS), kept an intelligence officer…
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By Mary Ann Jolley Malaysia’s $4.5bn 1MDB scandal brought down the country’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, and in July saw him convicted and sentenced to 12 years in jail, subject to an appeal, in the first of several trials over…
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By Caitlin Dickerson Radio spots are airing throughout Mexico and Central America. Court-appointed researchers are motor-biking through rural hillside communities in Guatemala and showing up at courthouses in Honduras to conduct public…
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By Nishan Degnarain The Panama- flag oil supertanker that had an explosion off the coast of Sri Lanka earlier this month, the MT New Diamond, is being helped by a controversial support vessel that led the operation to deliberately  sink…
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By Noam Scheiber and Emily Flitter A cache of thousands of reports that major banks filed with federal regulators shows that they helped suspected terrorists, drug dealers and corrupt foreign officials move trillions of dollars around…
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