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23.01.2022 SCMPNews: Japan’s government to ask experts whether to declare another coronavirus state of emergency https://t.co/JmA4skTSSA
23.01.2022 Dave_Brophy: Attorney-General’s Department says that any academic collaborating with a foreign colleague on an issue of relevance to Australian policy-making may (?) need to register under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme. https://t.co/TKRllP9O0y
20.01.2022 spectatorindex: Currency against US Dollar, past year. Euro: +9% Australia: +8.7% China: +6.3%... South Korea: +5.3% Japan: +4.5% UK: +3% Egypt: +2.2% Indonesia: -2% India: -3.3% Pakistan: -3.4% South Africa: -4.2% Mexico: -5.5% Russia: -19% Nigeria: -24% Turkey: -26% Brazil: -29% Argentina: -39%
20.01.2022 breadpipeline: If you’re hooking up with a leftist and you see a book you like, just take it. Most likely they didn’t read it and bought it because Verso was having a sale.
19.01.2022 SCMPNews: China lowers age of criminal responsibility to 12 from 14 https://t.co/V4bQcnbc4l
18.01.2022 SCMPNews: China-EU investment deal: who’s the real winner after seven years of negotiations? https://t.co/VBwqTp5vOA
17.01.2022 bopinion: Thank heavens for people like Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci. Husband and wife, they’re cofounders of BioNTech, the German company that with its American partner Pfizer helped create a working vaccine https://t.co/J55U6Of0zx
15.01.2022 SquigglyRick: For me it’s the barely visible maths tutor sign that really makes this https://t.co/BQNPy94va2
15.01.2022 Diplomat_APAC: Efforts to boost pro-China narratives in Japan haven’t received much attention but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. https://t.co/dgKWFDrEAE
11.01.2022 Reuters@Reuters China arrests over 1,100 suspects in crackdown on crypto-related money laundering reut.rs/3534Lki
10.01.2022 andrewjnorton: Niche tweet on history of international education in Australia. Cabinet documents from 2000 released today on country risk profiles, trusted & not trusted providers, & visa cancellations. https://t.co/XpZn1dHkWV
10.01.2022 Michael Fullilove@mfullilove ‘There is just one threat to English as the world’s lingua franca, and it is not Mandarin... It is the language’s own descent into bullshit.’ ft.com/content/d36eed
08.01.2022 Griffith Asia Inst@GAIGriffith A country born amidst famine and war, #Bangladesh is classified by the #WorldBank as lower-middle income economy surpassing #Pakistan and #India in per capita GDP as it celebrates its 50th year of independence ... more from Yan Islam http://ow.ly/iOfQ50F46h6
08.01.2022 straits_times: North Korea’s party congress discusses South Korea, foreign policy https://t.co/dvVrnfN2yK
08.01.2022 bopinion: If 2019 was the year when Europeans began having serious doubts about Beijing’s intentions, 2020 may go down in history as the moment they turned against China in defiance, says @andreaskluth https://t.co/TnqLB4uTOD
07.01.2022 Budd Hall@buddhall Academic researchers actually work 80 or more hours a week in many cases. And there is pressure to do still more. Huge mental health issues in an increasingly precarious field of work Times Higher Education @timeshighered Let’s do away with time sheets based on the pretence that researchers work eight-hour days: major scientific breakthroughs require people to be in...
05.01.2022 Shoon Naing@Shoon_Naing "You are not allowed to rule at all," protesters shout on Friday in Mandalay. More than 4 months since military staged coup & arrested civilian leaders including Aung San Suu Kyi in early morning raids. 845 people were killed by junta according to AAPP. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
05.01.2022 urbanizationist: Interesting report on the socioeconomic inequities of toll roads in Sydney. Bears noting that by shifting financing to the private sector governments deferred making decisions about modal precedence. Sydney is more car dependent as a consequence. https://t.co/YIk4N6dS01
03.01.2022 jonfavs: In just four years, Donald Trump cost the Republican Party the House, the Senate, and the presidency. Well done, sir!
02.01.2022 SCMPNews: Coronavirus visa uncertainty turns foreign students against China https://t.co/yogAsxkemv
02.01.2022 bopinion: Economists have assumed lockdowns were the main cause of reduced economic activity. But in reality, fear of coronavirus is probably a much more important factor keeping people in their homes https://t.co/TlLc03G8tO https://t.co/zhSz4YpmMW
01.01.2022 EricTopol: One per thousand Americans have now died from covid-19. How does that compare with 12 other select countries with >20 million population? https://t.co/lMXLSbOlN1
