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North Korea tells South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to ‘shut his mouth’ after aid offer

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on August 19, 2022, dismissed the possibility of face-to-face talks with the South. She also rejected Seoul’s offer of economic assistance in return for denuclearisation as the “height of absurdity”. Her statement comes days after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol offered an “audacious” aid plan…

Tigers, bear rescued from Phuket zoo shut down by Thailand’s pandemic tourist slump

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Three tigers and a large Asiatic black bear were the last animals to be rescued from a zoo on the Thai resort island of Phuket on June 7, 2022. The Phuket Zoo was forced to shut its doors in late 2021 after the attraction fell victim to financial pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic, which severely cut…

How Covid shut down Shanghai

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020, Shanghai had enjoyed huge success in balancing infection control and quality of life. Mass screening and lockdowns were a rare sight in China’s most populous city. But that success story came to an abrupt end when the Omicron variant outpaced the city’s responses in March 2022. Support us: https://subscribe.scmp.com…

Russian authorities shut down leading human rights group – BBC News

Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the closure of Memorial, the country’s most prominent human rights group, which chronicled Stalin-era purges and was a symbol of democratic change after the fall of the Soviet Union. The ban follows a wider crackdown on opposition politics and independent media. Prosecutors had accused Memorial of failing to indicate in its publications that the group received funds from overseas. Fiona…

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