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As skyrocketing food prices chew through South Koreans' salaries, is shrinkflation crackdown purely a 'political stunt'?

To slyly raise prices without alerting customers, manufacturers have been shrinking the size of their products amid South Korea’s skyrocketing food inflation – but regulators have caught wind.

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Lecturers: Reject sellout contract! Strike to halt crackdown against student protests! Secure a living wage, pay parity and job security at all University of Michigan campuses!

The Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan call on members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization to vote “No” on the sellout contract announced by the LEO leadership and organize a strike to halt the repression of peaceful student protests at U-M and nationwide against US/Israeli genocide in Gaza.

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Lawmakers Plan Extensive Crackdown on Campus Antisemitism, Threatening Funding

House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP lawmakers plan to crack down on campus antisemitism, threatening federal funding for non-compliant institutions. Read to learn more.

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Gaza war protest: Arafat condemns crackdown on US students

Mohammad Ali Arafat, state minister for information and broadcasting, today condemned the police crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters at various US campuses.

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Three takeaways about the state of Chinese tech in the US

As Chinese consumer tech giants retreat from the global spotlight, a batch of climate tech companies have become the new stars.

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Why China's regulators are softening on its tech sector

Amid an economic downturn, the government grows worried of setting off panicked market overreactions with too much regulation.

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Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now

The Chinese government may have been tough on consumer tech platforms, but its AI regulations are intentionally lax to keep the domestic industry growing, says a Hong Kong professor.

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Malaysia's revolving door of corruption, persecution hurts support for Anwar's crackdown

A Malaysian public that’s accustomed to politics shaping prosecutions largely sees PM Anwar Ibrahim following in the footsteps of his predecessors, while his allies walk free.

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Russia: Journalists Antonina Favorskaya and Olga Komleva detained on charges of extremism

Women journalists Antonina Favorskaya, known for her independent reporting, and Olga Komleva, a dedicated correspondent for RusNews, were arrested in March on charges of “extremism” linked to the coverage of the trials of the Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny. If convicted, they will face up to six years in prison. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ), together with their affiliate the Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU), express deep concern over the unjust detention of Favorskaya and Komleva, in the context of a wider crackdown in Russia on press freedom.

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Crackdown on distracted driving to start April 1 in Minnesota

The Albert Lea Police Department and Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office say they will join in.

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