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post Sep 4 2025, 11:10 PM, updated 3 months ago

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post Sep 4 2025, 11:27 PM

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kek the only app that should be banend right now is TT and OF
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QUOTE(Khamzat Chimaev @ Sep 4 2025, 11:27 PM)
kek the only app that should be banend right now is TT and OF
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post Sep 4 2025, 11:34 PM

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Govt names 8 platforms that must obtain licence
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2024/12/...-obtain-licence

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post Sep 8 2025, 11:05 PM

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Nepal Gen Z protests amid social media ban, clashes kill 19: All to know

Protesters are agitating against corruption and a ban on major social media platforms.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/six...ban-all-to-know
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QUOTE(Phoenix_KL @ Sep 8 2025, 11:05 PM)
Nepal Gen Z protests amid social media ban, clashes kill 19: All to know

Protesters are agitating against corruption and a ban on major social media platforms.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/six...ban-all-to-know
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QUOTE(Phoenix_KL @ Sep 8 2025, 11:05 PM)
Nepal Gen Z protests amid social media ban, clashes kill 19: All to know

Protesters are agitating against corruption and a ban on major social media platforms.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/six...ban-all-to-know
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post Sep 8 2025, 11:28 PM

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Nepal today is officially a Federal Democratic Republic (since 2008, when the monarchy was abolished). It has a multiparty democracy, free elections, and a constitution that protects individual rights.

🔹 What often causes confusion is that the biggest parties in Nepal call themselves communist (for example, CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist Centre). They follow Marxist–Leninist or Maoist ideologies in name, but in practice they compete in elections like any other democratic party and form coalition governments.

🔹 When the CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre merged in 2018, they briefly ruled as the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), but it was later dissolved by the Supreme Court.
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post Sep 9 2025, 09:22 AM

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Nepal lifts social media ban after 19 killed in protests
Published 2025-09-09T01:05:31.076Z
Kelly Ng BBC News

Nepal has lifted a social media ban after it led to clashes between protesters and police that have left at least 19 people dead.

Thousands of young people had forced their way into the parliament building in the capital Kathmandu on Monday, asking the government to lift its ban on 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, and to tackle corruption.

The decision to lift the ban was made after an emergency cabinet meeting late on Monday to "address the demands of Generation Z", Communications and Information Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said, according to reports.

More than 100 people were injured in the protests, which also took place in towns outside the capital city.

Social media platforms such as Instagram have millions of users in Nepal, who rely on them for entertainment, news and business.

But the government had justified its ban, implemented last week, in the name of tackling fake news, hate speech and online fraud.

Young people who took to the streets on Monday said they were also protesting against what they saw as the authoritarian attitude of the government. Many held placards with slogans including "enough is enough" and "end to corruption".

One protester, Sabana Budathoki had earlier told the BBC that the social media ban was "just the reason" they gathered.

"Rather than [the] social media ban, I think everyone's focus is on corruption," she explained, adding: "We want our country back - we came to stop corruption."

Police in Kathmandu had fired water cannons, batons and firing rubber bullets to disperse the protesters.

Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak tendered his resignation in the evening following intense criticism over his administration's use of force during the protests.

Last week, authorities ordered the blocking of 26 social media platforms for not complying with a deadline to register with Nepal's ministry of communication and information technology.

Nepal's government has argued it is not banning social media but trying to bring them in line with Nepali law.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp98n1eg443o
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QUOTE(MaybachS600 @ Sep 4 2025, 11:30 PM)
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post Sep 15 2025, 11:19 AM

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Anger at elites drives upheaval from Colombo to Kathmandu
Sri Lanka
Monday, 15 Sep 2025
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The swelling wave of public anger first swept through the island nation of Sri Lanka in 2022 and ousted the president. Two years later, it erupted in Bangladesh as protesters toppled the ruling government. Last week, public fury exploded in Nepal, forcing its prime minister to resign a day after.

Each protest movement began with a specific grievance that flared up, ending in the rejection of the government or its leaders.

In many ways, the protest movements share a common feature: disillusioned peoples’ resentment against the ruling elite and an entrenched political system they hold responsible for rampant corruption, deepening inequality and economic disparities.

Often led by young people, the protests have sparked deadly violence and sometimes left behind a political vacuum filled by unelec­ted leaders and a worsening law and order situation.

“A perception of ruling elites as being both corrupt and ineffective at delivering a plausible path forward has created a structural basis for major crises,” said Paul Staniland, a politics professor specialising in South Asia at the University of Chicago.

The youth-led protests in Nepal began as simmering discontent over the years was ignited by the government’s ban on major social media platforms.

Many were particularly angry that the children of political lea­ders seem to enjoy a lavish lifestyle, while most of the population was dealing with economic problems, rising unemployment and widespread corruption.

Protesters – who have not clearly spelled out their demands apart from rallying under the anti-­corruption call – burned the ­parliament building, presidential house, and residences of several ministers and other politicians.

Bending to mounting public pressure, prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli reversed the social media ban and quit.

It is unclear what the new govern­ment would look like and whether it will constitute the old political guard. Many Nepalis fear a familiar sequence of bargaining among the same political class they want to overthrow.

Nepal is fraught with frequent political instability and each prime minister’s tenure has lasted just a year or two since the new constitution came into effect in 2015.

The country abolished its monarchy in 2006, after a violent uprising that forced its former king to give up his authoritarian rule.

Staniland said the violence could make it “much harder to determine who should be in charge or how they should proceed”.

“The big question now in Nepal will be whether order can be restored and new, stable political dispensation forged,” he said.

Those in Nepal looking for answers about its future will not find solace in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The lack of consensus on basic reform demands like elections and anti-corruption mechanisms, and an uncertain road map for the future, have dented the democratic progress in those countries and further exacerbated the problems they face.

In Bangladesh, student-led protests started with anger against rules that limited the number of civil service jobs based on merit.

They morphed into a massive nationwide uprising in July last year that culminated in the ousting of prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Hundreds of people, mostly students, were killed in violent protests.

Hasina fled to India, and an unelected interim administration, headed by Nobel laureate Muham­mad Yunus, was installed.

He promised to restore order and hold a new election after necessary reforms.

One year on, Bangladesh remains mired in instability.

Political parties are bickering over election dates. Mob violence, political attacks on rival parties and groups, and hostility to vulnerable minority groups by religious hard-liners have surged.

In Sri Lanka, the then-prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took over the country after protesters forced the powerful Rajapaksa clan out in 2022.

The country later had a democratic transition of power after Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as president last year.

He promised to improve standards of living, clean up government and hold corrupt politicians responsible for their actions.

Almost a year later, Sri Lanka’s problems seem far from over.

Its people continue to deal with issues like economic hardships, human rights concerns and foreign-­debt default.

“There is no sign of the ideals of change desired by the protesters,” said Veeragathy Thanabala­sing­ham, a Colombo-based political expert.

Recent popular revolts have also rocked other nations in the region.

In Indonesia, deadly protests over lawmakers’ perks and the cost of living forced the country’s president to replace key econo­mic and security ministers.

In Myanmar, imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically-elected government was ousted by the military in 2021. Resistance to the military government has grown, and the country is now in the midst of a brutal civil war.

Staniland said while “most protests come and go without such dramatic results” as those seen in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, “the kindling is there for miscalculations and unexpected events to spiral”.

“I think Nepal represents the new politics of instability in South Asia,” he said. — AP

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanp...bo-to-kathmandu
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post Sep 15 2025, 11:20 AM

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