As governments across South-East Asia crimp online freedoms, the region’s healthiest democracy might have been expected to resist the trend.
Not so. President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua is using a new law to detain more of his potential adversaries in November’s election—and is coming under international pressure. And how Jordan’s gas-delivery-truck
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