"The bright yellow Causeway Link (CW) buses that move thousands of people across Johor and Singapore daily are known for the smiley faces plastered on their facade, but their origin story wasn’t quite as cheery."

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/yellow-smiley-buses-a-causeway-fixture-as-malaysian-firm-rides-to-a-public-listing

#Singapore #Malaysia #Transport #Borders #Causeway #Buses

The Thickness of Externalized EU-ropean #Borders in the Central #Mediterranean Region
Vendredi 13 juin 2025 10h à 12h #webinar Moebius
https://facdedroit.univ-lyon3.fr/seminaire-projet-de-recherche-moebius-souverainete-dans-les-frontieres-ordonnancement-des-migrations-en-europe-entre-usages-et-ethique

@notes
Worst/best quote:
<<Claytor says that although law enforcement agencies are currently focusing on immigrants, Black people will almost certainly be caught up in the churn.>>

#TheChurn
#USPol
#StopAndFrisk
#Racism
#Police
#Classism
#Xenophobia
#CrueltyIsThePoint
#FearMongering
#migration
#borders

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Russia losing battlefield edge in war against Ukraine, WP reports — It’s terrorism: Russia launches one of the heaviest strikes on Kyiv during full-scale war — Russia’s continued aggression has a simple explanation: it hasn’t faced enough pressure to stop — ‘Shoot them on the spot’ — Ukraine’s military intel records over 150 cases of Russia executing POWs … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-25-2025/

🇺🇦 UKRAINE
🔴 Ex-Commander: Return to 2022 Borders Is Unrealistic

🔸 Ex-army chief Zaluzhnyi: Ukraine should abandon hopes of restoring 1991 or 2022 lines.
🔸 Now ambassador in London, he warned Kyiv forum: “No one here still believes in miracles, I hope.”
🔸 Russia fights a war of attrition; Ukraine’s resources are limited.
🔸 Zaluzhnyi was dismissed in Feb 2024 after clashes with Zelensky.

#Ukraine #Zaluzhnyi #Russia #War #Borders #Zelensky #Kyiv #Diplomacy

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2025/04/22/world-economic-outlook-april-2025?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#Migration has always been a key feature of #humanity (or for that matter all living creatures). Artificial #borders are recent. With the spread of #democracy came the fear of who is allowed to #vote. 🤷‍♂️

www.imf.org/en/Publicati... #Migration has always been a key feature of #humanity (or for that matter all living creatures). Artificial #borders are recent. With the spread of #democracy came the fear of who is allowed to #vote. 🤷‍♂️

UN's #WorldCourt (#ICJ) rules that #Gabon has to give three tiny #islands it seized in 1972 back to #EquatorialGuinea. Having the islands implies rights to surrounding oil-rich seabed, though the actual sea #borders around them are unsettled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgq204n1vxo

#geography #sovereignty #Africa #WestAfrica #AtlanticOcean #internationallaw @geography @geopolitics

📣 ✍️ 💸 Seb bikes against passport apartheid, against borders
With his Dutch passport he can travel 121 countries without Visa. He biked to Damascus where he arrived today. 👉 With a Syrian passport you can travel to only 6 countries. Donate for MiGreat and No Name Kitchen
Read all ► https://www.sebbiebikes.org/
#donate #sebbiebikes against #borders #passportdiscriminatie #nobordersnonations #migreat #nonamekitchen #passportapartheid #visa #travel #biking