• In Thailand, more than a thousand people protested in the northern city of Chiang Mai against a luxury housing project near a sacred mountain. It was one of the largest protests since the military government took power in 2014. [Reuters]• Senior Australian officials denied “an extraordinary leak of top secret correspondence“ suggesting that the nation’s secretive cybersecurity agency had plans to spy on Australians. [The New York Times]• A 20-year-old Japanese actress who won a sexual-harassment settlement from a director plans to use the money to start a #MeToo group for Japan’s entertainment industry. [The New York Times]• More than 600 people were evacuated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology because of a mistaken a gas leak.

Source: New York Times April 29, 2018 20:04 UTC