What You Need To Know This Morning: Wednesday March 23

Indonesia's Jakarta shut down by taxi-driver protest

Capital's traffic stands still after drivers demonstrate violently against new ride-hailing app services such as Uber.

Gov't decides to enforce security-related legislation on March 29

March 22, 2016 (Mainichi Japan)

After the government first proposed the enactment of this legislation people across Japan, especially high school and university students began organizing against these proposed laws.  Last summer thousands of people protested outside of the Diet building in central Tokyo. Did the government listen? Of course not because it's been the unilateral wet dream of the LDP to enact such laws for 25 years.   

Why let Zuma into ANC meeting with Guptas‚ DA asks

TMG Digital | 22 March, 2016 15:27

The Gupta family own a newspaper launched in the mid 1990's called the New Age which if it was any more pro government it would be wholly own by the ANC

When will Pakistani men stop harassing women on buses?

IMRAN NABI 

When there is a cultural shift in the country that allows women to treated as equals Or when these assholes figure out they aren't as wonderful as they believe themselves to be.

The 10 cities with the worst air pollution in the world have air that's up to 15 times dirtier than what is considered healthy

• Lydia Ramsey

According to American conservatives air pollution like climate change is all just a hoax perpetrated to stifle capitalism 

Can a Russian indigenous group be a 'foreign agent'? The Kremlin thinks so.

The targeting of an organization dedicated to protecting indigenous culture is just the latest abuse of a law meant to root out foreign actors in Russian politics.

By Fred Weir, Correspondent

Of it can when one lives in a world of paranoia, racism, xenophobia and fear. And that's just Vladimir Putin