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- The outgoing president of the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, David Panuelo, accused China of spying and attempting to bribe local politicians to bring his country to Beijing's side. Mr Panuelo's claims were contained in a letter to congress last week.
- As China charms Latin America, it has continued to assert itself on the other side of the world.
- Ms Tsai's visit will include a meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. She had met Mr McCarthy's predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, in Taipei last year to Beijing's fury.
- Ms Castro's move also comes ahead of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's planned trip to its Central American allies with a stopover in the US next month - a move that will likely increase friction between Washington and Beijing.
- "We ask Honduras to carefully consider and do not fall into China's trap and make the wrong decision to damage the long-term friendship between Taiwan and Honduras," the island's foreign ministry said in a statement.
- Weeks before Ms Castro's announcement, her government said it was negotiating with China to build a hydroelectric dam. Beijing had lent Honduras $300m (Ā£246m) for a similar project in 2021.
- The Honduran president did not specifically say if relations with Taiwan would be cut. However in January 2022, she said she hoped to keep those ties.
- Ms Castro, who assumed office in 2021, said she had instructed her foreign minister to pursue official relations with China, fulfilling one of her campaign pledges.
- Taiwan has lost eight diplomatic allies since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen was elected as president.
- China has sought to expand its influence around the world as its leader, Xi Jinping, consolidates power back home while reviving the economy from the bruising zero-Covid policy.
- It will also widen Beijing's foothold in a region that has historically sided with its rival Washington.
- Should Honduras switch sides to China, Taiwan would be recognised by just 13 governments.
- China has long tried to isolate Taiwan and prohibits its partners from keeping ties with the island which it considers part of its territory.
- Taiwan promptly cautioned Honduras against falling into China's "trap".
- Honduran President Xiomara Castro said the pivot aims to expand foreign engagements.
- "At all times during a separation, young people have access to visits and professional support services, phone calls, education material, meal routines and recreational activities."
- Youth detention centres were "complex and difficult environments, and practices used in the centres are designed to ensure the safety of staff and young people at all times," the spokesperson said.
- In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Queensland's Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs said solitary confinement or "separations" were only used as a last resort.
- Rates of juvenile incarceration are also high, with Indigenous children accounting for some 70% of detainees across most of Queensland, and over 90% in the state's north.
- Overcrowded facilities mean children and minors often have to be housed in adult prisons known as watch houses. Most juvenile detainees are being held on remand.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous Australians in 2021, the Queensland Statisticians Office says.
- Youth detention centres 'complex and difficult'
- Mr McDougall urged the state government to "double down" on measures to keep children in school and stop them going down "the path of criminalisation".
- "My concern is by increasing the pressure on the system, we risk normalising the mistreatment of children".
- "Given the laws that are [being] passed in Queensland, which are clearly intended to incarcerate more children, it becomes even more important that the government urgently develops a coherent plan for preventing children coming within the criminal justice system, " he said.
- "Unfortunately, I don't think they're isolated cases," he told the BBC.
- He warned that changes to the law would only make the situation worse, and that immediate steps were needed to stop children being placed in isolation.
- State Human Rights Commissioner Scott McDougall said the recent cases may have breached Queensland's Human Rights Act, which states all prisoners should have access to fresh air and exercise for a minimum of two hours a day.
- Queensland is currently debating new laws which would criminalise bail breaches by minors - a change which will cause the youth prison population to increase dramatically, experts warn.
- In February, it emerged that another 13-year-old Queensland boy with developmental disabilities spent 78 days confined to a cell for 20 hours per day.
- A separate recent case also raised human rights concerns over the Queensland's youth justice system, which is currently undergoing reform.
- Jack's period of detention included six days being held in adult prisons. He was released last week with a verbal reprimand.
- "You would hope not, but maybe it's more common than we thought."
- "If he's being locked in because there's staff shortages, and Cleveland detention centre has 80 or more kids in at any one time, one can only assume that other kids are in the same circumstance.
- Mr Grau said he didn't know why Jack spent so long in isolation, but suspected it was due to staff shortages at the prison.
- "He was 13, he'd been in court once before. So even for this offending, he was never going to get a period of incarceration, in my view," he said.
- Describing his detention as "extraordinary and cruel", Mr Grau said Jack had "no serious criminal history".
- He flooded his cell with water from the toilet in desperation at his situation, and after being denied drinking water,
- Jack was being held on remand on charges relating to a fight with another 13-year-old boy, at the detention centre some 1,300km north of Brisbane.
- 'No serious criminal history'
- Queensland's human rights chief says the case may have broken state laws.
- He is understood to have spent 22 consecutive days in isolation.
- The boy - referred to as "Jack" - was released on probation last week after 60 days in custody at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville.
- South Korea is home to other major microprocessor manufacturers such as SK Hynix.
- China has frequently called the US a "tech hegemony" in response to export controls imposed by Washington.
- The ministry said the Chips Act "could deepen business uncertainties, violate companies' management and technology rights as well as make the United States less attractive as an investment option".
- Around the same time, South Korea's trade ministry raised concerns over the US policy on semiconductors.