Category: Asia and Oceania
Several hundred asylum seekers at the Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Manus Island have remained on hunger strike for the eighth day to protest against their living conditions. The hunger strike continued ...
daesh group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive $200 million in 72 hours, directly demanding the ransom Tuesday from Japan’s premier during his visit to the Middle East. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...
A leading human rights group says Saudi authorities have postponed the second round of public flogging of a blogger convicted of insulting Islam, citing medical reasons. Amnesty International says authorities delayed administering 50 lashings to ...
The UN Security Council condemned on Sunday a suicide bombing in Lebanon in the « strongest terms » after an attack on a cafe in the northern city of Tripoli killed nine and wounded 37. In the ...
Bangladesh police banned all protests in the capital from Sunday and locked main opposition leader Khaleda Zia in her office in Dhaka as clashes broke out before the first anniversary of an election her party ...
It has been ten years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean killing more than 200,000 people and devastating coastline communities from Indonesia to Somalia. Today, the world is much better prepared to ...
India has imposed a curfew in parts of the northeastern state of Assam after suspected tribal guerrillas killed at least 50 people in a series of attacks in retaliation for an offensive against them. Assam ...
Rafael Hui, Hong Kong’s former deputy leader, and Thomas Kwok, a property tycoon, have been jailed for corruption in a prominent trial that angered the city’s public. Hui, 66, was given seven and half years ...
Two years after violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, more reports have indicated the increasing rate of abuse and exploitation as people continue to escape overseas in order to seek safety. Many people have been ...
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