Category: Asia

Tue 23 Apr 2019: Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were accused of breaking Official Secrets Act for reporting on Rohingya crisis The highest court of Myanmar has denied the final appeal of the two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for their reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, upholding the seven-year prison sentence and dashing […]

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Sat 20 Apr 2019: India’s Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been accused of sexual harassment by a former Supreme Court employee. The 35-year-old woman has filed an affidavit alleging two instances of misconduct in October last year, shortly after Mr Gogoi was appointed. She says her family was victimised after she refused the advances. A […]

Sat 20 Apr 2019: BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Boonrod, the dog rescued this week from the middle of the Gulf of Thailand, can now show off his own Facebook page with more than 6,000 followers. Launched on Friday (April 19), the page Boonrod Gulf of Thailand dog, has Facebook user Vitisak Payalaw serving […]

Sat 20 Apr 2019: MUMBAI (Reuters) – A spokeswoman for India’s main opposition Congress party quit on Friday and joined a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, complaining that misbehaviour towards her by male Congress members was ignored. The resignation of Priyanka Chaturvedi, a regular on prime-time TV debates, is an embarrassing […]

Sat 20 Apr 2019: KABUL (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked the communications ministry in the center of Kabul on Saturday, interrupting months of relative calm in the Afghan capital and underlining security threats that have continued despite efforts to open peace talks with the Taliban. Saturday’s attack opened shortly before midday with an explosion at the […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: The man had become confused by the symbols on the electronic voting machine An Indian man cut off his index finger on Thursday after mistakenly voting for the wrong party in the country’s national election. Pawan Kumar has gone viral after two videos posted on social media showed his index finger […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Several Roman Catholic devotees were nailed to wooden crosses in a gory Good Friday ritual in the Philippines, and others flogged themselves or took part in religious plays to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering. Four men and a woman, some wearing crowns of twigs, were escorted […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school’s principal. Nusrat Jahan Rafi told her family she was lured to the roof […]

Fri 19 Apr 2019: The meal cost 6 yuan (68p) but the father only had 5 yuan (57p) on him He decided to leave daughter at the eatery and pick her up the next day Restaurant owner called police after suspecting the child had been abandoned A desperate Chinese father who didn’t have enough money […]