Singapore is trying to free a shipment of armored troop carriers detained in Hong Kong as they were being shipped home from overseas, Singapore’s defense ministry said on Thursday, and Hong Kong authorities said …
By Beh Lih Yi KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday it was working with Malaysia on a pilot scheme to allow refugees from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority …
More than 10,500 state employees have been dismissed over suspected links with the Kurdish PKK militant group, Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said on Thursday in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk. Turkey is …
AKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Hundreds of Indonesians, angered over the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, protested Thursday outside the Myanmar Embassy in the Indonesian capital. Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono said at least …
Home Ministry bans 21 publications ranging in topic from religion to homosexuality PUTRAJAYA: The Home Ministry has banned 21 publications deemed to contain elements which could “adversely affect public order and thinking.” The books …
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s military said it lost contact Thursday with an army helicopter carrying four soldiers in Indonesia’s part of Borneo. Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Sabrar Fadhilah said the Bell 412 EP …
Myanmar wants ethnic cleansing of Rohingya – UN official Media captionSoldiers are “killing men, slaughtering children, raping women”, says John McKissick of the UN refugee agency in Bangladesh Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing …
They come by the thousands. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh. They’re fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they …
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh More Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighboring Bangladesh this week, with some feared to have drowned after a boat sank during a bid to flee violence that has killed at …
Uzbekistan’s positive outlook is predicated on significant investment growth and a gradual recovery of commodities prices which are expected to edge up export revenues. With prospects for recovery in the external environment being sluggish, …
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