In post-Hasina Bangladesh, Awami League faces uncertain future …
Oct 28, 2024 · Hasnat Abdullah, coordinator of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, which had spearheaded the anti-Hasina uprising, called for the tribunal to put party members on trial.He also said Awami must be banned. Ahmed, the analyst, expects party leaders to remain and to organize online.
Rodrigo Duterte on drug war: ‘I did what I had to do’
Oct 28, 2024 · Aside from the Senate, the House of Representatives has also been investigating the previous administration’s drug war. Eight police officers have so far been prosecuted for killings in Duterte’s drug war, and in none of those cases did the former president’s lawyers offer any help.. The killings under the Duterte administration are currently the focus of an International Criminal Court ...
Buildings ‘pancaked’ in Vanuatu as 7.3 magnitude quake hits off …
Dec 17, 2024 · A strong 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu on Tuesday, U.S. geologists said, severely damaging a number of buildings in the capital, crushing cars and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. Witnesses described a “violent shake” and widespread damage to Port Vila, located ...
EXPLAINED: Al-Arqam, the Malaysian sect implicated in a child …
Sep 13, 2024 · Al-Arqam, a banned Islamic sect in Malaysia, is in the spotlight again after 402 children – including some as young as 1 – were rescued from welfare homes during police raids on Sept. 11. Many of these minors are believed to have been trafficked as well as physically and sexually abused, authorities said. At least 159 people …
Myanmar rebels capture last military post on Bangladesh border
Dec 9, 2024 · Ethnic minority insurgents have captured the last Myanmar military position on the border with Bangladesh after its defenders, including pro-junta militiamen from the mostly Muslim Rohingya community, abandoned the post and fled, the rebel group and residents said.
Landowners fear more killings despite PNG ‘state of emergency’ …
Sep 18, 2024 · Landowners have warned they fear further deaths and violence at the Porgera gold mine if the Papua New Guinea government does not relocate them as part of a state of emergency declared on Wednesday.
PNG expands Enga ‘state of emergency’ after 6 die in revenge killing
Oct 23, 2024 · A PNG Defense Force soldier stands guard over the victims of a revenge shooting, pictured at Wabag General Hospital, Papua New Guinea, on Oct. 22, 2024.
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Indonesia’s human rights situation: Key takeaways from new report. Civil, political liberties declined in Indonesia, with democratic institutions weakened and corruption rising, Human Rights Watch said.
Inside Southeast Asia’s shuttered nuclear power plant west of …
Nov 13, 2024 · The coconut fronds sway to a steady breeze from the South China Sea at the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) compound west of the Philippine capital Manila – Southeast Asia’s only nuclear facility that has been shuttered for four decades.
US missile test intercepts, downs ballistic target from Guam air base
Dec 10, 2024 · Updated at 9:55 a.m. ET on 2024-12-11. The U.S. military downed a ballistic target for the first time from Guam in a missile test, which Pentagon officials called a “critical milestone” in protecting the western Pacific from potential threats.