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Police arrest former opposition councilor amid call to boycott poll

Hong Kong police have arrested a former pro-democracy member of the city's District Council and prison welfare activist -- amid…

1 year ago

Southeast Asia’s mounting food insecurity

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), global rice prices in August were 31% higher than the…

1 year ago

Million coal workers at risk: China, India face biggest cuts by 2050

In the bustling hot city of Siliguri in northeast India, Jitendar Kumar spends his days breaking up and shifting cinder…

1 year ago

Blast at Myanmar camp sounded like it came from the ‘world wars’

A farmer who lost his wife, three children and his mother when a bomb was dropped on his Kachin state…

1 year ago

Taiwanese AI taken down after it repeats Chinese government line

A top-level research institute in the democratic island of Taiwan has withdrawn a Chinese-language AI chat program after it started…

1 year ago

Myanmar national dies in Wa state after being sold into scam gang

A man is dead after being sold to a money-laundering gang in United Wa State Army territory, family members told…

1 year ago

Hamas fighters may be using North Korean weapons, experts say

Experts say that Hamas militants may be using North Korean weapons after footage emerged of a fighter from the Palestinian…

1 year ago

‘Eliticide’ as China jails Uyghur intellectuals to erase culture

Over a fortnight, a Uyghur folklorist missing since 2017 was revealed to be serving a life prison for “separatism,” while…

1 year ago

Myanmar company director and regional officials ‘arrested in China’

Eleven businessmen from Myanmar’s Shan state were reportedly arrested while visiting China’s Yunnan province over the weekend, according to traders…

1 year ago

Conflict in Myanmar’s Shan state drives 1,000 civilians into China

Fighting between junta troops and the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, has driven more than 1,000 people from…

1 year ago

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