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UN member states criticize China over Uyghurs at Human Rights Council session

Nearly 50 United Nations member states on Wednesday issued a joint statement criticizing China’s atrocities against Uyghurs and calling on…

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Russia, Ukraine turn Indonesia into diplomatic battlefield

The Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors have turned Indonesia – this year’s G20 chair – into a diplomatic battlefield by holding…

2 years ago

Starvation becomes a side effect of North Korea’s struggle to contain COVID

The increase of COVID-19 cases in North Korea is creating knock-on hardships for the families of patients, as the loss…

2 years ago

Henan rural bank customers curbed by COVID-19 app as they protest frozen accounts

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Henan have been using the COVID-19 Health Code app to control the movements…

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Laos to sell $350 million in high-interest bonds to combat inflation

The Lao government is so desperate for cash that it is offering about U.S. $340 million in bonds with a…

2 years ago

Interview: ‘I am a powerless Pakistani citizen’ who ‘raised my voice for you’

Muhammad Usman Asad, a 22-year-old Pakistani student at the National University of Sciences & Technology in Islamabad, donned a doppa…

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China blocks Tibetans offering help to earthquake survivors in Sichuan

Chinese authorities in an earthquake-hit region of Sichuan are telling Tibetans offering support to survivors to return home, saying their…

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New Hong Kong school history textbooks say the city ‘never was a British colony’

A nationalistic program of Moral, Civic and National Education brought in to replace Liberal Studies in Hong Kong's primary and…

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More than 40 anti-regime protesters arrested in Yangon in two days

Myanmar’s military junta is targeting younger protesters in the country’s business capital, Yangon, arresting more than 40 men and women…

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Membership of a political party ‘cannot be grounds for arrest’ UN group says

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has criticized the case against a Vietnamese Australian facing a 12-year…

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