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07 December 2023
Nepal detains 12 for illegal recruitment of citizens in Russian army
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine suspects on human trafficking charges for allegedly luring 88 people to Cambodia to toil in online scam syndicates. Photo: AFP
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03 September 2022
Taiwan indicts nine over Cambodia human...
Taiwanese prosecutors Friday indicted nine suspects on human trafficking charges for...
Rosmah Mansor (C), the wife of the jailed former prime minister Najib Razak, arrives for the verdict in her corruption trial at the high court in Kuala Lumpur on September 1, 2022. Photo: Mohd RASFAN / AFP
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02 September 2022
Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysia's ex-leader...
Rosmah Mansor, the wife of Malaysia's ex-premier Najib Razak, was found guilty of graft...
Lawyer Jessica Finelle (L) walks with her client Cambodian opponent in exile and leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy (L), as they arrive at the court house accused in a defamation lawsuit filed by Cambodia's prime minister, in Paris on September 1, 2022. Photo: AFP
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02 September 2022
Cambodian dissident fights defamation claims at...
Veteran Cambodian opposition figure Sam Rainsy went on trial in France on Thursday in...
This undated handout image released by The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation on May 24, 2022, shows SWAT team personnel engaged in an apparent anti-escape or anti-riot drill at the Tekes County Detention Centre in the Xinjiang Region of western China in February 2018. Photo: AFP
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01 September 2022
UN report lists litany of rights abuses in China...
The United Nations released a bombshell report late Wednesday into serious human rights...
A Taiwanese military outpost on Shihyu islet is seen past anti-landing spikes placed along the coast of Lieyu islet on Taiwan's Kinmen islands, which lie just 3.2 kms (two miles) from the mainland China coast, on August 10, 2022. Photo: Sam Yeh/AFP
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31 August 2022
Taiwan, China trade barbs over island drone...
Taipei and Beijing have traded barbs over a recent string of drone sorties from the...
In this handout image courtesy of the US Navy taken on August 28, 2022 the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the East China Sea in the Taiwan Strait during routine underway operations. Photo: AFP/Justin Stack/US Navy
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29 August 2022
Two US Navy warships transit through Taiwan...
Two United States warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the American navy...
A general view of flooding pictured in Mingora a town in the Pakistan's northern Swat Valley following heavy monsoon rainfall on August 27, 2022. Photo: AFP
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28 August 2022
Pakistan orders thousands to evacuate near flood-...
Thousands of people living near flood-swollen rivers in Pakistan's north were ordered to...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Photo: AFP
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28 August 2022
Assange case raises media freedom concerns: UN...
UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Saturday that the potential extradition and...
Rohingya refugees walk on a dirt road during a protest held to mark the five year anniversary of the mass migration of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at a makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Ukhiya, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh, 25 August 2022. Photo: EPA
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28 August 2022
Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network calls for...
On the fifth anniversary of the start of the Myanmar military’s operation against the...
Fishermen sit in their boats near U Pain (U Bein) Bridge during the sunset time in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
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27 August 2022
UN high-seas biodiversity treaty struggles to...
A two-week negotiating session on a treaty to protect the high seas wraps up Friday, with...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered nationwide lockdowns and mobilized troops to tackle the pandemic since the country first disclosed the COVID-19 outbreak last week. Photo: EPA
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27 August 2022
North Korea says new fever cases were flu, not...
North Korea said Friday that the fever cases it detected earlier this week were found to...
Rohingya refugees take part in a protest held to mark the five year anniversary of the mass migration of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at a makeshift camp in Kutubpalang, Ukhiya, Cox Bazar district, Bangladesh, 25 August 2022. Photo: EPA
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27 August 2022
Western embassies mark 5th anniversary of Myanmar...
Western embassies in Myanmar this week issued a joint statement on the 5th anniversary of...

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