Human rights group estimates that up to 220,000 Tibetans will die of COVID
A new report by an international human rights group estimates that more than 220,000 Tibetans over the age of 60 could die this year from...
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Hun Sen threatens opposition, seeking to divide party ahead of July elections
Repeating what has become a pattern in recent weeks, Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out again at the main opposition Candlelight Party on Thursday in...
Prison court sentences 6 men to life for blowing up telecoms towers
A court in Yangon’s Insein prison has sentenced six men to life in prison for attacks on telecommunications towers owned by a company tied to...
Rescuers recover body of Vietnamese boy from concrete pillar
The body of 10-year-old Thai Ly Hao Nam was finally recovered Friday, 20 days after he fell down a 35-meter (115 foot) shaft at a...
U.S. launches private refugee sponsorship program
The U.S. State Department launched a new program on Thursday called the Welcome Corps that will allow Americans to privately sponsor refugees applying to move...
China could see 36,000 COVID deaths a day during Lunar New Year holiday
China could see as many as 36,000 deaths a day over the Lunar New Year holiday period as millions of people travel to their ancestral...
China’s navy stages combat exercise in South China Sea
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has held a number of live-fire drills, including a “confrontational exercise” by the Shandong aircraft carrier group, in the South...
New Zealand’s Ardern announces resignation as prime minister ahead of election
UPDATED AT 11:48 p.m. ET ON 1-18-2022 Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand politician whose empathetic leadership style inspired people worldwide, said she will step down...
Authorities refuse to let family of ill Tibetan businessman visit him in prison
The brother of an imprisoned Tibetan businessman has posted videos of himself pleading with authorities to allow relatives to visit his jailed sibling, including a...
Bangkok property leased by Nauru diplomat was base for passport forging
The home in an exclusive Bangkok residential compound popular with diplomats was rented ostensibly by the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru for its consul-general...
