Foreign detainees arrive home after Myanmar prisoner amnesty
Australian economist Sean Turnell and Japanese journalist Toru Kubota arrived home Friday after an amnesty by the Myanmar junta for thousands of prisoners including four...
Month : November 2022
China sentences mother of Uyghur Dutch airman to 15 years for visiting him abroad
Chinese authorities have sentenced the mother and sister-in-law of an ethnic Uyghur member of the Dutch air force to 15 years in prison on charges...
Top US general: China likely won’t invade Taiwan soon
China’s military is not yet capable of invading Taiwan, and any attempts to do so in the near future would be an error on par...
Xi confronts Trudeau on sidelines of G20 over alleged media leaks
Chinese leader Xi Jinping confronted Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit on Wednesday over alleged leaks about...
Myanmar junta to release 4 foreign prisoners as part of major amnesty
UPDATED AT 01:19 A.M. ET ON 11-17-2022 Myanmar’s junta says it is releasing four foreigners from prison, including a former British ambassador and an Australian...
Nearly 1.7 million new refugees of conflict in Myanmar since coup
Nearly 1.7 million people have been displaced by conflict in Myanmar since last year’s military coup, bringing the total number of refugees who have fled...
ASEAN’s strongest statement to date on Myanmar falls short, opposition says
A joint statement issued last week by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the strongest to date on resolving member state Myanmar’s political crisis,...
Military jets bomb a mine in Kayin State, killing 3 civilians
A junta air attack on a mine near the Thai-Myanmar border left three people dead. The attack happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning,...
Conflict in Europe overshadows G-20 in Bali as leaders condemn missile strikes
The Indonesian president led world leaders in a ceremonial planting of mangroves Wednesday to draw attention to the global climate crisis, but the final day...
Fed up with COVID lockdowns, migrant workers in Guangzhou break through barriers
Migrat workers whose movements have been restricted by rolling lockdowns and compulsory COVID-19 testing under China’s strict zero-COVID policy have taken to the streets of...
