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Myanmar junta threatens pot-banging protesters with treason
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
The February 1 coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government and sent the Southeast Asian country into turmoil, with the economy in freefall and nearly 1,500 civili...
Iraq's top court upholds re-election of parliament speaker
Jan 25, 2022 (AFP)
Hours later, rockets fell some 500 metres (1,640 feet) from Halbussi's home in the Gurma district of Anbar province, in what a security source told AFP was an a...
Myanmar sentences lawmaker from Suu Kyi's party to death: statement
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
Phyo Zeyar Thaw, a member of the National League for Democracy arrested in November, was "sentenced to the death penalty today under anti-terrorism act", the ju...
Three arrested at Myanmar media outlet: editor
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
The military has squeezed the press since taking power in a coup last year, arresting dozens of journalists critical of its crackdown, which has killed more tha...
No more politics for Hong Kong barristers, As EU calls for sanctions
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
The Hong Kong Bar Association has been a vocal defender of human rights and its previous leader had criticised a Beijing-imposed national security law, drawing ...
Myanmar anti-coup fighters claim attack in state capital
Jan 19, 2022 (AFP)
Intense clashes between junta troops and "People's Defence Force" fighters have ravaged the capital of Kayah state in recent days, with the military calling in ...
Indonesia passes law paving way for capital's move to Borneo
Jan 18, 2022 (AFP)
The House of Representatives vote provides the legal framework for the move, which was first tipped by President Joko Widodo in April 2019, citing rising sea le...
Who's next? Hong Kong media fearful after arrests, shutdowns
Jan 14, 2022 (AFP)
China's crackdown on dissent has silenced or jailed most Hong Kong democracy activists and has now begun to focus on the press. Chan knew he was a target as bot...
Iraq court suspends re-elected parliamentary speaker
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
The Federal Supreme Court decided "to suspend the work" of influential Sunni MP Mohammed al-Halbussi on a temporary basis, while it investigates the process of ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi hit with new convictions, jail term
Jan 10, 2022 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate has been detained since February 1 when her government was forced out in an early morning coup, ending Myanmar's short-lived experiment with ...
Can a fractured French Left rally troops against Macron?
Jan 07, 2022 (AFP)
With under 100 days to go before the vote, the country's multiple leftwing parties are facing near-certain elimination in the first round -- unless they heed ca...
Cambodian prime minister visits coup-hit Myanmar
Jan 07, 2022 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in chaos since the February 1 coup which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government and ended the country's decade-long dalliance with democ...
Protesters storm mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
Police fired stun grenades and tear gas at a crowd of several thousand protesters, some armed with batons and shields seized from police, but were unable to pre...
Myanmar has 'ingredients for civil war': ASEAN chair
Jan 05, 2022 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in chaos since a coup last year, with more than 1,400 people killed in a crackdown on dissent by security forces, according to a local monitori...
Hong Kong activist Chow jailed for second Tiananmen 'incitement'
Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)
Chow, a 36-year-old lawyer who has represented herself at multiple court hearings with often fiery denunciations from the dock, is a former leader of the Hong K...
Third Hong Kong news company shutters as media fears grow
Jan 03, 2022 (AFP)
One of the most popular news websites in Hong Kong with more than 800,000 social media followers, CitizenNews is the third media company to stop publishing as B...
Hong Kong 'patriots only' lawmakers swear loyalty oath
Jan 03, 2022 (AFP)
In a ceremony laden with symbolism reflecting Hong Kong's new political realities, 90 lawmakers took their oaths in the chamber where the city's traditional emb...
Hong Kong independent news outlet shuts down to 'ensure safety'
Jan 02, 2022 (AFP)
CitizenNews, a crowd-funded non-partisan platform founded in 2017 by a group of veteran journalists, is one of the most popular online news outlets in Hong Kong...
Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi aides for sedition
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
The sentence, passed in a special court inside Yangon's Insein prison, is the latest blow struck in the military authorities' legal campaign against Suu Kyi's N...
Hong Kong journalists charged with conspiracy to publish 'seditious' conten
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
China has tightened its control of Hong Kong since massive and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests engulfed the city in 2019, and suppression of the local ...
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