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Tycoon Jimmy Lai, 7 others handed new jail terms over Hong Kong protests
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
Lai, who is already behind bars for taking part in earlier protests, must now serve a total of 20 months after pleading guilty to organising and participating i...
Jimmy Lai among eight more Hong Kong democracy activists jailed
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
Lai, who is already behind bars for taking part in earlier protests, must now serve a total of 20 months after pleading guilty to organising an unlawful assembl...
Hong Kong activist Figo Chan says jail will make him 'a better man'
May 28, 2021 (AFP)
Chan, 25, was one of eight activists jailed on Friday for taking part in 2019's huge pro-democracy protests, the latest in a long line of democracy figures now ...
EU could hit key Belarus exports over plane 'hijacking': Borrell
May 27, 2021 (AFP)
"The heads of state and government asked us on Monday (at a summit) to propose sectoral economic sanctions, something that we are not used to doing in the EU, a...
Myanmar excluded from WHO annual meeting
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
The 74th World Health Assembly had received requests from both Myanmar's ousted civilian authorities and the military junta that seized power nearly four months...
Future sours for Hong Kong's brazen Apple Daily tabloid
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
Each day, tomorrow's date is hung up on the walls of the bustling newsroom, a constant reminder of the need to get the next edition out. But there are growing s...
UN envoy still hopes to get to Myanmar
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
During a meeting in Indonesia at the end of April with the head of the Myanmar junta, General Min Aung Hlaing "didn't say that he doesn't want to speak with me ...
NATO ambassadors to discuss Belarus 'forcible landing'
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
"Allies are consulting on the forcible landing of the Ryanair plane by Belarus and ambassadors will discuss it tomorrow," a NATO official told AFP Monday. Sever...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi defiant in first comments since coup
May 24, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in uproar since the February 1 putsch, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience movement. The military has killed more than...
Police and soldiers killed in eastern Myanmar amid heavy fighting
May 23, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in chaos since the February putsch, as the military uses lethal force to crack down on dissent. The civilian death toll has climbed to at least...
Myanmar junta threatens to dissolve Suu Kyi's party over election fraud
May 22, 2021 (AFP)
Union Election Commission chair Thein Soe said Friday the investigation into November's election result was almost complete. "What shall we do with the (Nationa...
Japan could freeze all Myanmar aid, foreign minister warns
May 21, 2021 (AFP)
Japan is a top donor to Myanmar, and has already suspended new aid after the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But Toshimitsu Motegi, speaking t...
Hong Kong court backs no-jury security law trials
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Tong Ying-kit, 24, was charged with two crimes under the new law a day after it came into effect after he allegedly drove his motorbike into a group of police o...
Myanmar town pleads for help as thousands flee fighting
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Government forces used artillery to flush out rebels from the western town of Mindat after fighting broke out on May 12, a spokesman for a local insurgent group...
UN meeting on Myanmar arms embargo postponed
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
The authors "did not have the support they expected" in order to pass the motion with a large majority of the Assembly's 193 member countries, one diplomat said...
Pope urges peace, unity in special mass for Myanmar
May 16, 2021 (AFP)
The mass inside the Vatican's Saint Peter's Basilica came after several appeals for peace in recent months by Francis, who visited Myanmar in November 2017, the...
UN General Assembly to consider call for Myanmar arms embargo
May 16, 2021 (AFP)
Unlike Security Council resolutions, General Assembly resolutions are non-binding but carry strong political significance. If an approval by consensus cannot be...
Myanmar teen describes junta's brutal treatment of detained women
May 14, 2021 (AFP)
Ma Chaw, 17, and her mother were arrested on April 14 in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, which has been blanketed with heavy security since the military s...
Crisis-hit city of Cali emblematic of Colombian anger
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
With 2.5 million inhabitants, just over half of them black, the tropical melting pot near the Latin American nation's Pacific coast is weighed down by crushing ...
Buddhist monks in Myanmar split on anti-junta movement
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
Three months of turmoil have followed the February pre-dawn raids in which soldiers arrested civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her top allies, sparking furio...
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