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Hong Kong's last active pro-democracy group says it will disband
Published on 29/06/2025
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats (LSD) said on Sunday that it would disband amid "immense political pressure" from a five year-long national security crackdown, leaving the China-ruled city with no formal pro-democracy opposition presence.
Aung San Suu Kyi turns 80 in Myanmar junta jail
AFP, Published on 19/06/2025
» YANGON - Myanmar’s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving a number of sentences set to last the rest of her life.
'14th floor saga' paints a bad picture
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/05/2025
» One big question still lingering in the mind of many people in this country for more than a year now is: "Was former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra really suffering from a life-threatening sickness that justified his being treated on the 14th floor of the Police General Hospital for six months without spending one day behind bars to serve his one-year prison term?"
Philippines’ Duterte bound for ICC’s Hague jail with spiritual advisers and volleyball
Published on 13/03/2025
» Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will be trading his cozy countryside home for the sterile walls of the International Criminal Court’s detention centre, following his high-profile arrest as part of a probe into his deadly war on drugs.
Death-row Frenchman flies home from Indonesia
Published on 04/02/2025
» JAKARTA - A French man on death row for drug offences left for his home country on Tuesday night, the latest in a series of foreign drug convicts repatriated from the Indonesia.
Chinese gambling kingpin ‘abused in Thai jail’
Published on 24/01/2025
» A jailed gambling tycoon fighting extradition to China received “inhumane treatment” in a Thai prison after saying he was a Chinese spy, his lawyers have told Interpol, saying they fear for his life.
Russia hands Navalny lawyers long jail terms
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» PETUSHKI, Russia - Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.
Malaysia court allows Najib to seek house arrest for 1MDB crimes
Published on 06/01/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian court allowed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to pursue a petition to serve the rest of his jail sentence in his home for crimes related to troubled wealth fund 1MDB.
Govt pushes for alcohol control laws that match 'global norms'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/12/2024
» The Alcoholic Beverage Control Bill will be submitted to parliament next month, says the Ministry of Public Health.
Rights group says Vietnam's jailing of Khmer monks violated religious freedom
Reuters, Published on 28/11/2024
» HANOI — Human rights activists accused Vietnam of infringing freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to six ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and three religious activists.