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Amnesty wants impartial probe of Indonesia police violence
Associated Press, Published on 26/06/2019
» JAKARTA: Amnesty International is calling for an independent investigation into allegations of police brutality and unlawful killings during post-election riots in the Indonesian capital last month.
Malaysia says revised China deal shows costs were inflated
Associated Press, Published on 15/04/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's prime minister said Monday a Chinese company building a rail link across the Southeast Asian nation will jointly help to manage and operate the network, part of revised deal that will get the stalled project off the ground at a lower cost and ease strained relations.
Report finds gaps in 2015 probe of mass graves in Malaysia
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: A new human rights report has found gaps in the investigation and possible obstruction of justice involving Malaysia's 2015 discovery of mass graves believed to be of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis held in trafficking camps in a jungle area on its border with Thailand.
Malaysia's civil aviation chief quits over Flight 370 lapses
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's civil aviation chief said Tuesday he has resigned to take responsibility after an independent investigative report highlighted shortcomings in the air traffic control centre during Flight 370's disappearance four years ago.
Indonesia says 1 soldier killed in Papua clash
Associated Press, Published on 02/04/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesia says one solider has been killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and Papuan independence fighters near the US-owned Grasberg copper mine in the country's east.
50 years ago, My Lai massacre shamed US military
Associated Press, Published on 15/03/2018
» MY LAI, Vietnam: The shudder of artillery fire woke the boy at 5.30am. Three American soldiers appeared at his family's home a couple of hours later and forced the mother and five children into their bomb shelter, a structure most every Vietnamese home had during the war, to keep them safe.
China 'unhappy' but calm over US carrier visit to Vietnam
Associated Press, Published on 07/03/2018
» BEIJING: Beijing is unhappy with the first visit by a US aircraft carrier to a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War and is monitoring developments, a Communist Party newspaper said Wednesday.
US says Myanmar makes life for Rohingya ‘a death sentence’
Associated Press, Published on 14/02/2018
» UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador Nikki Haley denounced Myanmar’s government Tuesday for continuing to make life for Rohingya Muslims “a death sentence”, citing the reporting of mass graves by The Associated Press and other news organisations.
28 Russians have Olympic doping bans lifted
Associated Press, Published on 01/02/2018
» MOSCOW: Twenty-eight Russian athletes had their Olympic doping bans overturned Thursday, throwing the International Olympic Committee's policy on the country into turmoil.
US calls for release of missing Chinese bookseller
Associated Press, Published on 28/01/2018
» BEIJING: President Donald Trump's administration has joined European governments in urging China to release a Swedish citizen who sold gossipy books about Chinese leaders.