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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.
Thai court finds British labour activist defamed fruit firm
Associated Press, Published on 26/03/2018
» A court in Bangkok has ordered a British labour rights activist to pay 10 million baht in damages to a company that filed a civil defamation suit after he helped expose alleged human rights violations at its factory.
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.
ILO finds progress in fixing Thai fishing industry abuses
Associated Press, Published on 07/03/2018
» A survey of working conditions in Thailand's fishing and seafood industry conducted by the UN's International Labour Organisation has found that new regulations resulted in progress in some areas, including less physical violence, but problems such as unfair pay and deception in contracting persist.
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.
Trial in Kim Jong Nam's murder resumes in Malaysia
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2018
» SHAH ALAM, Malaysia: Malaysia's high-profile trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader resumed Monday after a seven-week recess, with witnesses taking the stand to verify the authenticity of security camera footages capturing the attack.
Polanski will not be charged after molestation report
Associated Press, Published on 09/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles prosecutors will not bring criminal charges against Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski after a woman said he molested her in 1975 - when she was 10 years old - because the allegations are too old.