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Duterte: No letup in 'shoot to kill'
AFP, Published on 06/08/2016
» MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to maintain his "shoot to kill" order against drug dealers while in office, saying "I don't care about human rights."
MH17 families steel for legal fight on second anniversary
AFP, Published on 14/07/2016
» THE HAGUE - The families of the 298 people who died when flight MH17 was downed over Ukraine are steeling themselves for a slew of bitter legal battles, on the eve of the tragedy's second anniversary.
Betagro dumps chicken farm over labour abuses
AFP, Published on 30/06/2016
» The food giant Betagro suspended ties Wednesday with a chicken supplier after allegations of exploitation of migrant workers.
Circus elephants' retirement home promises pampered life
AFP, Published on 03/05/2016
» POLK CITY, Florida - When Mysore performed in the Ringling Brothers' traveling circus, she waltzed, she hooked her trunk onto another elephant's tail, and she stood on her hind legs in a line for a trick known as the long mount.
Rights groups condemn police powers for soldiers
AFP, Published on 05/04/2016
» BANGKOK - An order by the military govermnent giving sweeping police powers to soldiers is part of the "steady erosion of human rights protections", campaigners said on Tuesday, calling for the law to be rescinded.
Hope fades to fear for Chinese refugees
AFP, Published on 21/03/2016
» Preferring to risk death than face deportation, Dong Junming boarded a boat off Thailand's coast alongside eight fellow Chinese asylum-seekers in early March with the improbable plan of steering themselves to New Zealand.
Mutations, DNA damage in Fukushima forests - Greenpeace
AFP, Published on 04/03/2016
» TOKYO - Conservation group Greenpeace warned on Friday that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning to be seen and will remain a source of contamination for years to come.
Swedish police in Thailand over bookseller's disappearance
AFP, Published on 29/01/2016
» Swedish detectives have arrived in Thailand to look into the disappearance of a Hong Kong-based bookseller who vanished in the kingdom and later resurfaced in Chinese custody, Thai police said on Friday.
UK labour activist to face fresh defamation trial
AFP, Published on 18/01/2016
» A British activist must face a new criminal defamation trial, a Thai court ruled on Monday, the latest in a slew of cases tied to a rights report documenting labour abuses in Thailand's lucrative fruit sector.
China suspected in Hong Kong, Thailand abductions
AFP, Published on 04/01/2016
» HONG KONG - A local lawmaker said Sunday he believes Chinese security officers kidnapped five publishing company employees who have gone missing in the city, possibly because of a planned book about the former love life of President Xi Jinping.