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Espionage trial of Cambodian reporters begins
Associated Press, Published on 26/07/2019
» PHNOM PENH: The espionage trial of two Cambodian journalists who formerly worked for a US government-funded radio station began on Friday, almost two years after their arrest.
May Day marchers across Asia demand better working conditions
Associated Press, Published on 01/05/2019
» SEOUL, South Korea: Thousands of trade union members and activists were marking May Day on Wednesday by marching through Asia's capitals and demanding better working conditions and expanded labour rights.
Cambodia's leader says no negotiations with opposition
Associated Press, Published on 27/03/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's leader has rejected the idea of reconciliation talks with the country's only significant opposition party, which was dissolved by court order last November.
Central figure in church abuse scandal dies
Associated Press, Published on 20/12/2017
» VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
Pope preaches forgiveness in first Mass in Myanmar
Associated Press, Published on 29/11/2017
» YANGON: Pope Francis urged Myanmar's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured, preaching a message of forgiveness Wednesday to a huge crowd in his first public Mass in the predominantly Buddhist nation.
Trump commits US to fight on in Afghanistan; no speedy exit
Associated Press, Published on 22/08/2017
» WASHINGTON -- Reversing his past calls for a speedy exit, President Donald Trump recommitted the United States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan Monday night, declaring US troops must “fight to win.”
Ex-South Korean leader Park indicted
Associated Press, Published on 17/04/2017
» SEOUL - South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted ex-President Park Geun-hye on bribery, extortion, abuse of power and other high-profile corruption charges that could potentially send her to jail for life.
Suu Kyi says national reconciliation 'unavoidable'
Associated Press, Published on 30/11/2016
» SINGAPORE - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday that national reconciliation is "unavoidably important" for the country to attract investment, but gave no specifics on how her government intends to resolve violence and discrimination against the country's minority Rohingya Muslim community.
'Tribunal' opens hearings into mass killings in Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 10/11/2015
» THE HAGUE – A “people's tribunal” opened hearings in the Netherlands Tuesday intended to publicise allegations that Indonesian authorities were responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of suspected Communists 50 years ago.
Kim dismisses top officials over Koreas standoff
Associated Press, Published on 28/08/2015
» SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed several top officials in the wake of a recent standoff with South Korea, state media reported Friday, in personnel changes that suggest that Mr Kim was holding them responsible for the confrontation that developed in a way that he did not expect.