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Reuters, Published on 21/01/2018
» MANDALAY: Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by the scandal-hit Dhammakaya temple whose abbot is wanted for questioning on money-laundering allegations.
AFP, Published on 19/01/2018
» DHAKA: Hundreds of Rohingya refugees staged protests in Bangladesh Friday against plans to send them back to Myanmar, where a military crackdown last year sparked a mass exodus.
Reuters, Published on 18/01/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Top palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia on Thursday criticised the European Union for backing a ban on the use of palm oil in biofuels, with a Malaysian minister calling the move a protectionist trade barrier and a form of "crop apartheid".
Reuters, Published on 17/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators and 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist Arakan kingdom turned violent.
Published on 29/05/2017
» MANILA - Several groups staged a protest march on Monday over President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of martial law last week in the country's south to quell violence by militants linked to Islamic State.
Kyodo News, Published on 23/05/2017
» JAKARTA - The outgoing Christian governor of Jakarta, who was under arrest pending an appeal after being found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to two years in jail, surprisingly dropped his appeal request Monday, as UN experts called for his release.
Published on 19/01/2017
» KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia on Thursday pushed the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the world's largest Muslim intergovernmental organisation, to pile pressure on Myanmar to end the persecution and killing of ethnic Muslim Rohingyas in the country.