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Reporter gets jail in libel case filed by poultry farm
Associated Press, Published on 24/12/2019
» A court on Tuesday sentenced a reporter to two years in prison for criminal libel for a comment she tweeted about a labour abuse grievance at a poultry farm.
Bangkok police shut down journalists' panel on Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 11/09/2018
» Police in Bangkok shut down a forum organised by foreign journalists to discuss whether senior military officers in Myanmar should face justice for alleged human rights abuses committed by their forces against Rohingya Muslims and other ethnic minorities.
Republicans reeling from Trump's lewd comments
Associated Press, Published on 08/10/2016
» NEW YORK: In a videotaped midnight apology, Donald Trump declared "I was wrong and I apologise" after being caught on tape making shockingly vulgar and sexually charged comments.
170 kids on their own to arrive in Indonesia
Associated Press, Published on 25/05/2015
» KUALA CANGKOI - It was just the two of them, brother and sister, out on the open ocean with hundreds of other desperate migrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims fleeing their homes in Myanmar. For nearly three months, the siblings comforted each other when rolling waves thrashed their boat, when their empty bellies ached and when they were beaten for trying to stand up to stretch their legs.
When mob was Rohingya, Myanmar's response ruthless
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2013
» BA GONE NAR, Myanmar — Noor Jaan lifted her black Islamic veil and recalled the last time she saw her husband. He was among more than 600 Rohingya Muslim men thrown in jail in this remote corner of Myanmar during a ruthless security crackdown that followed sectarian violence, and among one in 10 who did not make it out alive.