Asia

Minh Phú Seafood to remove non-core businesses to ease foreign ownership   Update: November, 12/2018 – 18:00 i   Due to the overloaded cold warehouse situation in the US, the Minh

Turtle eggs taken from island to island   Update: November, 11/2018 – 09:00   VIETNAM NEWSTHE NATIONAL ENGLISH DAILY    A staff of the Chàm Island Marine Protected Area releases a

Prime Minister meets with Cuban President of Council of State     Update: November, 10/2018 – 10:25   Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc receives President of the Council of State and

Koreas take major steps towards peace North Korean leader Kim Jon Un promised to take down the country’s main nuclear complex to ‘eliminate the danger of war’ South Korean President

        Burma Campaign UK 3 Sep at 17:06       Dear Friend Being a journalist is dangerous in Burma today. Both the military and Aung San

Burma Campaign UK          <info@burmacampaign.org.uk> 27 Aug at 10:25           Dear Friend A UN report published today has said Burma must be investigated

  Myanmar violated UN child rights pact in Rohingya crackdown, experts find   Reuters Staff 3 MIN READ WORLD NEWS JULY 21, 2018 / 12:41 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS

 July 20, 2018  298 By: Gregory McCann         In an unlikely story of chance, hard work, shifting local taste and relative international ignorance, Taiwan, just 180 km

Burma Campaign UK <info@burmacampaign.org.uk>; To: 14 Jun at 20:30       Dear Friend Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in Rangoon in December last year after

Trump and Kim agree to work towards the denuclearisation of Korea   North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump shake hands prior to their meeting on

Nagging doubt hang over Trump’s talks with North Korean leader       MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2018     DONALD TRUMP declared that “excitement was in the air” over his

White House says Trump-Kim meeting scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on June 12 (Xinhua)    07:28, June 05, 2018 WASHINGTON, June 4 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump and the top leader of

Kim’s Letter to Trump. The Singapore Summit Is On, Without the Signing of a Formal Peace Agreement? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, June 01, 2018 Region: Asia, USA Theme: US NATO War Agenda

Aung San Suu Kyi: lawyers seek prosecution for crimes against humanity Australian lawyers file private case against Myanmar leader over treatment of Rohingya while she attends summit in Sydney  

China’s Xi calls Trump, urges US, North Korea to begin talks soon Fri Mar 9, 2018 06:32PM Home Asia-Pacific China The combo picture shows Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and

N. Korea says it has no need for nuclear weapons if it has security guarantee RT Published time: 6 Mar, 2018 11:19 Edited time: 6 Mar, 2018 13:38 North Korean

Will Asia’s Rise Mean the Wreckage of Planet Earth?  February 26, 2018  192 By: Cyril Pereira         Asia has industrialized at speed, reducing poverty and raising living

Myanmar Backtracks on Press Freedom  February 15, 2018  465 By: Our Correspondent         Earlier hopes that Myanmar, after decades of dictatorship, would foster an open society and

Vietnam donates a shipment of rice to Cuba   A symbolic handover ceremony took place in the port city of Haiphong, North Vietnam, the same site where during its liberation

Major events in the 10 largest Asia-Pacific economies Posted on January 15, 2017By Kevin LauSpecials In Partnership with the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong, Asia Sentinel

Indonesia Prepares for New International Condemnation   Police ready riflemen for drug executions   Once again, Indonesia’s Police Mobile Brigade Unit is preparing an unknown number of firing squads to

        Is genocide being committed against the Rohingya?   Burma Campaign UK <info@burmacampaign.org.uk>;      Dear Friend   Last week a major report came out which found

Burma elections: how the generals plan to cling on to power      Dear Friend On Sunday 8th November the people of Burma go to the polls   in what

                                                   It is Humanitarian Intervention, Not Interference                 It is Humanitarian Intervention, Not Interference I take the view that ASEAN’s non-interference principle can be reviewed in the

World War II Japan According to the Treaty of Peace with Japan and the bilateral agreements, Japan agreed to pay around ¥1.03 trillion. For countries that renounced any reparations from

                                                              Asian Debt and Oil   ADB says the oil price drop has a positive impact on the region, though will tend to benefit most those who have less immediate

Bringing the Asean Economic Community to the People   Citizen awareness is crucial for the AEC’s success     As the completion of the Asean Economic Community draws closer the

Amnesty International Gives Singapore a Low Grade Posted on March 2, 2015                By                      Our Correspondent                                 Headline, Singapore, Society This will hurt you worse than it will hurt me… Island republic

Modi’s BJP routed in massive AAP Delhi election victory   It is a test case of Modi’s ability to build partnerships with states where the BJP is not in power,

      Jailed for standing on a pavement without government permission              View this email in your browser                                                                                                                       Dear  FriendTake action to free Sein

Burma Campaign UK News Update   Britain must support international investigation into rape in Burma On Tuesday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we delivered more

India’s ladies’ detective agencies: ‘Most people’s marriages were fine until they started using Facebook and WhatsApp’ The social media boom is playing havoc with the Indian urban marriage. There are

Asia India – Love, Sex and Being Inhuman I am not a Psycho-Analyst but shocked by the number of women reportedly raped. There is something very wrong with Indian societies

BURMA CAMPAIGN UK     Free Political Prisoners No Political Prisoner Left Behind Thein Sein broke his promise to release all political prisoners by the end of 2013. No political

SE Asia economic integration could worsen inequality: study   A plan by Southeast Asian countries to establish a European Union-inspired single market next year could worsen inequality and is likely

Political Prisoner Kept In Stocks   Thein Aung, an activist with the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society group who is serving a year-long sentence for taking part in a

Asia India – Love, Sex and Being Inhuman I am not a Psycho-Analyst but shocked, as others are, by the number of women reportedly raped. There is something very wrong with

Indian Police rape woman after she fails to pay bribe’ Woman says she was attacked at a police station in Uttar Pradesh after going there to seek her husband’s release