My first reaction when I was reading these articles was the fact that these major events are happening all over world and as an American citizen I rarely hear about the tragedies going on all around me. The article that really stuck out to me was the activists in India. I was so interested in it because similar similar movements… Read more »
MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng met with Russian President Vladimir Putin here on Tuesday, vowing to further enhance coordination and cooperation so as to promote bilateral ties.
Japan’s average land prices are up for the first time in 27 years. Back then, investor speculation fueled the gains. These days, it’s the rising number of foreign tourists.
Malaysia’s toppled leader Najib Razak was arrested Wednesday and will be charged over allegations that $628 million linked to state investment fund 1MDB ended up in his personal bank accounts, officials said.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese policymakers on Tuesday called for an early solution to the escalating U.S.-China trade war and warned of the potential damage to global growth in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to slap new tariffs on China.
War crimes court opens preliminary probe into Rohingya expulsions The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced Tuesday that she is launching a preliminary investigation into deportations of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in North Korea Tuesday for his third and possibly most challenging summit yet with leader Kim Jong-un in which he hopes to break an impasse in talks with the United States over the North’s denuclearisation. In what are by now familiar images of the two Korean leaders hugging and exchanging warm smiles, Kim greeted Moon at Pyongyang’s airport…. Read more »
A powerful 6.6-magnitude quake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Thursday, triggering landslides, collapsing buildings, and killing at least two people with several dozen missing. Multiple, large-scale landslides struck the sparsely populated countryside, which was also hit by the edge of a powerful typhoon that surged through Japan earlier this week. Aerial views showed dozens of houses destroyed at the bottom of a… Read more »
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday that two Reuters journalists jailed for investigating a massacre in Rakhine state were not convicted because they were journalists but because they broke the law. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country’s hardline Official Secrets Act while reporting atrocities… Read more »
In Aksu, China, a woman named Zohra is being held in a “re-education camp” as her brother talks about in this article. She and 3,000 other Muslim Uighurs were taken and brought to a military base surrounded by 5-meter high barbed wire fences. All the men had to shave their heads and everyone wears blue uniforms. Tarim, Zohra’s brother, says… Read more »