Five soldiers and and three members of a terrorist group that is known to be linked to the Islamic State were killed this past Saturday in a firefight on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, just six days after a church bombing took place, also linked to the group, which left 22 dead. The known leader of this group is… Read more »
MANILA (AFP) – A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck at sea off the southern Philippine coast late on Friday (Feb 8), though there were no early reports of damage and the local seismology office said it expected none. The US Geological Survey and the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake struck at 7.55pm, its epicentre about 41km east of… Read more »
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)A Thai political party has nominated the King’s sister as its candidate for prime minister in March elections — an unprecedented move that could upend the political landscape and give the revered monarchy an overt role in politics.Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, the 67-year-old elder sister of King Vajiralongkorn, will run for the Thai Raksa Chart Party (Thai Save The… Read more »
Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, the government of Myanmar denies their armed forces raped Rohingya women and girls in a campaign of ethnic cleansing that forced more than 740,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee the country since late 2017. In a long-delayed submission to the United Nations women’s rights committee this week, Myanmar said there was “no evidence… Read more »
Scores of ethnic-minority villagers have crossed from western Myanmar into Bangladesh in recent days amid fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic Rakhine rebels, according to Bangladesh border guards and an activist. Members of 38 families said they fled their homes fearing attack from military helicopters, Colonel Zahirul Haque Khan, the Border Guards Bangladesh commander in Bandarban district where the group of 136 people… Read more »
I love to see people coming together for a positive reason. Too often, people unite over their dislikes but this is not the case. At least 13 Japanese couples are filing coordinating lawsuits on Valentines day to argue their right to marry whomever they choose. Fortunately enough, being gay is not illegal in Japan, but it is still frowned upon… Read more »
MANILA — Five soldiers and three members of Abu Sayyaf, a militant group linked to the Islamic State, were killed in a gun battle on Saturday on the southern Philippine island of Jolo, six days after a church bombing linked to the group left 22 dead, the military said. The fighting occurred in the jungles around the town of Patikul on Jolo,… Read more »
Just this passed week, China declared that there has been a lot of progress made in the trade talks with the U.S. The trade war started on July 6th, 2018, when China’s Commerce Ministry accused the United States of starting a trade war after tariffs were imposed on Chinese imports. China then decided that in retaliation, they would apply similar… Read more »
NEW DELHI — Rising temperatures in the Himalayas, home to most of the world’s tallest mountains, will melt at least one-third of the region’s glaciers by the end of the century even if the world’s most ambitious climate change targets are met, according to a report released Monday. If those goals are not achieved, and global warming and greenhouse gas… Read more »
BEIJING — At least eight people were killed and seven wounded when a man in a rural part of northwest China attacked fellow residents with a knife before being arrested, the police said Wednesday, as the country was celebrating the Lunar New Year. A brief police account of the attack on Tuesday in semirural Huining County, Gansu Province, left many questions unanswered,… Read more »