YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, said the most senior United Nations official to visit the country this year, after Myanmar was accused of instigating ethnic cleansing and driving nearly 700,000 Muslims to Bangladesh. “From what I’ve seen and heard from people – no access to health services, concerns about protection, continued displacements… Read more »
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s former opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, called on Sunday for Cambodians to boycott a general election set for July 29 if his dissolved party isn’t allowed to take part. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved by the Supreme Court last November at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government, which alleged it was… Read more »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea should not expect rewards from talks with the United States until it takes irreversible steps to give up its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, said on Thursday. Pompeo said the historical analysis was “not optimistic,” when asked at his Senate confirmation hearing if he believed North… Read more »
SASEBO/TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) – Japan on Saturday activated its first marine unit since World War Two trained to counter invaders occupying Japanese islands along the edge of the East China Sea that Tokyo fears are vulnerable to attack by China. In a ceremony held at a military base near Sasebo on the southwest island of Kyushu, about 1,500 members of… Read more »
Myanmar is currently building military bases on the “abandoned” ground where the Rohingya Muslims once lived before they fled to Bangladesh due to ethnic cleansing. The Myanmar government has started construction in many areas where Rohingya used to live, and have even destroyed institutions like places of worship in order to build their military bases. The Myanmar government has also… Read more »
MUARA GEMBONG, Indonesia (Reuters) – Nur Anisa Rahmadani has to wade through shin-deep seawater to get to her primary school in Pantai Bahagia village on the north coast of Indonesia’s Java island. Almost every day, the sea, which used to lap the shore a few kilometers away, floods her schoolyard and classrooms – clear evidence of the threat that Java’s… Read more »
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A volley of insults hurled by ruling party officials in Malaysia at 94-year-old ethnic-Chinese tycoon, Robert Kuok, has exposed a racial and religious divide ahead of elections due by August. Leaders from UMNO targeted Hong Kong-based Malaysian billionaire Robert Kuok in the last two weeks, accusing him of funding a majority-Chinese opposition party to overthrow Najib’s government. The… Read more »
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of families on Vietnam’s typhoon-battered coast will receive free storm-proof houses, which can help pull them out of poverty, government and United Nations officials said. Vietnam is one of 10 countries most affected by climate change, according to the latest annual Climate Risk Index published by the research organization Germanwatch. Coastal residents are… Read more »
YANGON (Reuters) – After driving nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the country, Myanmar’s military is building bases where some of their homes and mosques once stood, Amnesty International said on Monday, citing new evidence from satellite imagery. A harsh security response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents on Aug. 25 sent members of the mostly stateless minority fleeing to Bangladesh… Read more »
While China is a communist country, I don’t see them having an indefinite leader. Xi does in fact want to be a lifetime leader, but eventually I would see him stepping down instead of staying leader until he died. I say this only because he has gotten this far in his ruling as a leader with a numbered term and… Read more »