The government of Australia has two distinct policies they practice on refugees and asylum seekers attempting to enter their country, either they are turned around in what are called “turn backs”, where the refugees are sent back to the country they were attempting to flee, or they are placed in detention centers on the islands of Papau New Guinea and… Read more »
BBC: South Korean police say they have arrested a man accused of setting fire to the birthplace of the father of embattled President Park Geun-hye. The memorial hall for Park Chung-hee, the country’s former military ruler, was badly damaged in the blaze. Police quoted the suspect as saying the president should have resigned or killed herself, South Korean news agency… Read more »
BBC: Protesters campaigning against the Australian government’s treatment of asylum seekers have breached parliament security for a second day. Two protesters abseiled down Parliament House in Canberra, unfurling a banner saying “close the bloody camps now”. Australia sends asylum seekers who arrive by boat to offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
Al Jazeera: All residents in China’s largely Muslim region of Xinjiang must hand in their passports to local police stations for “examination and management”, according to Global Times, a state-funded newspaper . “Anyone who needs the passport must apply to the police station,” an anonymous police officer in Aksu prefecture told the paper on Thursday, adding that the policy had… Read more »
Al Jazeera: Government troops have killed at least 11 members of a rebel group in the southern Philippines that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the military said, sending local communities fleeing as a battle raged on Sunday. The Maute Group, one of a handful of small armed groups behind years of… Read more »
For years, Hong Kong independence has been on the agenda of many MP’s within its parliament; however, the Communist Party of China has always been averse to the idea. Recently, two Hong Kong MP’s have pulled a massive stunt, purposely misreading their oaths to swear in to office, sneaking in a derogatory slur for China along with a number of… Read more »
Al Jazeera: One person was killed as Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse tens of thousands of protesters who rallied to demand the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta for allegedly insulting the Quran. At least seven people were injured in clashes between demonstrators and police, Jakarta police spokesman Awi Setiyono said on Friday.
Al Jazeera: China effectively barred two elected pro-independence MPs from Hong Kong’s legislature after they deliberately misread their oaths, saying that they could not now be sworn in again. Pro-independence legislators Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching misread their oaths of office for seats on the Legislative Council (Legco) last month. An oath that did not conform to Hong Kong’s law “should… Read more »
Al Jazeera: Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans have taken to the streets of Seoul to demand the resignation of scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye, in one of the largest anti-government protests in decades. On the back of official appeals for calm, police deployed around 25,000 officers on Saturday for the third instalment in a series of weekly mass demonstrations in the… Read more »
BBC: The Myanmar army says it shot dead at least 25 people in Rohingya Muslim villages in restive Rakhine state on Sunday. It said the people killed had been armed with machetes and wooden clubs.