France24 At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine state that began in late August, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 620,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for… Read more »
Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – While attention in Asia has been distracted by the North Korean nuclear crisis in the past year, China has continued to install high-frequency radar and other facilities that can be used for military purposes on its man-made islands in the South China Sea, a U.S. think tank said on Thursday. Chinese activity has involved work on… Read more »
France 24 Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to take assistance from the U.N. refugee agency for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Saturday. The two governments signed a pact on Thursday settling the terms for the repatriation process, and the return of the Rohingya to Myanmar is expected to start in two months. Uncertainty… Read more »
From: France24 At least 26 people were killed while several residents were missing in an island province in central Philippines after tropical storm Kai-tak brought heavy rains that triggered landslides, local authorities and media said on Sunday. Kai-tak cut power supplies in many areas, forced the cancellation of several flights, stranded more than 15,000 people in various ports in the… Read more »
Creating tension seems to be a common card that North Korea likes to play. After being inactive for over two months, Kim Jung Un decided to show off his arsenal once more on Tuesday with the firing of more missiles. This has obviously caused alarm in the international community, including here in the United States. Government officials are saying that… Read more »
Source: Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s coast guard on Thursday boarded a North Korean fishing boat near a Japanese island where the crew said they had taken shelter from rough seas, the latest in a series of North Korean vessels in distress drifting into Japanese waters. The wooden boat was towed nearer the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, a… Read more »
Source: Reuters Akihito, who turns 84 on Dec. 23 and has had heart surgery and been treated for prostate cancer, said last year he feared age might make it hard to fulfill his duties. Following are some highlights from Akihito’s career as the first emperor not to be considered divine from the time he ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1989…. Read more »
Source: France24 Pope Francis plunges into a diplomatic minefield next week with visits to under-fire Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh amid mounting outrage over the plight of persecuted Rohingya Muslims. Some 620,000 Rohingya, more than half their total number, have fled from Myanmar‘s Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August as a result of violence that the UN and the United States have described as ethnic… Read more »
Source: Franch24 U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard “brings us closer” to a war the U.S. doesn’t seek. Haley, speaking at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, said that if war comes as a result… Read more »
This article immediately caught my eye mainly because of its relation to recent events here in the United States. However, the two countries protesting differs in the reasoning behind it. Since we all know the reasoning behind the American NFL players kneeling for the anthem, I’m going to focus on the reason the Chinese were booing their national symbol. For… Read more »