When one thinks of a refugee crisis, it is usually accompanied by large amounts of people fleeing a dangerous area. This situation with a young girl, is not your usual case associated with a refugee crisis. Still, this particular experience that Alqunun is going through is really upsetting. It brings awareness to unhealthy domestic situations not only in foreign countries,… Read more »
The quake hit at a depth of 60.5km about 173km northwest of Ternate, a city with about 200,000 population. An earthquake with a revised magnitude of 6.6 struck 173km northwest of the city of Ternate, North Maluku, on Indonesia‘s Moluccas Islands, the US Geological Survey has said. The strong quake was felt in the wee hours on Monday local time (GMT: Sunday evening). The epicentre was… Read more »
Teenager seeking passage to asylum in Australia claims she was abused by her family and fears death if repatriated. Thailand’s immigration police chief has announced that the young Saudi woman seeking passage to asylum in Australia will be temporarily admitted to the country for evaluation by the UN refugee agency. Surachate Hakparn told reporters on Monday that 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun would… Read more »
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island’s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai’s comments came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping said nobody could change the fact that Taiwan was part of China, and that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should seek “reunification”.
Malaysia’s king abdicated on Sunday in a historic first for the country that ended weeks of speculation about his future after he took medical leave and reportedly married a Russian ex-beauty queen. Sultan Muhammad V’s decision marks the first time a king has stepped aside during his five-year term in Muslim-majority Malaysia. The national palace confirmed the resignation with immediate effect… Read more »
The environment is probably the most important part of the world that we live in. Even though issues concerning the environment are frequently in the news, they don’t seem to be as popular as other issues such as political and military conflicts. Without the environment our world is doomed. In Malaysia, the Malayan tiger is in danger of becoming extinct…. Read more »
The bodies of six fur seal pups have been found decapitated in a popular bay on New Zealand’s South Island. The 11-month-old seals were discovered on Monday by a tourism operator in Scenery Nook in Christchurch, said the Department of Conservation (DOC). The seals’ heads could not be found and the DOC believe the seals were killed elsewhere before being… Read more »
Tagum, Philippines – Teacher Nerhaya Talledo was on her way to a remote village in the southern Philippines bringing supplies of rice, canned fish and noodles when her van was stopped at a recently-built military checkpoint. A group of doctors and volunteers were in another truck with much-needed medicines. The soldiers told them they couldn’t continue their journey to Sitio Dulyan, an… Read more »
At least 42 people have been injured in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed wooden buildings housing a restaurant and a real estate office in northern Japan, according to police and local media reports. The powerful blast on Sunday in Sapporo, the capital city of Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, shook nearby buildings, broke windows and scattered wooden debris across… Read more »
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Mark Rayan Darmaraj has spent nearly 15 years tracking tigers in Malaysia. But he’s only once seen a Malayan tiger, one of the world’s five remaining subspecies. That was in 2009, and the animal was in agony. Trapped in a poacher’s snare, its right paw was nearly severed. Darmaraj will never forget the cat’s roars of anguish and the… Read more »