Sri Lanka’s supreme court has suspended the president’s controversial decision to dissolve parliament and MPs are planning to meet to decide between the two men claiming to be the country’s lawful prime minister. In a verdict hailed as one of the most important in Sri Lankan history, the court ruled on Tuesday evening to suspend the order by the president,… Read more »
Plans to send Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar on Thursday have gathered momentum, with reports of Bangladesh armed forces gathering in the Cox’s Bazar camps and allegations that refugees have been assaulted by the authorities for refusing to cooperate.
The governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar are to push ahead with the repatriation of thousands of Rohingya this week, despite objections by the UN, and against the wishes of the refugees, who spoke of being “terrified” at being sent back.
Sri Lankan lawmakers say they have passed a no-confidence motion against the country’s purported prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, removing the PM and his cabinet from their posts and deepening an unprecedented constitutional crisis in the country. But allies of Rajapaksa – controversially appointed by Sirisena last month after the president sacked the incumbent PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe – say they are… Read more »
A third of girls are unable to attend primary school due to lack of facilities, research by Human Rights Watch reveals Pakistan’s school system is in crisis, with a lack of government facilities creating “education deserts” for poor children, especially girls, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. A third of girls across the country are not attending primary… Read more »
The Indian screen gangster – long a staple in Bollywood – has evolved in recent years, with Netflix and now Amazon Prime tapping in to the country’s interest in crime stories Rolling deep … Mirzapur. Photograph: Amazon The launch of Amazon Prime’s gangster saga Mirzapur marks another milestone in the evolution of the Indian screen gangster. The TV series will… Read more »
As the Hindu festival, Diwali, is celebrated in Delhi, the Indian city is in extreme danger regarding air pollution. The morning after firecrackers were set off, the air exceeded the limit by 66 times and shrouded the city in thick, toxic fumes. The government monitors showed the density of the fine pollutants to be small enough to invade the human… Read more »
Pollution in the Indian capital Delhi exceeded the safe limit by 66 times on Thursday, shrouding the city in toxic fumes the morning after millions of firecrackers were burst for the Hindu festival Diwali. Delhi government monitors showed the density of fine pollutants — small enough to evade the body’s natural defences and breach the blood-brain barrier — reached 1,665 in… Read more »
Repatriations are set to begin on Thursday, but most, if not all, have said they do not want to go back Rohingya refugees are fleeing the camps in Bangladesh, and some have gone into hiding, out of fear of being sent back to Myanmar this week, according to aid groups. Repatriation of the Rohingya is scheduled to begin on Thursday, but it is… Read more »
Southeast Asia is full of problems like any other region, but the similarity of some problems to those in other parts of the world are somewhat surprising. The Governments have corruption and scandals looped into the bases of their systems, social and political issues dominate the news, and the relationships of major powers in the middle east still cause massive… Read more »