In an alarming revelation, it has come to light that Chinese military hackers infiltrated the classified defense networks of Japan, a vital strategic ally of the United States in East Asia. According to sources, the breach occurred in the fall of 2020 and was not publicly reported until now. The intrusion allowed Chinese cyber operatives […]
News from Bangkok is that Thailand is looking for an overhaul as the people voted out the incumbent military backed government, according to news reports of May 15. Thailand’s opposition made it, trouncing parties allied with the military, setting the stage for r forming a government in to end nearly a decade of conservative, army-backed […]
More people were internally displaced by disasters than by war and conflict, according to a recent report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), an offshoot of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Nearly 61 million new internal displacements, or movements, were registered in 2022, according to a newly released Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) report, a […]
In what appears to be a consistent way of harassing ethnic tribals in Bangladesh, non tribals destroy cash crops and encroach on traditionally held homesteads. Recently, the ethnic Khasi people in northeast Bangladesh have made a police complaint against the management of a tea estate for allegedly destroying a betel leaf plantation, the mainstay of […]
Boats belonging to a Chinese sea militia approached an area where the navies of India and Asean countries were taking part in drills in the South China Sea, says a Reuter’s report on April 9. The two-day sea phase of the Asean-India Maritime Exercise (AIME 2023) began on Sunday with naval ships and aircraft from […]
Pranksters used Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win to spread fake news that the Malaysian president had declared a National holiday to celebrate the feat! For her role as Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng received the Academy Award for Best Actress becoming the first Asian individual to win the […]
Two women journalists in Iran, saw an injustice and did what independent journalists are supposed to do— they reported on it. Now they are in jail for ‘espionage’, a crime that has a death penalty. Reporters Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi reported on Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish Iranian woman, who died Sept. 16 after […]
Human rights observers say that every year as many as 1,000 mostly Christian and Hindu girls and young women in Pakistan are raped and subjected to forced conversions and marriages to Sunni Muslim men. As a result, Pakistan is designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” on the U.S. Department of State’s Religious Freedom Report. […]
An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has left at least 1,000 people dead. The quake struck shortly after 2:30 AM India Time on Wednesday. Heavy rain and strong winds were major hurdles to search and rescue efforts late Wednesday. The massive earthquake killed more than 1,000 and injured more than 1,600, government officials said. The earthquake […]
Search-and-rescue officials in Nepal have located the crash site of a plane carrying 22 people that went missing on Sunday (May 29).An army spokesman posted a photo of the crash site on Twitter. It showed the shattered plane on a mountainside strewn with debris, including what appeared to be a wing of the plane displaying […]
“Jesus is my first love and Taekwondo is my passion!” Standing at just 4 feet 11 inches tall, 67 year old Franciscan sister Linda Sim is a martial arts world champion. Last month, the nun, who is a fifth-Dan black belt holder became the first Singaporean to win a gold medal in the World Taekwondo […]
A Pakistani man who murdered his celebrity sister was freed last week, after a court ruled it was not an “honour killing”, allowing their mother to pardon him under Islamic Sharia law in Pakistan, where a murder victim’s family is able to pardon a convicted killer. Six years ago, in 2016, Waseem Azeem strangled his […]
