Cops mull demolition of Quiapo shanties Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—Policemen are eyeing the demolition of a row of makeshift houses along a creek in Quiapo's 'Vietnam Village,' an area which gained notoriety for drug-related deals and crimes, following recent reports that bodies of summary execution victims were buried there. | According to Su...
37 senators ask Vietnam's president to free dissident Roman Catholic priest Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years. | In a letter sent through the Vietnamese Embassy, the senators said the Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly had no...
Cops mull demolition of Quiapo shanties Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines—Policemen are eyeing the demolition of a row of makeshift houses along a creek in Quiapo's 'Vietnam Village,' an area which gained notoriety for drug-related deals and crimes, following recent reports that bodies of summary exec...
Interview Asia Times | Missing the point on Myanmar | By Charles McDermid | HUA HIN, Thailand - Burmese writer and historian Thant Myint-U's first trip to Myanmar (in this interview referred to as Burma) was in 1974, for the funeral of his much-revered grandfather U Than...
Child survivor of Khmer prison weeps at trial The Miami Herald | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- A man who was a child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center 30 years ago testified Thursday at the trial of the facility's commander that he hid under a pile of clothes to escape a final purge of inmates before ...
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Amnesty International Report on Asia Gulf News | The Amnesty International Report 2009 documents the state of human rights during 2008, in 157 countries and territories around the world. | It reveals the systemic discrimination...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi blames security breach The News & Observer | YANGON, Myanmar -- Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi blamed a "security breach" for a bizarre visit by an American that put her in a prison courtroom this week and implied that ...
Suu Kyi marks 6 years in detention Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | YANGON, Myanmar - Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was back in court Wednesday on charges she violated the law by sheltering an uninvited American visito...
US call to free Vietnamese priest BBC News | A group of 37 United States senators has written to Vietnam's president calling for the "immediate and unconditional release" of a priest. | Father Nguyen Van Ly was jailed for eight years in 2007 for spreading propaganda against the comm...
37 Senators Seek Freedom For Vietnamese Priest CBS News 37 Senators Ask Vietnam's President To Free Dissident Roman Catholic Priest | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments (AP) Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest servi...
37 senators ask Vietnam's president to free dissident Roman Catholic priest Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Thirty-seven U.S. senators are asking Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to release a dissident Roman Catholic priest serving prison and house arrest terms totaling 13 years. | In a letter sent through the Vietnamese Embassy, the s...
China moves to modernise The Australian | CHINA has seriously cranked up the tempo in its efforts build a more modern economy with three landmark announcements. | They are a long-awaited blueprint to create a national health services system; the first phase of giving its currency, the renminbi, a seat at the global exchange table; and plans to splurge $10billion in the Asian region to he...
Press freedom under attack worldwide The Times Of India | Text: UNITED NATIONS: Journalists worldwide routinely are threatened and intimidated or worse, resulting in a climate of fear that endangers freedom of the press from Latin America to Southeast Asia, a media group reported on Tuesday. | In a new report, the New York-based Committee to Protect ...
