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New report says continuing persecution makes return of refugees impossible; Myanmar envoy rejects claim, says govt’s Commission of Inquiry is still doing its work.
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In protest at the Rohingya crackdown in 2017, the City of London Corporation has suspended an honor it bestowed on State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi earlier that year.
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Malaysia expects a 50 percent jump in exports of the fruit that some say smells like an “open sewer” by 2030, with big farms backed by big investors spurring growth.
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Business leaders pledged to invest in key industries to calm unstable markets and political unrest, including real estate an tourism, though nothing has been inked yet.
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Sahar Khodayari had disguised herself as a man to attend a soccer match, which is only open to men in Iran. After her arrest, she set herself on fire in protest.
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Official Buddhist authorities oppose criminal charges against the artist, but the complaint shows an emboldened strain of ultra-conservative strain political Buddhism.
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"I would like to study how we will scrap them, not how to retain them," Shinjiro Koizumi said, rebuking safety improvement plans initiated after the Fukushima disaster.
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Ma was spotted at one point welling up with tears as staff put on skits and sang songs, prompting the topic "Jack Ma has cried" to trend on Chinese social media.
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India, prompted by nationalist Narendra Modi loyalists and a deepening trade deficit, pushed for a review of the deal at a trade ministers’ meeting in Bangkok.
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“Energy poverty has been defined as people not having heating. Now that is potentially going to shift, and we could have cooling poverty,” one researcher warns.
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Old-fashioned attitudes about gender roles still persist despite recent economic advances in Indonesia, a country with one of the world’s highest numbers of child brides.
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Deadly, record-breaking winds and stinging rain canceled 160 flights and scores of trains, brought landslides, destroyed one bridge and left 930,000 without power.
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But, the company said, it is disappointed the US refused to provide a full explanation for the “arbitrary and unlawful” detention of the equipment for two years.
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The $110-million project—a first for economic cooperation between Korea and Myanmar—is set to begin construction in Yangon this year and be completed by 2024.
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The groups are calling on all to abstain from internet use on Sept. 30 in solidarity with those living under internet shutdowns in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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