Hong Kong actor Simon Yam stabbed at promotional event in southern China
Hong Kong actor Simon Yam was stabbed in the stomach while appearing on stage for a promotional event in southern China on Saturday. A man ran onto the stage and stabbed ...
Rohingya activist calls U.S. ban on Myanmar generals a first step
A formerly imprisoned Rohingya activist said Wednesday that a U.S. ban on Myanmar's top generals was a welcome first step but urged more action to support the long-targeted minority. The State ...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Myanmar commander in chief over Rohingya abuses
The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on the Myanmar military's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders it said were responsible for extrajudicial killings of Rohingya Muslims, barring ...
The Philippine president has signed a bill into law penalizing a range of acts of sexual harassment, including catcalling, wolf-whistling and persistent telling of sexual jokes, which pro-women's groups have accused him of committing. Philippine officials released on Monday a copy of Republic Act 11313, ...
Four children aged 10 to 14 packed fishing rods in a parent's SUV, left a farewell note then drove more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) down Australia's east coast before they were stopped by police the next day, an officer said Monday. When the children ...
Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand ...
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to set up an investigation into mass killings during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs, a step that activists said was long overdue. Duterte's government says police have killed about 6,600 people in shootouts with ...
Broadcaster demands Australia police drop probe of reporters
Australian government assurances that public sector leakers rather than journalists are the targets of raids on two media organizations have come under question as new details have emerged of police efforts to track one reporter's movements and to discover who reporters talk to by ...
Amnesty International seeks international probe to end Philippine anti-drug killings
Amnesty International urgently called for international pressure and an immediate U.N. investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's bloody anti-drug crackdown. The London-based rights watchdog said in a study released Monday that extrajudicial killings in President ...
Wife of detained former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei sues agency
The wife of the former head of Interpol, who was detained in his native China, said on Sunday she had sued the global police cooperation agency for failing to protect his family and complicity in what she called China's "wrongful acts. Grace Meng first publicly ...
North Korea claims Australian student was detained and deported for spying
North Korea has said that an Australian student who it detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said ...
Philippines' Duterte won't let up on deadly drug war despite calls for U.N. probe
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte pledged to continue his war against drugs in his final three years in office despite international calls for a probe into the rising death toll. "Do not destroy my country for the three years that I am still here," Duterte said ...
