China's rentable sex dolls have been yanked from the market and the firm responsible for them has apologized, just days after the "shared girlfriends" began strutting their silicon stuff. Chinese sex-products retailer Touch said in a statement Monday that it "will actively explore healthier and more harmonious ways to diversify people's ...
For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic ...
The Bangladeshi prime minister demanded Tuesday that Myanmar allow the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled ...
China is facing heightened threats from foreign infiltration via religion and from the spread of extremism, a top official for religious affairs said Tuesday, after strict new rules were passed to manage religious practice in the country. President Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to ...
Bangladesh has agreed to free land for a new camp to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled recent violence in Myanmar, an official said Monday. The new camp will help relieve some pressure on existing settlements in the ...
Bangladesh's foreign minister said Sunday that genocide was being waged in Myanmar's violence-racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 300,000 Muslim Rohingya to his country. "The international community is saying it is a genocide. We also say it is a genocide," A.H. Mahmood Ali ...
Rohingya insurgents, whose attack on Myanmar security forces last month triggered savage military reprisals, declared a monthlong truce Sunday as refugees continued to flood across the border into Bangladesh only to face scant basic resources, hunger and illness. The Muslim insurgents of the Arakan Rohingya ...
Thousands of Australians dressed in rainbow colors rallied Sunday in support of same-sex marriage ahead of a postal ballot, as polls showed the "yes" campaign's lead shrinking despite backing from the nation's top political leaders. Carrying vibrant posters and calling for marriage equality, the marchers ...
Australia's ruling and opposition parties vowed Friday to work together to introduce laws against hate speech ahead of a contentious postal vote on gay marriage. Same-sex marriage advocates have opposed the voluntary postal ballot that opens next week, arguing it could turn ugly and expose ...
Australians are set to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage, potentially ending years of political stalemate, after the nation's highest court Thursday threw out two challenges to a voluntary postal ballot. There is popular support for changes to the marriage laws, but the issue has dragged ...
Two new reports suggest that violence in western Myanmar fueled by tensions between the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine community and Rohingya Muslims both reflects and reinforces broader anti-Muslim sentiment, and could result in more violence in the country. The International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, ...
Indonesia's president has called for an end to violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state and sent his foreign minister to discuss the plight of Rohingya Muslims with the country's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. There is mounting concern in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, ...
On a remote beach looking out onto the Bay of Bengal, a baby boy lies swaddled in cloth, his face smeared with wet sand. The bodies of nine more children and eight women lie alongside. Another woman and a child have already been buried. The ...
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a western Myanmar village, residents say, as religious tensions in troubled Rakhine state spread to a more ethnically mixed part of the region. Monitors and aid workers worry that violence ...
An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors. The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled Friday in favor of the woman, who argued that ...
