ANZAC Day: Our commitment runs deep
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Disasters could cost Asia-Pacific region $160 billion per year by 2030, UN warns
Economic losses to disasters in Asia and the Pacific could exceed $160 billion annually by 2030, the United Nations development arm in the region warned on Tuesday, urging greater innovation in disaster risk financing. Source:…
Myanmar Political Parties Oppose Easing Travel Restrictions on Rohingya
Myanmar’s main opposition political party and members of some minor parties say they oppose the government’s decision to grant freedom of travel to Rohingya Muslims who possess National Verification Cards (NVCs). Union Solidarity and…
USS Ashland returns to Sasebo
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Vietnamese Environmental Activist’s Sentence Upheld on Appeal
An appeals court in Vietnam’s central Nghe An province today upheld a 14-year prison term handed in February to environmental activist Hoang Duc Binh, sending him back to prison to serve his sentence, Binh’s lawyer…
Yagu – An Ultralight Special Ops Armored Vehicle
Plasan unveiled today it’s all-new, lightweight protected vehicle – Yagu at Expo Seguridad event in Mexico City this week. In fact, plasan transformed the 767 kg commercial Arctic Cat Wildcat 4 1000 four-seat all-terrain vehicle…
Uyghurs in XUAR’s Ghulja City Held in at Least Five ‘Political Re-Education Camps’
Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is home to five different “political re-education camps,” according to a Uyghur businessman, who said the facilities are “actually prisons” where detainees…
North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Unusual Activity Observed
On April 21, 2018 the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), quoted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as saying,… The post North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Unusual Activity Observed appeared first on 38…
Tibetan Monk Detained on ‘Cybersecurity’ Charge
A Tibetan monk was detained this month in Qinghai on suspicion of sharing politically sensitive content on social media and is being held at an undisclosed location with his current condition unknown, according to a…
Peking University Student Who Asked About 1998 Rape Case Sent Home
Authorities at China’s prestigious Peking University are moving to silence a public outcry after students called for answers over a decades-old rape-and-suicide scandal they suspect was hushed up by officials at the time.Yue Xin, a…