Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the incumbent Indonesian president, has vowed to push ahead with economic reforms as the country’s election commission said initial results from Wednesday’s election put him in the lead to win a second term.
Final results are not due to be released until July 27, but according to the commission preliminary figures have given [...]
Thousands of Chinese troops are patrolling the streets of Urumqi, capital of the far western Xinjiang region, in an effort to maintain the peace between the city’s ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese.
Clashes between the groups have paralysed the city since Sunday when a street protest by Uighur demonstrators turned into some of the bloodiest ethnic violence [...]
Chinese President Hu Jintao, forced to abandon a G8 summit in Italy by ethnic violence in restive Xinjiang, said that maintaining social stability in the energy-rich region was the “most urgent task”, state television reported on Thursday.
Hu described Sunday’s riots in the regional capital Urumqi, where 156 people were killed and 1,080 wounded when [...]
Riot police on Tuesday fired tear gas to try to break up rock-throwing Han and Uighur protesters who clashed in the capital of China’s Muslim region of Xinjiang two days after bloody clashes killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.
Hundreds of protesters from China’s predominant Han ethnic group, many clutching meat cleavers, metal pipes [...]
At least 700,000 people are now reported to have fled rising flood waters in southern China, as rainstorms continue to drench large areas of the country.
Twenty people are also reported to have died in some of the worst flooding seen in China for more than a decade.
Across several provinces heavy rains have toppled houses, flooded [...]
At least 140 people were dead and more than 800 others injured after weekend violence in China’s far west Xinjiang region, the officials said Monday, according to state-run media.
The death toll was expected to climb, according to a regional government spokesman, as reported by China’s official Xinhua news agency.
Ethnic Uyghur residents in Urumqi, capital of [...]
Three people have been killed and more than 20 injured in violence in the city of Urumqi in China’s restive Xinjiang region, state media says.
Xinhua news agency said police restored order after demonstrators attacked passers-by and set fire to vehicles.
Xinhua did not say how many people were involved or what their motive was.
But activists and [...]
A bomb blast outside a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines has killed five people and injured at least 26 others, officials say.
The military immediately blamed the attack in the town of Cotabato, Mindanao, on a militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
The group has been fighting to establish a separate Islamic state.
One of [...]
The U.S. pointman for sanctions on North Korea begins talks in Malaysia on Sunday, possibly on links banks have to the North’s finances, while a report said Pyongyang may have shot mid-range missiles in a series fired on Saturday.
North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles, South Korea’s defense ministry said, in an act of defiance [...]
Burma’s junta has refused to allow visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Mr Ban was told of the refusal when he held a second round of talks with military leader Gen Than Shwe.
“I’m deeply disappointed,” he told reporters. “I’m very sorry to report to you that this [...]
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