A man armed with a knife on Tuesday attacked a group of four women in a trade center located in the northern Japanese city of Kushiro, local police reported. TOKYO (Sputnik) — One of the injured is in critical condition, according to the local authorities. Read more: sputniknews.com Sputnik International
The Myanmar government has ordered state-run media not to refer to the persecuted Muslim minority group that lives in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the divisive term “Rohingya” during a visit by a United Nations human rights official. The Ministry of Information’s letter dated June 16 instructed official news outlets to describe the 1.1 million […]
Inept employees at a business in China were publicly spanked for their poor performance, reports People’s Daily. In video captured on cellphone, a manager is seen upbraiding staff, lined up on stage before their colleagues at Chinese Rural Commercial Bank. Then he produces a baton and begins spanking them on the buttocks. Though the employees […]
Two digital journalists based in Makassar, in the region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia were attacked on June 5, 2016, while attending an event held by Makassar branch of Islamic Students Alumni (KAHMI Makassar) at Makassar mayor’s house. Global Voices author Arpan Rachman and his wife Icha Lamboge, who is also a journalist, told Global Voices […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Japan is set to begin exporting rice from the country’s Fukushima region to the European Union, starting with the United Kingdom, next month, local media reported. “With the U.K. as a foothold, we hope to expand the sale of prefecture-produced rice to other EU member countries,” the head of the Zen-Noh federation […]
Police have deployed tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an annual LGBT pride demonstration in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul. At least 15 people were arrested during the event, which was banned by the authorities. A group of at least 150 activists holding placards and rainbow flags gathered near Taksim Square to stage an LGBT […]
Flash floods caused by torrential rain at the weekend killed 47 people in the main island of Java, Indonesian authorities said on Monday. Search and rescue teams were clearing debris in several locations in Central Java province after heavy rainfall damaged thousands of homes and forced residents to evacuate, Reuters reports. Sutopo Nugroho, spokesman for […]
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says 14 Nepalese security guards have been killed by a Taliban suicide bomber who targeted their minibus in the Afghan capital Kabul. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said eight others were wounded in the early morning attack on June 20. One wounded survivor of the attack told The Associated Press that his […]
