Authorities arrested a 16-year-old girl on Tuesday on an attempted murder charge after the stabbing of another 16-year-old girl, Monica Hawkins, outside the Fountain Gate shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia. Hawkins was allegedly attacked last Friday and she was found injured around 1 p.m. local time (0300 UTC) on a footpath near the shopping centre. […]
Four years ago, a clash between government soldiers and rebels from the Kachin Independence Army in northern Myanmar renewed civil war in Kachin State. The Kachin Independence Organization, formed shortly after Myanmar’s independence from Britain, pursued the path of armed struggle for 33 years from 1961 until 1994, after which they signed a ceasefire agreement […]
Heat is a constant phenomenon across much of India during summertime, but the country’s most recent heat wave has killed over 2,300 people and placed among the top five deadliest in the world. Impacting much of the eastern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the heat wave forced many people indoors. Those without a place […]
The Bangladesh government is planning to recruit hijras, who have officially been recognized as a separate gender in Bangladesh since 2013, as traffic police in an attempt to rehabilitate and offer them new employment. Hijra is a feminine gender identity that some people who are born male or intersex adopt, often labeled as transgender by […]
For the foreseeable future, the Tokyo Metropolitan government has banned hobbyists from flying drones in public parks following a strange protest against nuclear power targeting the Japanese prime minister. The ban on drones in Tokyo public parks, which came into effect on April 28, comes after a drone carrying trace amounts of radioactive substances was […]
On Friday, fishermen rescued over 700 asylum seekers whose boat sank, and the Indonesian Navy reportedly saved 200 more after they were found swimming along the coast of Aceh, Indonesia. Major general Fuad Basya, spokesman for the Indonesian military, said fisherman first noticed the people and a warship was deployed to retrieve them. The rescued […]
A Thai worker in the Philippines was deported after he posted racist and anti-Filipino statements on Facebook. Many cheered the deportation but some also described it as an attack on free speech. Prasertsri Kosin, known as Koko Narak on social media, angered many Internet users in the Philippines after he called Filipinos “pignoys”, “stupid creatures”, […]
Three Thai women believed to have lured into the flesh trade in Bahrain were rescued from a locked room in a restaurant on Saturday. Thai embassy officials and Interpol officers freed the women after Foreign Minister Tanasak Patimapragorn called for action after learning of the women’s fate. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST ONLINE REPORTERS
