My two-year old daughter looks at me and says, “What happened, Mama?” I can’t get the images of the blood-stained green-and-yellow striped neckties and white uniforms out my mind. I hope she doesn’t see them in my eyes. Minutes later my husband messages, “Just like us at that age. In line at morning assembly. Never […]
As the Hong Kong police removed the last scrap of tarp from the site of the 75-day massive sit-in protest at Admiralty, protesters vowed, “we’ll be back!” More than 200 protesters were arrested on December 11, 2014, after the refused to move from the last of the site. Among the arrested were students, pro-democracy law […]
“Why do you sell it [sex]?” “Please, don’t do that…. I have a two-year old son…. I swear on the Quran, I will leave this job. If you see me here one more time, kill me.” In one video, a middle-aged woman tries to hide her face from the camera as she admits that she […]
Occupy Central protesters, who have camped out for months in the center of Hong Kong, are trying a new tactic in their fight for genuine democratic elections — going shopping. Following dozens of arrests and violent clashes between police and demonstrators on November 25 and 26 at the Mong Kok protest site, activists are urging […]
When a woman in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah lost her son to a Taliban attack on a police checkpoint earlier this week, she took matters — and an AK-47 — into her own hands. Having all but destroyed the Taliban detachment with round upon round of machine gun fire, the woman is now being […]
An earthquake struck central Japan on Saturday, November 22, injuring 41 people and collapsing dozens of farmhouses, destroying roads, and toppling tombstones in the village of Hakuba in Nagano prefecture. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake trapped 21 people under collapsed houses, but all were freed and no deaths were reported. Hakuba in Nagano Prefecture lies about […]
BANGKOK, Nov 15 – A Cambodian businessman of Chinese origin who was kidnapped in Bangkok for ransom early this week has been released safely by kidnappers and is staying in Cambodia, said Pol Col Akaradej Pimolsri, acting commander of the Crime Suppression Division, on Saturday. The businessman identified as Chen Ji was abducted and was […]
MYANMAR, 9 October 2014 (NNT) – Prime Minister and Head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) General Prayut Chan-o-cha said that he had already been reported about the explosion in front of an entertainment outlet in Bukit Bintang, in central Kuala Lumpur this morning which injured at least 14 people including one […]
